Month: May 2023
“State of Emergency.” It’s an official proclamation triggering emergency powers that we’re all too familiar with after COVID. But this week, Gov. Roy Cooper added a new definition to “state of emergency” – one that’s not an official proclamation but a means of communicating urgency over what he perceives as poor policymaking. It began Monday morning with…
Read MoreThe room fell quiet as the stalwart Senator Brent Jackson quietly stepped up to the podium to announce the North Carolina State Senate’s budget proposal late Monday afternoon. What he described in his remarks is a project, more than six years in the making called NCInnovation – a not-for-profit corporation most reporters in the room didn’t know existed.…
Read MoreThe room fell quiet as the stalwart Senator Brent Jackson quietly stepped up to the podium to announce the North Carolina State Senate’s budget proposal late Monday afternoon. What he described in his remarks is a project, more than six years in the making called NCInnovation – a not-for-profit corporation most reporters in the room didn’t know existed.…
Read MoreThank you for taking the time to read this morning, and this weekend we join you in honoring the mothers that have been impactful in each of our lives. Today, however, we’re talking media. Trust in news reporting is in utter freefall. Why? And what does it mean? A common answer is that the purpose…
Read MoreGood Saturday morning. If you tune in to the most exciting two minutes in sports this evening, you’ll hear a familiar refrain echoing from the Churchill Downs speakers: “The horses have reached the starting gate: They’re at the post.” So too is a supermajority of state legislators. They’re poised to fundamentally reshape North Carolina’s K-12 education landscape…
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