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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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Unemployment insurance bump is welcome but not nearly enough
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1:05Republican legislators seldom boost programs that help vulnerable people so, on one level, it’s welcome news that a state House committee advanced a bill this week to increase North Carolina’s maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit. Under the bill, the max weekly benefit would rise from the laughably insufficient current level — $350 — to th…
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Legislature bears responsibility for impending teacher and state employee premium hikes
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1:04North Carolina General Assembly (File Photo) North Carolina public school teachers and state employees are badly underpaid. The chief cause: repeated and regressive tax cuts enacted by Republican legislators that have caused state revenues (as a share of the economy) to plummet over the past 15 years. Today, even states like Alabama and Mississippi…
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Legislature bears responsibility for impending teacher and state employee premium hikes
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1:04North Carolina public school teachers and state employees are badly underpaid. The chief cause: repeated and regressive tax cuts enacted by Republican legislators that have caused state revenues (as a share of the economy) to plummet over the past 15 years. Today, even states like Alabama and Mississippi do a better job of funding government. Amazi…
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Hegseth’s revival of Fort Bragg name is too clever by half
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1:05Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signs a memorandum to rename Fort Liberty, N.C., to Fort Roland L. Bragg, while aboard a military aircraft en route to Germany, Feb. 10, 2025. Credit: Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza, DOD The Trump administration is making a mockery of a well-designed system the U.S. government has long employed for nam…
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Hegseth’s revival of Fort Bragg name is too clever by half
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1:05The Trump administration is making a mockery of a well-designed system the U.S. government has long employed for naming important places for historical figures. The latest example: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s too-clever-by-half move to rename North Carolina’s Fort Liberty Army base as Fort Bragg. The name was changed from Bragg to Liberty j…
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Experts to legislature: Please fund our public schools
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1:05Photo: Getty Images The more state legislators avert their eyes and ears and pretend not to notice, the more that North Carolina public education experts continue to issue new and urgent pleas to adequately fund our public schools. Two of the most important voices weighed in with new entreaties in just the last few days. Both the Public School Foru…
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Experts to legislature: Please fund our public schools
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1:05The more state legislators avert their eyes and ears and pretend not to notice, the more that North Carolina public education experts continue to issue new and urgent pleas to adequately fund our public schools. Two of the most important voices weighed in with new entreaties in just the last few days. Both the Public School Forum of North Carolina …
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Congresswoman Deborah Ross on the tumultuous first weeks of the new Trump administration
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12:55Whether it was his intention or not, Donald Trump has undoubtedly caused more havoc in the first few weeks of his second administration than any president in U.S. history. The sheer volume of orders, directives, memos, and PR stunts — many of them contradictory and half-baked — has given rise to an atmosphere of widespread fear and anxiety. Fortuna…
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NC NAACP’s Deborah Dicks Maxwell on Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn the election he lost
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11:17Few political controversies in North Carolina loom larger right now than the effort of Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin to overturn the election he lost last fall to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs. Griffin still wants the ballots of more than 60,000 disproportionately Black and young voters thrown out on technical grou…
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Dr. Lauren Fox of the Public School Forum on NC’s top education issues
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14:20At the start of the 2025 state legislative session, few needs in our state stand out as more obvious and dire than the ones we see in our public schools. From teacher pay to facilities to student well-being to the way we track performance in and demand accountability from the schools we fund, public education in our state continues to reel from alm…
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NC legislature should stay in its own lane
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1:05After having successfully gerrymandered their way to complete control of the state legislature over the last 15 years, you’d think North Carolina Republican lawmakers would be sure enough of themselves to at least occasionally countenance other voices. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong. The latest ridiculous example: a bill introduced last week that wo…
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NC legislature should stay in its own lane
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1:05Attorney General Jeff Jackson said he joined a legal challenge to the federal funding freeze out of concern for “widespread and immediate damage” to North Carolinians. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar) After having successfully gerrymandered their way to complete control of the state legislature over the last 15 years, you’d think North Carolina Republic…
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Throwing gas on a fire: GOP lawmakers look to worsen our state’s gun violence crisis
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1:05(Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor) Gun violence is an epidemic in our society that kills almost 50,000 Americans every year, including close to 2,000 in North Carolina alone. Last year, the U.S. experienced more than 500 mass shootings. No other modern nation comes even close to these frightening rates. And yet, amazingly, over at the Nor…
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Throwing gas on a fire: GOP lawmakers look to worsen our state’s gun violence crisis
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1:05Gun violence is an epidemic in our society that kills almost 50,000 Americans every year, including close to 2,000 in North Carolina alone. Last year, the U.S. experienced more than 500 mass shootings. No other modern nation comes even close to these frightening rates. And yet, amazingly, over at the North Carolina General Assembly, Republican stat…
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Photo: Getty Images/istock The Trump administration’s new and ham-handed anti-immigration policies are terrorizing innocent kids and disrupting our schools. In numerous places, U.S. citizen children who’ve lived here their entire lives go to school each day fearing their non-citizen parents may not be at home when the school day ends. As NC Newslin…
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The Trump administration’s new and ham-handed anti-immigration policies are terrorizing innocent kids and disrupting our schools. In numerous places, U.S. citizen children who’ve lived here their entire lives go to school each day fearing their non-citizen parents may not be at home when the school day ends. As NC Newsline reported this week, teach…
