Right now, taxpayers and state budgets are footing the bill for climate disasters while the largest fossil fuel companies who caused this crisis continue to post enormous profits.

Finger-pointing, childish blame-shifting, and refusing to accomplish the fundamental task of passing a budget are what have characterized this year’s legislative session. Voters deserve better.

For the first time in years, more child care programs in North Carolina closed than opened this August.

For the sixth year in a row, Rep. Julie von Haefen has introduced a bill to fully fund public schools as required by the state constitution. Republican leaders blocked those efforts, she writes.

Republicans say they’re increasing teacher pay and funding public schools. Here are the facts.

With North Carolina’s Republican-dominated General Assembly still dead-set on refusing to provide meaningful relief for mountain communities hit hard by Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27, Democratic Gov. R...