Duke Energy is asking state regulators to approve an 18% increase in electricity rates for residential customers over the next two years.
As Duke Energy Progress asked for higher electric rates at a Utilities Commission hearing on Tuesday, concerns about affordability grew louder just outside the hearing room.
When the heat index tops 105°F, as it has this week in central North Carolina, the National Weather Service issues a heat advisory. Meteorologists warn people to limit their time in the sun and advise that hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat-related illness.
Community leaders called on Thursday, July 13, in front of the state Capitol, for the adoption of mandatory standards against heat stress, greater job protections, and public spending focused on worker well-being.
Environmental activists and a Democratic state lawmaker are calling on Duke Energy to lower its rate hike request as the North Carolina Utilities Commission reviews its case.
Duke Energy is asking state regulators to approve an 18% increase in electricity rates for residential customers over the next two years.
Michael Whatley, the NC Republican US Senate candidate, is facing renewed criticism over his relationship with Harvey West Jr., a GOP official who served six years in prison after being accused of raping three minors in 1999.
Duke Energy is asking state regulators to approve an 18% increase in electricity rates for residential customers over the next two years.
If you’ve had higher electricity bills recently, you’re not alone. And another blow could hit your wallet. Duke Energy is seeking an 18% increase that could mean more of your money toward your utility bills.
Duke Energy customers packed a North Carolina Utilities Commission meeting Monday night, urging them to reject the utility’s proposed 18% rate increase.
North Carolinians who suffered through an unseasonably cold and snowy January are just now beginning to see the true cost of trying to stay warm. Ty McFarland with the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters says residential customers are feeling the squeeze of higher costs even as Duke Energy is
Our business has been impacted by the reckless tariffs from Washington, DC. The tariffs are driving up prices of our goods 20 to 50 percent, and some vendors have used the tariffs to further raise the price of goods and even shipping. Some of our customers’ favorite brands have
As Washington Republicans create a health care crisis and send health care costs soaring, families like mine will suffer.
Advocates and families met on the lawn of the General Assembly on Thursday to push back against Medicaid and the rising costs of healthcare.
A domestic violence survivor in North Carolina talks to Cardinal & Pine about how Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill” will impact her health care.
The Coalition Against Right-Wing Extremism (C.A.R.E.) concluded a four-city tour through North Carolina with a series of town halls in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, and Asheville. Throughout the tour, North Carolinians discussed how the federal spending bill would impact their lives and local communities.
On Monday evening, the Coalition Against Right-Wing Extremism (C.A.R.E.) held its second “Broken Budget Town Hall Tour” stop at the Barber Park Event Center, where residents, advocates and local leaders voiced deep concerns over how the federal budget could harm working-class families.
The Fair Share America national bus tour made its latest stop in North Carolina, with local advocates and residents speaking out against the devastating impact of the federal budget bill passed in July.
The press conference, organized by progressive group Down Home North Carolina, featured speakers who shared their experiences with rural education and health care and said the cuts prescribed by President Donald Trump’s proposed “big, beautiful bill” would cause significant harm to both.
Members of the NC League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) and the BlueGreen Alliance gathered outside the building at 3200 Northline Ave., holding signs that read “Don’t raise our energy bills” and “Protect NC clean energy jobs.”
Organized by ‘Indivisible Guilford County’ and the ‘NC Justice Center,’ the event, known as the ‘Medicaid Die-In,’ was one of several demonstrations across the state. Participants voiced their concerns over congressional Republicans’ plans to reduce Medicaid funding as part of what former President Donald Trump has called his ‘One Big
North Carolina environmental and labor advocates held a press conference Wednesday to call on Republican Sen. Thom Tillis to preserve tax credits and jobs in the massive budget reconciliation bill making its way through Congress.
Protesters gathered outside of North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis’s office in northeast Charlotte, urging him to block funding cuts to health programs.
Senators are considering President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, which calls for tax reductions and spending cuts.
Devastating cuts are on the table for communities across the country and the more than 1.4 million North Carolinians who rely on food stamps.
Last week, a coalition of activists and small business owners pleaded with Senator Thom Tillis to help protect the agency. Their simple message: stand with the people of North Carolina, not the billionaires. Let’s fervently hope he was listening.
Three years ago, Stella Adams’ doctor said there were no more standard options to treat her multi myeloma, an incurable bone cancer. But she applied for a clinical trial, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has since shown improvement, she told Cardinal & Pine recently.
Julius Tillery, a 5th generation farmer in Northampton County, spoke with Cardinal and Pine after a press conference in Raleigh laying out the damage Trump’s tariffs will bring to the state.
I’m concerned that, right now, Republican leaders in Congress are working to push through massive cuts to Medicaid — up to $880 billion or more. North Carolina’s senior U.S. Senator, Republican Thom Tillis, has supported the plans that would slash this vital program, just one year after North Carolina finally
A coalition of progressive advocacy groups joined with local health care providers at a Raleigh press conference Thursday to encourage Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis to protect Medicaid amid proposed federal cuts.
The event, which was organized by the Coalition Against Right-Wing Extremism (CARE), was intended to draw attention to a plan developed by congressional Republicans to squeeze $880 billion in cuts from Medicaid, a program that provides access to health care for about 3.1 million North Carolinians.
This is the Mark Robinson North Carolinians know. We know his words, and we know hischaracter. He has been completely transparent about his utter disdain for women, Black people,the LGBTQ community, Jewish people, Muslim people, school shooting survivors, educators,and more. As Maya Angelou told us, “When someone shows you who
A coalition of Democratic elected officials, educators, parents and progressive advocates gathered in Raleigh on Thursday to sound alarm bells over what they say is a profound threat to public education posed by North Carolina’s Republican nominees for governor and superintendent of public instruction.
