The tour will kick off on Tuesday, August 19th, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at Galilee Ministries in Charlotte, where dozens of community leaders, concerned North Carolinians, and local advocates are invited to share their concerns around Trump’s costly budget bill.
The 32-page bill, a watered-down version of the original 1,000-page state budget proposed in April, makes major cuts to health care services in the state. This comes not even a month after Congress passed H.R. 1, or the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, which made major cuts to Medicaid, endangering the healthcare of over half a million people in North Carolina alone.
Officials at the organization, which was founded more than 60 years ago, say they are focused on helping local stations figure out how to cope with sudden budget shortfalls. Harrison has warned that some stations, particularly in rural areas, will have to shut down without federal support.
At stake, she stressed, is whether someone can cast a ballot and feel confident it will count. “Instead, it will depend on whether partisan politicians have enough money to throw at a race to litigate the outcome after the fact,” Riggs said. She went on to share that in total, defending her election victory in court cost roughly $2 million.
Pirro, a longtime Trump ally and television personality, agreed on air earlier this year that prosecutors handling January 6 cases should themselves face criminal charges; she’s now managing them. Though Pirro previously served as a judge and prosecutor in New York, her decade-plus as a Fox News pundit was defined by fierce partisanship and frequent promotion of election conspiracy theories – even after her own network corrected them.
Four North Carolina Democratic lawmakers broke with their party in voting to override Governor Josh Stein’s veto of eight bills, a move that helped push several harmful measures into law.
After the North Carolina General Assembly rushed through a slew of bills ahead of their summer recess, Democratic Governor Josh Stein vetoed 14 of the bills that were sent to his desk, calling some of them “dangerous” or “mean-spirited”. Here’s a look at the bills Gov. Stein has vetoed so far in his first seven months in office.
The EPA has submitted a proposal to scrap a years-old finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten the environment and public health. Former officials say such a move would gut the agency’s own power to curb greenhouse gas emissions, which have been widely found to cause global warming.
Cooper, who concluded his governorship at the end of 2024, left office with a legacy of expanding health care access, investing in education, and driving job growth across North Carolina. In his farewell address, Cooper highlighted the progress the state made under his leadership—calling it a place where people are “better educated, healthier, and have more money in their pockets.”
Former Governor Roy Cooper, who has recently announced his candidacy for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat, has a long record of serving the state with a career in public service spanning nearly four decades.