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Campbell Med School Seeks To Fill Gaps in Rural Coverage

BUIES CREEK — Campbell University expects to play a lead role in the transformation of health care delivery in North Carolina, and to aid ailing rural communities by sending them health care professionals from its new School of Osteopathic Medicine, school officials said Thursday. With plans to graduate 150 physicians and 40 physician assistants per year, Campbell could become the state's second-largest medical school.

Dan Way
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Biographer Amity Shlaes discusses Calvin Coolidge’s contrast with his presidential predecessor

Amity Shlaes, author of a New York Times best-selling biography of 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, contrasts Coolidge with predecessor Warren Harding. Shlaes offered these comments during a Sept. 23, 2013, John Locke Foundation Headliner speech. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.

Podcast

ObamaCare Expected To Cause Huge Premium Spike

Rick Henderson on ObamaCare's rate spike; John Skvarla on balancing the environment & economic growth; GOP legislators debate a bill that could make it easier to hire illegal immigrants; Andy Taylor on N.C.'s Senate race; and Terry Stoops on homeschooling

Rick Henderson, Terry Stoops
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JLF’s John Hood assesses Gov. Pat McCrory’s responsibility for DHHS problems

John Locke Foundation President John Hood answers host Tom Campbell’s question about Gov. Pat McCrory’s responsibility for problems associated with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. This exchange took place during the Sept. 22, 2013, episode of N.C. Spin.

Opinion

Elections

News

Trump nominates Bishop to be deputy director for budget at OMB

"Dan has been a tireless fighter for our MAGA Movement in the House of Representatives on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees," Trump said in a press release issued Tuesday night. "Dan will implement my cost-cutting and deregulatory agenda across all Agencies, and root out the Weaponized Deep State."

Theresa Opeka
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Democrats want federal court to address GOP challenge of 60,000 NC ballots

The North Carolina Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday to ensure challenges of 60,000 ballots in the state's latest election are addressed in federal court. Republicans filed the challenges with the State Board of Elections. The challenges could affect the outcome of the state Supreme Court race between Democrat Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin, along with a handful of state legislative contests.

CJ Staff
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Griffin asks Appeals Court to order decision on election protests by Tuesday

Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is turning to North Carolina’s second-highest court for an order that would force state election officials to make a final decision about Griffin’s election protests Tuesday. The State Board of Elections had planned to hear oral arguments about the protests the following day, according to a document Griffin filed Friday with the state Court of Appeals.

CJ Staff

Videos

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Locke’s Mitch Kokai analyzes Berger’s election concession

Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses Sen. Phil Berger’s concession in his primary election loss to Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page. Kokai offered these comments during the March 27, 2026, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

Mitch Kokai
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Cooper, King analyze recent polling in NC’s US Senate race

Political scientist Chris Cooper of Western Carolina University and Carolina Journal Editor-in-Chief Donna King discuss recent polls in North Carolina’s 2026 US Senate race. Cooper and King offered these comments during the Jan. 23, 2026, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

Donna King

Culture

Civil Society

Opinion

For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane

Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...

David Larson
Opinion

Flashback: North Carolina’s Easter Monday tradition forged on the baseball diamond

On Good Friday state offices will be closed in North Carolina for Holy Week, along with 10 other states. However, that has not always been the case in North Carolina. The Monday after Easter — rather than Good Friday — was a legal holiday in North Carolina for 52 years, and for many years before...

Dallas Woodhouse