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Carolina Journal’s Donna King assesses North Carolina’s pending Medicaid expansion

Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses challenges linked to North Carolina’s upcoming Medicaid expansion. King offered these comments during the Sept. 29, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

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Cooper appeals ruling over COVID bar shutdowns to highest NC court

Gov. Roy Cooper is urging the state Supreme Court to take up a case of bar owners suing the state over government-enforced shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. A split state Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 this month that bar owners could move forward with their lawsuit against Cooper and the state.

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Charlotte schools’ social media suit likely to shift to California court

A federal court in California is likely to address the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's lawsuit against major social media companies. The suit filed in August accuses the companies of contributing to a “mental health crisis” among American children.

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Charging Syria $1.1 billion for ties to terrorism

Attorney Kieran Shanahan of Raleigh discusses U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle’s June decision to award $1.1 billion to victims of terrorism sponsored by Syria. Shanahan discussed the case with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal’s “Issues and Insiders.”

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Lauch’s legacy: a lifetime of service and a remarkable story of survival

Brad Crone, president of Capital Connections and lifelong friend to the late Lauch Faircloth talks about his legacy, and a plane crash the two survived on the way to a campaign stop in August of 1983. Faircloth passed on September 14, 2023 at his home in Clinton, NC. He was 95 years old.

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New group seeks to expand supply of private schools in NC

Doug Turpin has a personal story about how a school can change its values quickly, without parents being fully apprised. That experience led Turpin to found a new group, Coalition for Liberty, that seeks to established new classical model schools that are apolitical, among other objectives.

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Locke’s Mitch Kokai discusses NC state budget impasse

Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the latest developments in North Carolina’s ongoing state budget stalemate. Kokai offered these comments during the Sept. 15, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

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The Debrief: Fuel to the Fire

This week, Donna King, Alex Baltzegar, David Larson, Mitch Kokai, and Theresa Opeka break down the week’s news. * Temperatures are running hot down at the state legislature. * North Carolina’s highest court has a new associate justice. * The Capital Broadcasting Company calls for the executive branch to usurp state lawmakers’ authority. * NC State Treasurer Folwell released...

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Ukrainian people in NC rally to support homeland 

As the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine continues to escalate, North Carolina’s local Ukrainian population is rallying to bring attention to the suffering of people in their homeland and to gather supplies to help them. Donna Goldstein, co-president of the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina, finds herself at the forefront of these efforts.  Goldstein has...

David Larson
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Why the Fourth Estate is in receivership

The fourth estate, journalism, is racing to receivership unless we can rescue it from its rapacious self. The hubris hasn’t always been this bad, this blatant, or this biased, yet it worsens daily. In the town I grew up in, Nashville, Tennessee, there were two newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s, one for the morning,...

Mark Herring