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NC conservative group embarrasses with fawning treatment of pardoned insurrectionist
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1:04Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election. (Photo: Getty Images/Brent Stirton) As 82nd Airborne veteran Scott Peoples put it in a recent op-ed for NC Newsline, President Trump’s decision to pardon participants in the deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection — even those who violently assaulted police o…
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NC conservative group embarrasses with fawning treatment of pardoned insurrectionist
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1:04As 82nd Airborne veteran Scott Peoples put it in a recent op-ed for NC Newsline, President Trump’s decision to pardon participants in the deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection — even those who violently assaulted police officers — was a low point in the history of the American presidency. Even many conservative Trump supporters were appalled. Sadly, …
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Stein, lawmakers should move quickly to tie off the work of Rebuild NC
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1:05One of Gov. Josh Stein’s best actions since taking office was to make rebuilding hurricane ravaged western North Carolina a top priority, and putting a new office with new leaders in charge. Unfortunately, as NC Newsline reported repeatedly in recent years, the state’s previous disaster recovery office — known as NCORR or Rebuild NC — chalked up a …
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Stein, lawmakers should move quickly to tie off the work of Rebuild NC
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1:05Pryor Gibson, interim director of ReBuild NC, testifies in front of North Carolina lawmakers on the state of the hurricane homebuilding program on Jan. 30, 2025. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline) One of Gov. Josh Stein’s best actions since taking office was to make rebuilding hurricane ravaged western North Carolina a top priority, and putting a…
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Lynn Bonner on the ongoing efforts of a NC Supreme Court candidate to have 60,000+ ballots discarded
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10:21The big political story in North Carolina right now continues to revolve around the unsettled election for a seat on state Supreme Court. Multiple recounts confirmed that the incumbent justice, Democrat Allison Riggs, was the narrow winner over Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin, but nearly three months after Election Day, Griffin has yet to c…
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Natural Resources Defense Council’s Drew Ball on Trump’s plans to end wind energy projects
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11:57Wind energy. Whether it’s offshore or on land, wind energy is a booming and enormously promising industry that can play a big role in ending our heroin-like addiction to fossil fuels. What’s more, because of its geography, North Carolina is extremely well-positioned to benefit from its growth. Tragically and bizarrely, however, the Trump administra…
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GOP Supreme Court candidate remains in hiding while assaulting our democracy
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1:05Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin is seeking one of the most important and powerful public offices in North Carolina — a seat on the state Supreme Court. He’s also taken the extraordinary step of trying to overturn the election he lost for that seat last November by having more than 60,000 ballots thrown out. Thanks to his actions, North Car…
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GOP Supreme Court candidate remains in hiding while assaulting our democracy
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1:05Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin (File photo) Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin is seeking one of the most important and powerful public offices in North Carolina — a seat on the state Supreme Court. He’s also taken the extraordinary step of trying to overturn the election he lost for that seat last November by having more than 60,00…
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Trump: irresponsibly playing games with people’s lives and livelihoods
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1:05Throughout 2024, Democrats and many Republicans warned that if Donald Trump got back in the White House, he would debase the presidency by seeking personal vengeance on enemies, empowering unqualified toadies to lead important public agencies, and issuing half-baked edicts that ignored established law and common sense. Now, after less than two week…
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Trump: irresponsibly playing games with people’s lives and livelihoods
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1:05President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Throughout 2024, Democrats and many Republicans warned that if Donald Trump got back in the White House, he would debase the presidency by seeking personal vengeance on enemies, empowering…
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Once again, Sen. Thom Tillis threatens to do the right thing…and then chickens out
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1:05Sen. Thom Tillis (File Photo: Screengrab from C-Span) North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis has a longstanding reputation for giving hints he’ll do the right thing on important issues and then, when the chips are down, chickening out and caving into pressure from the far right. Sadly, it happened again last week as the Senate considered the nomination…
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Once again, Sen. Thom Tillis threatens to do the right thing…and then chickens out
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1:05North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis has a longstanding reputation for giving hints he’ll do the right thing on important issues and then, when the chips are down, chickening out and caving into pressure from the far right. Sadly, it happened again last week as the Senate considered the nomination of Fox News talking head Pete Hegseth, to lead the De…
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In today’s world of politics in which the goal of so many politicians seems to be about converting their elected office into a gig as a highly paid lobbyist or TV pundit, Wake County State Rep. Joe John was a welcome exception. John, who passed away last week after a battle with cancer, was that rare public official — by modern standards anyway — w…
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Rep. Joe John (Wake Co.) (Photo: NCGA) In today’s world of politics in which the goal of so many politicians seems to be about converting their elected office into a gig as a highly paid lobbyist or TV pundit, Wake County State Rep. Joe John was a welcome exception. John, who passed away last week after a battle with cancer, was that rare public of…
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Farley, Boliek issue predictable and misguided directives on DEI
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1:05Labor Commissioner Luke Farley and State Auditor Dave Boliek (File photos) Among the many signs that illustrate just how far off track the modern political right has veered, the obsession with destroying diversity, equity and inclusion programs is among the most ridiculous. North Carolinians were reminded of this truth again last week when two newl…
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1:05Among the many signs that illustrate just how far off track the modern political right has veered, the obsession with destroying diversity, equity and inclusion programs is among the most ridiculous. North Carolinians were reminded of this truth again last week when two newly elected Republicans — state Labor Commissioner Luke Farley and Auditor Da…
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