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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 thousands of physicians across the country — including more than 400 here in North Carolina – pointed out in an open letter to senators this week, Kennedy is also a delusional conspiracy theorist. Not only does he spread dangerous misinformation on many topics – most notably on the value of vaccinations against disease – he’s also bizarrely pledged to dismantle much of the nation’s vitally important public health infrastructure. The bottom line: As the letter notes: quote “This appointment is a slap in the face to every health care professional who has spent their lives working to protect patients from preventable illness and death.” Senator Thom Tillis, who sits on a committee charged with reviewing Kennedy’s nomination, should heed the physicians’ plea and vote to oppose it. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 regulations and the genius of competition, lift up all public schools. How’s that working out? The state now has more than 200 charters that enroll roughly 8% of students and while some charters – mostly those that attract smart kids from well-off families – are great, as we learned when the review board renewed several charters this week for schools with weak performances and poor grades, it’s a distinct minority. Meanwhile, after three decades, the promised boost to traditional schools remains as illusory as ever. The bottom line: Competition from charters isn’t and was never the recipe for lifting public schools. What’s needed is adequate funding and for the last three decades, all charters have done is help to disguise this hard truth. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 Matters reported, California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago. The chief cause: climate change that has spurred repeated droughts, more lightning and windstorms and created an epidemic of dead trees. Amazingly, however, even as California was burning and just a few months after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, Trump was pledging to expand our nation’s use of fossil fuels and torpedo efforts to grow sustainable energy. The bottom line: Climate change – and its impacts on everything from human health to immigration to the economy — is the existential policy issue of our times. And the politicians who deny this fact willfully endanger us all. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 needed improvements is in the delivery of aid to people impacted by natural disasters. NCORR – the state’s office of Recovery and Resiliency — has long been plagued by big bureaucratic problems that created absurd delays and quality control foul-ups in repairing and rebuilding the homes of Hurricane Florence and Matthew survivors. And by all indications, Stein is determined not to let this happen again. He’s made Hurricane Helene recovery his top priority and named a new, high-powered team to oversee it. The bottom line: Not all of the responsibility here lies with the governor’s office; the legislature needs to dramatically up its game too. But for now, Gov. Stein’s new hurricane recovery effort has gotten off to a very promising start. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
1 NC League of Conservation Voters’ Dan Crawford on building on NC’s environmental accomplishments 14:33
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14:33As 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 rapidly and negatively transforming our planet. Fortunately, all hope is not lost. As North Carolina League of Conservation Voters Director of Governmental Relations Dan Crawford explained in a recent e xcellent op-ed for NC Newsline , North Carolina has made a good deal of encouraging progress on the environmental policy front in recent years and is poised to build on those accomplishments in 2025. And recently we caught up with Dan to learn what some of our priorities should be in the new year. Listen to our full interview with Dan Crawford here.…
1 Duke University Prof. Brandon Garrett on recent commutations and the future of the death penalty 14:01
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14:01There 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 and of color and victims who are white and there are many cases in which the horror of innocent people being sentenced to death has occurred. Both President Biden and former Gov. Roy Cooper lent further momentum to the death penalty’s slow but steady decline recently with a series of death row commutations, and as Newsline learned in a recent conversation with the head of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University Law School, Professor Brandon Garrett, we’ve reached a point here in North Carolina and around the country at which the death penalty’s full abolition is now on the horizon. Click here to listen to our full interview with Garrett.…
1 Jennifer Roberts of the Carter Center’s Strengthening Democracy Project on Jimmy Carter’s legacy 15:45
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15:45Last 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 an array of important areas – promoting democracy and fair elections, combating poverty and disease, championing human rights – Carter worked long, hard, successfully and with great humility to build a better world. And recently NC Newsline got a chance to discuss some of that work with someone who knows it intimately – the co-leader of the Carter Center’s Strengthening Democracy Project in North Carolina, former Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts. Click here to listen to our full interview with Roberts.…
1 Activists to read the names of 60,000-plus voters GOP candidate would disqualify at Tuesday event 1:05
