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NC House passes involuntary commitment reform bill
Legislation would expand outpatient commitment, study psychiatric hospital operations, and improve access to behavioral health bed data.
Opinion
Expand options for behavioral health
Given the stakes, we can’t afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. There is no such thing as perfection here. There are only differences in priorities.
News
Report calls for reform to involuntary commitment, mental health treatment
A House committee report calls for sweeping reforms to North Carolina’s involuntary commitment system, citing gaps in mental health care and public safety.
Opinion
Seeking a path between warehousing and enabling the troubled
America is alone among developed nations in allowing the kind of disorder being tolerated on Raleigh's Glenwood South, on the Charlotte transit system, and in countless other cities.
News
NC House committee hears testimony on guardianship difficulties
The House Select Committee on Involuntary Commitment and Public Safety has focused its recent meetings on evaluating both mental health system capacity and the legal processes for committing, treating, or releasing individuals.
News
Stein signs Iryna’s Law into law but says it doesn’t go far enough
While Stein signed Iryna’s Law into law, he also scolded the General Assembly, saying that the bill doesn't do enough to keep people safe and that they should come back to Raleigh to pass his public safety package and fully fund Medicaid.
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Families fault judicial system at tense Charlotte hearing
In a Charlotte field hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee Monday, lawmakers clashed over how to address violent crime, while victims' families blamed system failures.
Opinion
Leaders badly mishandled Charlotte killing
Long before the release of a video graphically depicting Iryna Zarutska being stabbed to death on a Charlotte train, state and local leaders should have publicly mourned her death and expressed outrage at so appalling a crime. Now they’re paying the price. Every homicide is a tragedy. Every innocent victim deserves our sympathy. But within...
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Charlotte light rail murder gets national attention
National outrage grows after 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line on Aug. 22.
Opinion
A Pitch That Just Won’t Sell
Easley, master political marketer, is wedded to a pitch that he’ll never be able to sell. But he just can’t seem to stop himself.
