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Every weekday, NC Newsline editor and veteran North Carolina policy observer Rob Schofield offers a 60-second take on the key policy issues that impact North Carolinians.
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GOP Supreme Court candidate’s voter purge demands turn farcical
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In his infamous 2020 post-election phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State, Donald Trump demanded that Brad Raffensberger “find” him the votes he needed to reverse Joe Biden’s election win. Today, four years later, it feels like we’re watching a rerun in the actions of Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. In a ser…
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GOP Supreme Court candidate’s voter purge demands turn farcical
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Judge Jefferson Griffin (Photo: State Court of Appeals) In his infamous 2020 post-election phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State, Donald Trump demanded that Brad Raffensberger “find” him the votes he needed to reverse Joe Biden’s election win. Today, four years later, it feels like we’re watching a rerun in the actions of Republican North Caro…
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Climate change is making more and more of the nation uninsurable
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For those Americans (like President Trump) who cling desperately to the notion that climate change is a hoax concocted by tree-hugging liberals bent on controlling everyone else’s life, the nation’s insurance industry is delivering a message. As Alex Brown reported for NC Newsline last week, more and more states are being forced to establish and ex…
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Climate change is making more and more of the nation uninsurable
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PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 13: An aerial view of a fire truck (LOWER L) near homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 13, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. Multiple wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds continue to burn across Los Angeles County, with some cont…
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Study shows rural, conservative areas have the most to lose if GOP slashes Medicaid
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Some North Carolina doctors worry about how medical care might change under a second Trump administration. (Photo: Getty Images) It remains one of the most striking aspects of today’s health care policy debate that it’s rural and mostly conservative communities that tend to benefit the most from social safety net programs championed by Democrats. T…
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Study shows rural, conservative areas have the most to lose if GOP slashes Medicaid
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It remains one of the most striking aspects of today’s health care policy debate that it’s rural and mostly conservative communities that tend to benefit the most from social safety net programs championed by Democrats. This fact was brought home again in the recent report from Georgetown University researchers, who found that residents of the nati…
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Eliza Sweren-Becker of the Brennan Center on Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to discard 60,000+ ballots
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The big political news story in North Carolina right now revolves around the yet unsettled election for a seat on state Supreme Court. Multiple counts confirmed that the incumbent justice, Democrat Allison Riggs, was the narrow winner over Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin. But more than two months after Election Day, Griffin has yet to conce…
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ITEP Senior Analyst Marco Guzman on the big hits to the economy that mass deportation could bring
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Among the actions that the new Trump administration is expected to make a top priority in the coming days is an aggressive new mass deportation initiative targeting the nation’s millions of undocumented immigrants. It’s a plan that may sound superficially appealing to many Americans, but as we learned in a recent conversation NC Newsline had with M…
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NC Budget and Tax Center researcher Logan Rockefeller Harris on the the 2025 Living Income Standard
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For 30 years now, the nonpartisan North Carolina Budget and Tax Center has been our state’s preeminent research nonprofit in the fields of fiscal and economic policy, and in recent years one of its signature products has been the biennial Living Income Standard report. The report documents what it actually costs for families of various sizes to mak…
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MLK will be remembered and celebrated long after Trump
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo: Nobel Foundation) Today is King Day – the day we remember and celebrate the life of one of our nation’s greatest heroes — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What’s more, oddly enough, this year, it’s also inauguration day for Donald Trump as he returns to the White House for his second term. And it’s d…
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MLK will be remembered and celebrated long after Trump
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Today is King Day – the day we remember and celebrate the life of one of our nation’s greatest heroes — the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What’s more, oddly enough, this year, it’s also inauguration day for Donald Trump as he returns to the White House for his second term. And it’s difficult to think of two leaders or historical figures who diff…
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Sen. Tillis should heed the call of NC physicians to reject RFK, Jr. as HHS secretary
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images) President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – is an interesting fellow who’s sometimes espoused good ideas. Though he often contradicts himself, Kennedy has generally defended reproductive freedom and has long blasted giant food and …
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Sen. Tillis should heed the call of NC physicians to reject RFK, Jr. as HHS secretary
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President-elect Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – is an interesting fellow who’s sometimes espoused good ideas. Though he often contradicts himself, Kennedy has generally defended reproductive freedom and has long blasted giant food and chemical corporations for endangering public health. But as thou…
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Latest review board actions reveal once more how NC’s charter school experiment has failed
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North Carolina continues to expand charter schools. Image: AdobeStock It’s been almost 30 years since North Carolina started allowing charter schools, and as the actions of the state Charter Schools Review Board showed again this week, that experiment has been a wasteful failure. When they were first established, supporters assured us charters woul…
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Latest review board actions reveal once more how NC’s charter school experiment has failed
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It’s been almost 30 years since North Carolina started allowing charter schools, and as the actions of the state Charter Schools Review Board showed again this week, that experiment has been a wasteful failure. When they were first established, supporters assured us charters would be “incubators of innovation” that would, because of looser regulati…
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As Trump spouts nonsense, the climate change disasters just keep on coming
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Like a three-pack-a-day smoker who blames their chronic cough on everything but their addiction, President-elect Donald Trump continues to embrace an absurd and criminally irresponsible brand of denialism on the subject of climate change. This hard truth was exposed yet again by the latest horrific California brushfires. As the news outlet Cal Matt…
