by Billy Ball | Dec 30, 2020 | POLITICS
Brave leaders, magical Santas, earth-moving candidates, crushing photos, a president in free fall, and a North Carolina man who waited 44 years for truth and justice. These are the stories of 2020. Just be ok. That’s the thing I keep saying to myself as 2020...
by Associated Press | Dec 30, 2020 | COMMUNITY
“As I long feared and warned the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” the president-elect said Tuesday. WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of...
by Max Millington | Dec 29, 2020 | POLITICS
Dunking on racism and bashing Bojangles: C&P’s Maxwell Millington on his best and most compelling stories of 2020 in NC. What a year it has been. I wrote my first byline for Cardinal & Pine in June, four years after getting my B.A. in Journalism &...
by Michael McElroy | Dec 28, 2020 | IMMIGRATION, POLITICS
Politics and pandemics, here’s a look inside a bleak and confounding year of news in North Carolina. A few Thanksgivings ago my wife and I fixed a ham instead of a turkey. We had just bought our first house and it was our daughter’s first Thanksgiving, and we wanted...
by Luis Rodriguez | Dec 28, 2020 | COMMUNITY
The threat of COVID forced me to look at myself and my role in the community in ways I hadn’t ever before. On a warm night in early April, I picked up the phone to hear my sister’s frantic voice, asking if I knew anyone in New York City who could prepare a body....