North Carolina’s General Assembly returned to Raleigh this past week for the 2024 “short session” — a session that figures to feature debates on a number of familiar topics – including public and higher education, an impending childcare cliff, and funding

Theres a very good argument to be made that the United States should guarantee free and universal early childhood education from birth to all American families. Nations that invest in the care of young children when their minds and bodies are still devel

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Thanks to new and gerrymandered congressional maps enacted last fall by the Republican-dominated state legislature, the outcomes to almost all of North Carolinas fall congressional elections have been pre-decided. One lawmaker directly impacted by this i

PFAS. Most North Carolinians had never heard that term until a few years ago, but sadly its now a permanent part of the lexicon. It refers, of course, to a class of dangerous substances often referred to as forever chemicals because they dont break

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