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With the North Carolina General Assembly back in Raleigh for the 2026 session, the state of our public schools is once again at the top of t...
State support for preschool education hit record highs for enrollment, quality, and funding in the 2024-2025 school year, according to a new...
It’s been 20 years now since North Carolina started its state lottery and with only a very few exceptions, state lotteries are now an almost...
As state lawmakers return to Raleigh this week for their 2026 legislative short session, there’s one issue that looms as the most important...
The state of North Carolina finds itself in a fiscal policy mess thanks to a series of regressive income tax cuts, there’s no larger or more...
The biggest story in North Carolina politics right now – indeed, it’s a big national story – is the recent primary election defeat of longti...
No world news development of the past few weeks has commanded more attention or spurred greater controversy than President Donald Trump’s de...
Over the last few years, we’ve had several opportunities to chat with former state lawmaker Graig Meyer of Orange County during the four ter...
Even before his fateful and thus far largely unpopular decision to go to war with Iran in late February, both President Donald Trump and his...
Despite its many benefits, few technological developments of the 21st Century have had a larger negative impact on the overall mental health...
One of the most remarkable, and in the minds of many, most shameful, developments in North Carolina public policy over the last three decade...
Unlike many others, North Carolina is not a “ballot initiative” state in which citizens can place constitutional amendments on the ballot by...
It’s been two years now since sports betting became legal in North Carolina, and it’s quickly become one of the most impactful and transform...
If you’re like most average consumers, you’re acutely aware of how your monthly energy bill has been rising steadily in recent years. And a...
If there’s a core public service in North Carolina that’s found itself most consistently in the crosshairs of hostile politicians the last s...
As the U.S. rapidly moves toward the one-month mark in President Trump’s highly controversial war with Iran, the costs – both in human lives...
As the overwhelming majority of North Carolinians are well aware, the economic news of late remains a mix of good and bad news. On the hopef...
How is North Carolina doing in building a workforce with the necessary degrees and job credentials for the 21st Century economy? While the c...
An especially noteworthy 2026 primary election has come and gone, and there were a lot of important and high-profile outcomes – some expecte...
Among the many controversial actions taken by North Carolina public university leaders since Republicans at the state legislature took contr...
There’s been no bigger or more controversial national news story in recent weeks than the Trump administration’s unprecedented immigration c...
As you’ve no doubt noticed, the first several weeks of 2026 have featured a large complement of wintry and bitterly cold weather and that’s...
If there’s a most egregious disconnect right now between state and national policy and what reams of scientific evidence and countless commo...
Early voting is already well underway in this year’s primary election that concludes on March 3, but even as this process plays out, conserv...
During his 2024 campaign to return to the White House, President Trump promised American voters that he would almost immediately deliver a n...
If you celebrated Valentine’s Day over the weekend, chances are you noted that tariffs are driving up the cost of flowers, chocolates, and m...
For those who had hoped the New Year would return a modicum and calm and normalcy to the nation, the past several weeks have been a profound...
For close to 90 years, most American universities and their faculty members have operated under a popular, useful and commonly understood de...
The nation’s persistent affordability crisis continues to leave large majorities of Americans deeply concerned about the state of the countr...
One of the most worrisome trends impacting our nation’s public health right now is the spread of misinformation about the risks and benefits...
North Carolina primary election is just weeks away, and it looks like our state will play host to one of the nation’s most expensive and imp...
Few organizations have had a larger impact on the honesty, transparency and overall health of North Carolina’s government over the few decad...
All across the country, ICE and Border Patrol agents have conducted police-state-style raids and other actions that have terrorized communit...
The headlines are making clear, big and important debates and actions – especially several controversial actions of the Trump administration...
Commemorative services are planned across the state Monday as the nation pauses for a federal holiday in observance of civil rights leader D...
For those who had hoped the New Year might usher in a period of renewed calm in American policy and politics, this first week has been yet a...
As we commence the New Year, few if any subjects raise greater concerns for the wellbeing of Americans than the ongoing global environmental...
It’s common knowledge that the nation’s housing market – especially in growing areas like North Carolina – has become prohibitively expensiv...
The rising cost of housing continues to be a huge problem for millions of Americans. But, of course, as just about any average person can al...
Few areas of modern American popular culture have undergone greater or more rapid changes in recent years that college sports. Thanks to a s...
In our fast-changing world, few technological developments of recent years have had a bigger impact on young people than the emergence of in...
The affordability crisis plaguing the American economy continues to grow more serious, and if there is a most visible sector of the economy...
When veteran journalist and advocate Bob Phillips took over as executive director of Common Cause of North Carolina a quarter century ago, h...
It continues to be one of the great scandals of modern America that in the world’s richest nation, millions of people – including an especia...
It’s now been nearly 15 months since the worst storm in modern times to hit western North Carolina – Hurricane-turned-Tropical Storm Helene...
The rising cost of housing continues to be a huge problem for millions of Americans. But, of course, as just about any average person can al...
It’s common knowledge that the nation’s housing market – especially in growing areas like North Carolina – has become prohibitively expensiv...
This story was produced by WHRO Public Media . Sign up for their newsletter here . In recent months, news of Outer Banks homes falling into...
The record federal government shutdown may be over, but the dysfunction to which it gave rise and helped spur continues to plague North Caro...
One of the top news items at the start of the holiday season here in North Carolina has been the Trump administration’s latest anti-im...