While we properly associate American pop culture with places such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, I’d recently come to appreciate the pivotal contributions of North and South Carolinians to the pulp fiction of the early 20th century and the comic-book culture that followed it.
APRNs — including nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives — are highly trained, nationally certified professionals who are already delivering high-quality care across the state. Yet outdated regulatory requirements continue to limit how that care can be delivered in practice.
Like Iryna, Dominique deserved better. Hopefully this bill bearing her name can create systems and procedures that can prevent future situations where a child suffers abuse of this magnitude.
It will always be far more easy for the State governments to encroach upon the national authorities than for the national government to encroach upon the State authorities. The proof of this proposition turns upon the greater degree of influence which the State governments if they administer their affairs with uprightness and prudence, will generally possess over the people
Cooper isn’t alone this week in taking heat for language that may be intended (by some) as political urgency but can take on a different weight when faced with real-world violence.
As important as government efforts like Reentry 2030 are, I believe the most powerful engine of second-chance success isn’t policy — it’s entrepreneurship.
NC ought to consider replicating Idaho’s approach. By changing when benefits are paid, it reduces work disincentives without inviting accusations of stinginess.
NC ranks 31st nationally in SNAP payment accuracy, with an error rate of 10.21%. Any state with an error rate above 6% will soon be required to start paying a share of food benefit costs.
