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Helene survivor: It’s time to move beyond market-based approaches to climate change
If you’re a millennial like me, climate anxiety is practically in your DNA. I’ve lived through my fair share of climate change-induced disasters, and 2024’s Hurricane Helene was just the latest and gravest — though most certainly not the last or worst I’ll ever experience in my lifetime. And I consider myself lucky: ma
Motivated older voters could shape NC’s 2026 US Senate race, poll finds
Older voters typically have the highest turnout in elections.
A federal lawsuit challenges new NC requirements for absentee ballot returns
Three North Carolina nonprofit organizations and two voters are suing over new absentee ballot requirements that put votes in jeopardy of being discarded. The North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, Down Home North Carolina, and two voters filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesd
Voters to decide fate of state taxes this fall
This fall, voters in at least nine states will decide whether to cut, cap or raise taxes through ballot measures that will give them a direct hand in steering state tax policy in a conservative or progressive direction. Some states, such as California, will weigh whether to tax — or untax — their wealthiest residents.
Medicaid is about to end in NC for thousands of refugees
Starting Oct. 1, about 14,000 people living in North Carolina who were admitted to the United States for humanitarian reasons will no longer have comprehensive health insurance coverage through Medicaid. The provision ending most Medicaid coverage for refugees and people granted asylum was in the giant bundle of safety
North Carolina high schoolers say schools feel safer, but experts want more school resource officers
Dr. Ellen Essick said there is a lot of good news about mental health in the 2025 North Carolina High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey. But there are areas that clearly need attention when it comes to the overall well-being of North Carolina’s young people. Essick, section chief for N.C. Healthy Schools in the state [
Critics say NC’s property tax amendment could do more harm than good
There will be much at stake in November when North Carolinians go to the polls. The state has one of the nation’s most closely-watched U.S. Senate races. A win by former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper — a Democrat matched against Michael Whatley, former chairman of the Republican National Committee — could help change
Trump DOJ uses case of Utah letter carrier to highlight allegations of voting fraud
Federal officials charged a Utah letter carrier Tuesday with throwing 300 primary ballots in a church parking lot dumpster, an incident that a top U.S. Justice Department official said made the case for stricter regulations of voting. The prosecution of Damon Matai Seei, of Payson, Utah, showed “voting fraud is real,”
NC 12 detour opens after storm damage leaves hundreds waiting for Outer Banks ferry
Dare County officials declared a state of emergency for Hatteras Island on Saturday, barring visitors and non-resident property owners from entering.
CNN, MS Now, Politico sue Trump over White House ban
WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump has barred from entering the White House filed a lawsuit against the administration on Monday. CNN, MS Now and Politico wrote in a joint statement the suit is intended “to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the governmen
Lindsay Clancy case could spur legislative action on postpartum depression, psychosis
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children i
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