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Meet the woman running for NC Ag commissioner to empower rural residents
North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture candidate Sarah Taber plans to revive the state’s agricultural economy through common-sense business practices, infrastructure, and improvement of farm labor, all things that resonate with her rural constituents.
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Biden and Harris tout healthcare expansion in Raleigh visit
President Biden and Vice President Harris visited Raleigh Tuesday to tout their success in lowering healthcare costs and expanding access to health insurance.
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Supreme Court hears oral arguments in major abortion access case
Tuesday’s hearing marks the first time the right-wing Court has listened to a case relating to abortion access since their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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The rare birds that call Roanoke River Wildlife Refuge home
Many species of flora and fauna call Roanoke Wildlife Refuge home, including these 10 rare birds. So if you’re birding in Bertie County, keep an eye out!
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Trump’s threats to repeal the Affordable Care Act would devastate North Carolina
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to healthcare for millions of Americans. A second Trump presidency could end that progress, especially in rural North Carolina. Fourteen years ago, on March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. Despite the law’s impact in giving millions of Americans health coverage for…
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VIDEO: NC public school teacher says “go harder”
This🔥🔥 Taylor Evans, a public school teacher in Vance County, NC, had this advice for North Carolinians who are steamed about the chronic underfunding of public schools: “Go harder.” Evans was one of many educators who gathered over the weekend at a #DefendBlackHistory summit in Charlotte, organized by the advocacy group @colorofchange. Public schools in…
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VIDEO: An Alabama Court Ruling Threatened IVF Treatment. Here’s Why It Matters in NC.
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that embryos are children and have all the protections under state law afforded to an 8-year old. That means, the justices wrote, that freezing embryos and then later discarding them, a necessary part of the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), amounts to murder. The ruling, which included…
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Higher insurance rates could crush NC homeowners
North Carolina homeowners and renters could be hit with higher insurance rates later this year, and in the state’s coastal counties like Cartaret, New Hanover, and Brunswick, those rates could be astronomically higher. In January, the North Carolina Rate Bureau (NCRB) proposed an average insurance rate increase of 42.2% statewide, which was rejected by Commissioner…
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80% of House Republicans support plan to cut Social Security, ban abortion, and restrict IVF
The Republican Study Committee’s proposed budget calls for cutting Social Security and Medicare and banning abortion after 15 weeks nationwide. It would also pose a threat to IVF and slash funding for rental assistance and programs that help build housing, and more.
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VIDEO: What Was the Most Important Part of the 2021 Child Tax Credit?
WATCH: Charlotte’s Stacy Staggs says the government should work for its people! 💪🏻 We talked to Staggs about a new push to restore the pandemic-era child tax credit payments. The temporary reform proposed by President Biden cut childhood poverty in half during the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal lawmakers did not extend the tax credit, but there’s…