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 election. Griffin claims that voters whose records don’t include a Social Security number or driver’s license number should have been ineligible to vote – even though all were registered (many for decades) and had to show a photo ID to vote. The claim is so farfetched that a Republican Supreme Court Justice called it quote “almost certainly meritless.” Unfortunately, Griffin isn’t giving up, so tomorrow, Tuesday, advocates opposed to the scheme will gather across from the state Legislative Building in Raleigh to publicly read the names of all 60,000-plus challenged voters. The bottom line: The event is scheduled to run from six am to eleven pm and will be live streamed on YouTube . North Carolinians who believe in democracy should check it out. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 with only a small minority of the vote – right now in North Carolina primaries, the threshold is just 30 percent; and it does away with runoff elections, which are expensive to conduct and usually attract a minuscule voter turnout. North Carolina had a brief experiment with ranked choice voting almost 20 years ago, but it was abandoned after a few bumps arose in implementation and that’s too bad. Since then, numerous jurisdictions have clarified and finetuned how it works, and it’s become increasingly popular. The bottom line: Experience shows that ranked choice voting helps assure that all winners have majority support and that candidates appeal to more than just their base. And in our divided times, those would be welcome electoral changes indeed. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 penalty has long been applied unjustly. Not only is it mostly reserved for cases involving defendants who are poor and of color and victims who are white, there are many cases in which the horror of innocent people being sentenced to death has occurred. It’s for these reasons and many others that most of the world and half of U.S. states have now abolished the death penalty and that President Joe Biden and former Gov. Roy Cooper should be congratulated for their recent actions to convert several death penalty sentences to life in prison. The bottom line: The death penalty is fast becoming an obsolete relic. North Carolina would do well to make this official by removing it from its statute books. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 hard work and finding common ground and his record of accomplishment, honesty and effective communication, and his prospects for sustained success should be very high. Unfortunately, despite his sterling credentials, Stein faces an enormous potential roadblock in the Republican leadership of our state’s gerrymandered legislature – a group that remains hellbent on treating him like a hostile enemy to be fought and dominated. Fortunately, as with his predecessor Roy Cooper, it’s a task that Stein appears more than up to handling with his even-keeled commitment to truth-telling and popular policies. The bottom line: His challenges are formidable, but Josh Stein has everything it takes to be a successful – even great — governor. All caring and thinking North Carolinians should wish him well. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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 work. Unfortunately, that’s a step he refuses to take. Instead, Griffin has filed a Hail Mary lawsuit in which he argues that the ballots of more than 60,000 North Carolinians – a group that includes voters who’ve been registered and voted for decades (and even several elected officials) – should be disqualified after the fact. It’s a deeply disturbing and downright bizarre legal argument that would disenfranchise thousands of lifelong state residents and one that also says a lot – none of it good — about the kind of Supreme Court justice Griffin would make. The bottom line: Losing an election is painful — especially when it’s close. But by refusing to acknowledge his defeat, Judge Griffin is wrongfully putting self-interest ahead of the common good. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
1 Newsline political reporter Galen Bacharier on Roy Cooper’s legacy and the new Stein administration 12:02
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12:02A new year is upon us and with it, some important changes in state government. As a result of the November election, North Carolina now has several new leaders serving on its Council of State – most notably a new governor. After eight years in the governor’s mansion and nearly 40 in elected office, Roy Cooper has exited public service – at least for a while – and turned over the reins of state government to his successor, Gov. Josh Stein. But before he departed, Cooper took a bit of a victory lap to celebrate his administration’s accomplishments and to drop some hints about what might be next in his career. And recently, I got a chance to discuss Cooper’s farewell, the possibility that he’ll seek another office next year, and some of the things that North Carolinians can expect from the Stein administration in a conversation I had with my colleague, NC Newsline politics reporter Galen Bacharier. Click here to listen to the full interview. Read more of Galen Bacharier’s reporting here .…
1 Outgoing DHHS Sec. Kody Kinsley on NC’s health and accomplishments from his three years at the helm 28:45
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28:45Gov. Roy Cooper’s second four-year term as our state’s chief executive has come to a close, and if there’s one accomplishment from that period that stands out above all others it was his tireless and ultimately successful campaign to expand the state’s Medicaid program – a move that has saved and will continue to save, quite literally, thousands of lives. Of course, the work to secure Medicaid expansion and its successful implementation was far more than a one-person job. It took hundreds of committed and hardworking state employees to make it happen and the person in charge of that effort on a day-to-day basis was the state’s outgoing Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kody Kinsley. Kinsley served as HHS secretary for the final three years of Cooper’s term, and as NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with him as he prepared leave office, while he’s enormously satisfied with how Medicaid expansion has gone, he’s also proud of some other accomplishments that will make life better for millions of our state’s most vulnerable residents. Click here to listen to the full interview.…
Today — January 6 – marks the anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history. It was four years ago today that a violent mob spurred on by then-President Donald Trump invaded the U.S. Capitol Building in a deadly effort to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election. The insurrection was an act of criminality that sealed Trump’s place in the history books as an enemy of democracy and the Constitution. Amazingly, however, the combination of misinformation and short voter memories has allowed Trump to mount a political comeback and in two weeks he will return to the White House. And for those who care about truth and the rule of law, Trump’s return, his promised pardons of the insurrectionists and stated plans to take revenge on opponents mark new low points in America’s national story. The bottom line: Donald Trump won the 2024 election, but that doesn’t change history or the need for all Americans to remember his past actions and to be more vigilant than ever in resisting future assaults on constitutional government. For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.…
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