Videos
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Video: ICE and Border Patrol’s invasion of Charlotte isn’t ‘law and order’
Senior Editor Billy Ball explains the BIG difference between local cops and agents of ICE and the Border Patrol.
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Billy Ball Explains NC: Who’s really getting food stamps in NC?
Every Wednesday, NC journalist Billy Ball unpacks the most important stories in NC and corrects the bad information.
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Video: Hiking Waterrock Knob and talking about albeism
Cardinal & Pine’s Jennie Ventures takes a hike at Waterrock Knob and talks about how ableism shows up in our society.
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Billy Ball Explains NC: Rigging the 2026 election through gerrymandering
In the latest “Billy Ball Explains NC,” we take a look at what we can do to combat gerrymandering in NC and across the US.
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Video: What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD?
October being ADHD Awareness Month, Cardinal & Pine contributor “Jennie Ventures” took her family to visit Robert Lake Park in Montreat, NC.
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Video: Republicans believe ‘your vote should be worthless,’ NC Democrat says
The top NC Democrat in the state House of Representatives had some sharp words to say about Republicans’ new gerrymander.
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Video: A mom asked NC Republicans to fund Medicaid. They went home instead.
A NC mom, who has a child with a severe disability, tells her story after state lawmakers left Raleigh without filling a Medicaid shortfall.
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Video: She left the US after 7 months in ICE detention. Here’s why she still wants to come back.
After 7 months in ICE detention, a nursing student from NC talks about wanting to return home.
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Video: Book bans in NC — ‘And Tango Makes Three’
As a former K–5 teacher, a mom, and a Black woman in NC, I know the power of access. Historically, people who look like me were denied the right to read and write. That’s why book bans feel personal.
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Video: Gen Z leader in NC says her peers are exhausted, but not checked out
Cardinal & Pine talks with Hannah Preston of Influence NC about Gen Z and politics.
