Robinson has said that trans people are “demonic,” that he doesn’t care “how much you cut yourself up, drug yourself up and dress yourself up; you are still either one of two things: You are either a man or a woman.”
Those are such vile things to say when studies
The distasteful actions from Mark Robinson and Christian Nationalism in North Carolina towards the LGBTQIA community is deeply appalling. I want to bring to light that this Jesus we preach and teach about is still very much outside of most temples and the hearts of many Christian Nationalists, especially Mark
Some people know that I grew up in the same church as Mark Robinson’s family, which they have since left. Since our time together as a part of the same church family, we have gone down different paths. Even so, I still pray for his health and wellness, as well
Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. said his father “would be gravely disappointed” by North Carolina’s potential first Black governor.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson understands the power of language as well. He has said that women should never have been given the right to vote, nor should they have any say over their reproductive autonomy. He thinks Muslims shouldn’t have religious liberties or civil rights.
When candidates, elected officials, and religious leaders purport how people should be treated based on their identity, ask yourself if it’s grounded in a love ethic. When lawmakers put out policies that aren’t informed by the people they impact, ask if it was made from a place of love for
Republicans in North Carolina have nominated their most extreme ticket yet. This year, voters will see Donald Trump, Mark Robinson, Dan Bishop, and Michele Morrow as Republican nominees, in addition to a number of other far-right candidates up and down the ballot. These candidates stand in opposition to North Carolinian
Despite the fact that Robinson would be the state’s first ever Black governor, Black voters are wary of Robinson, polls show.
It may be easy to dismiss Robinson’s offensive rhetoric and radical policies as bombastic and ultimately inconsequential, but Robinson would yield real power as Governor and would likely be backed by a Republican-led state legislature and state Supreme Court, both of which have bucked decorum and good governance in recent
CARE conducted several rounds of public opinion research to understand Black people’s concerns about Robinson’s leadership. The topline from our research shows, the more Black North Carolinians know about the real Mark Robinson, the more they reject his leadership.
Mark Robinson, the Republican in a competitive governor’s race, has declared them and others comparable to or worse than the Ku Klux Klan in social media posts
Líderes comunitarios se reunieron el jueves, 7 de marzo, a las 10 am., en el Halifax Mall para levantar su voz de protesta contra la insultos a este candidato.
In 2018, Mark Robinson went on a conspiracy-laden YouTube show and said the Affordable Care Act was a “concentrated effort” to “enslave everybody.”
Just days after Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson won the Republican nomination for Governor, a group that calls itself the ‘Coalition against Robinson’s Extremism’ held a press conference in downtown Wilmington to highlight and talk about Robinson’s nomination.
With just 244 days until voters head to the polls again, a coalition of groups launched a statewide accountability campaign against GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson on Thursday.
Robinson, who has a history of anti-LGBTQ remarks, revived the 2016 ‘bathroom bill’ idea that sparked a public outcry and cost the state billions of dollars in lost business.
I turn 18 in a year, and will finally be allowed to vote. What my generation has been subjected to in terms of gun violence and a lack of policy will not go unnoticed. As we gain the right to vote, we will not forget what politicians like Mark Robinson
Greensboro has been at the forefront of just about every major movement of justice in the United States. A key battle of the American Revolution was fought on Battleground Avenue, the vestiges of the Underground Railroad still exist today on the campus of Guilford College and, of course, the Woolworth
Now, the highest-ranking Republican in state government and the GOP’s leading candidate for Governor, Mark Robinson, is claiming that once a woman becomes pregnant, “it’s not (her) body anymore.” Robinson has gone on to say that he is looking forward to getting “to move the ball” after the election by enacting further
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has repeatedly denigrated the Civil Rights Movement at large and even our hometown heroes specifically. He has said the Civil Rights Movement was a communist plot to “subvert capitalism” and used “to subvert free choice” and that “so many freedoms were lost during the Civil
Here in North Carolina, for instance, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson – then still a private citizen – actually sought to cast doubt on the disaster, posting on his Facebook page that he was “SERIOUSLY skeptical” about what happened in Las Vegas. It was a remarkable, irresponsible, and dangerous act for
There are so many sad gun violence anniversaries in the United States. Oct. 1 is the sixth anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival mass shooting, which occurred on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.
During this event, more than 1,000 bullets were fired by one shooter from a
Six years ago today, a man opened fire on a concert crowd in Las Vegas, killing 58 and wounding several hundred in the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history.
A few weeks after the horrific tragedy, Mark Robinson cast doubt on the mass shooting, posting on
As a current resident of Northampton County, I am proud of my right to bear arms.
Living in America requires a balance of self-reliance and responsibility.
I have young grandchildren, which is one of the reasons my gun is always locked, unloaded and out of reach of small
As a current resident of Northampton County, I am proud of my right to bear arms.
Living in America requires a balance of self-reliance and responsibility. I have young grandchildren, which is one of the reasons my gun is always locked, unloaded and out of reach of small curious hands.
Members of the Coalition Against Mark Robinson’s Extremism (CARE) and education advocates held a press conference in downtown Raleigh to highlight what they said is an extreme Republican agenda, supported by Robinson, that threatens public education.
Lt. Mark Robinson’s bid to become the next governor of North Carolina will further divide a state in which most Democrats and Republicans are already miles apart over LGBTQ rights, book bans and lessons educators are allowed to teach about America’s racist past, a coalition of progressive activists said Thursday.
Left-leaning groups have formed a new coalition targeting Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson — another sign that he’s viewed as the frontrunner for the GOP gubernatorial primary.
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