
Rose Hoban: Amid flu deaths in N.C., warning signs already for next year
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from meetings that establish the flu virus has experts worried.
Raven MacFarlane-Bradbrook: We need Medicaid more than billionaires need tax cuts
Republicans in Congress want to gut Medicaid, denying life-saving health care for regular families to cut taxes for billionaires.

Rose Hoban: Will the kind of research that saved my life still be funded in the future?
Rose Hoban, the editor of N.C. Health News, reacts to recent changes to federal healthcare budgets.
Michael Chameides: Small businesses, the engines of rural economies, need a fair tax system
Tax breaks for corporations and the ultra-rich hurt working people, Michael Chameides of the Rural Democracy Initiative argues.

Dalton George: How the Hellbender unites North Carolina’s mountains
This salamander and the federal Act that protects it shows how government can protect the things we all love.