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As Trump spouts nonsense, the climate change disasters just keep on coming
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A person uses a garden hose in an effort to save a neighboring home from catching fire during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Like a three-pack-a-day smoker who blames their chronic cough on everything but their addiction, President-elect Donald Trump continues to embrace an absurd and cri…
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Gov. Stein’s new hurricane recovery effort gets off to a promising start
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Gov. Josh Stein (right) inspects a trailer on a recent visit to western North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of the governor's office.) In many important areas, North Carolina’s new governor, Josh Stein, is wisely following in the footprints of his predecessor, Roy Cooper. In critical areas like public education, environmental protection, and reproducti…
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Gov. Stein’s new hurricane recovery effort gets off to a promising start
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In many important areas, North Carolina’s new governor, Josh Stein, is wisely following in the footprints of his predecessor, Roy Cooper. In critical areas like public education, environmental protection, and reproductive freedom, Cooper was a champion of just and common sense policies. One area, however, in which the new administration can make ne…
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NC League of Conservation Voters’ Dan Crawford on building on NC’s environmental accomplishments
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As has been the case for several years now, at the start of 2025, no single issue poses a greater threat to the long-term well-being of North Carolinians – and indeed, all Americans — than the global climate crisis. From the economy to public health to natural disasters to immigration to species extinction, global warming from fossil fuel use is ra…
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Duke University Prof. Brandon Garrett on recent commutations and the future of the death penalty
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There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. Not only is it hugely and uniquely expensive to apply and proven to be of no use in deterring crime, but stacks of evidence also confirm it has long been applied unjustly. Tragically, the death penalty is mostly reserved for cases involving defendants who are poor an…
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Jennifer Roberts of the Carter Center’s Strengthening Democracy Project on Jimmy Carter’s legacy
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Last week the nation paused to honor the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter. Carter died December 29, 2024 at the age of 100, and while opinions vary as to how successful his one term in the White House was, there’s a widespread consensus that no president in American history enjoyed a more productive or successful post-presidency. In…
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Activists to read the names of 60,000-plus voters GOP candidate would disqualify at Tuesday event
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A mobile billboard circles the legislative building on January 8, 2025 highlighting Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to throw out thousands of ballots in the state Supreme Court race. (Photo by Christine Zhu) North Carolina is in the national news again and, as with past embarrassments like the infamous bathroom bill and efforts to ban talk of sea-level…
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Activists to read the names of 60,000-plus voters GOP candidate would disqualify at Tuesday event
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North Carolina is in the national news again and, as with past embarrassments like the infamous bathroom bill and efforts to ban talk of sea-level rise, it’s not a flattering story. This time, it’s Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin’s effort to retroactively throw out 60,000-plus ballots cast by registered voters in the 2024…
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Ranked choice voting: worth another look in NC
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Image: https://www.betterballotnc.org/ North Carolina elections have been shown to be fair, efficient and honest, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t always room for improvement. And one important change our state would do well to take a second look at is ranked choice voting – a system in which voters rank candidates in their order of preference. Th…
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Ranked choice voting: worth another look in NC
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North Carolina elections have been shown to be fair, efficient and honest, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t always room for improvement. And one important change our state would do well to take a second look at is ranked choice voting – a system in which voters rank candidates in their order of preference. This assures that candidates can’t win wi…
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The death penalty is slowly fading away
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Demonstrators marched in front of the governor's mansion asking the governor to commute the death sentences of those on death row. (Photo: NC Newsline/Kel Lyons) There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has demonstrated, the death penalty is hugely and uniquely expensive to app…
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The death penalty is slowly fading away
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There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has demonstrated, the death penalty is hugely and uniquely expensive to apply and doesn’t deter crime –indeed, there’s compelling evidence it spurs more of it. What’s more and more importantly, stacks of evidence now confirm the death pe…
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Gov. Josh Stein is primed for success – if legislative leaders will only do their job
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Josh Stein is formally sworn in as North Carolina's next governor. (Photo: Screengrab from PBSNC video stream) Few governors in North Carolina history have been better prepared for the job than our state’s new chief executive, Josh Stein. Not only has Stein spent much of his professional career in elected office, but he was also raised in a family …
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Gov. Josh Stein is primed for success – if legislative leaders will only do their job
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Few governors in North Carolina history have been better prepared for the job than our state’s new chief executive, Josh Stein. Not only has Stein spent much of his professional career in elected office, but he was also raised in a family that preached and lived the value of public service and social justice. Now add his demonstrated commitment to …
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It’s long past time for GOP Supreme Court candidate to concede
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North Carolina's state Supreme Court (Photo: Clayton Henkel) It’s now been nine weeks since the November election and nearly a month since recounts confirmed that incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs narrowly defeated her Republican challenger, state Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin. As such, it’s long past time for Griffin t…
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It’s long past time for GOP Supreme Court candidate to concede
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It’s now been nine weeks since the November election and nearly a month since recounts confirmed that incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs narrowly defeated her Republican challenger, state Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin. As such, it’s long past time for Griffin to concede and allow the state’s high court to get back to wor…
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