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NC Newsline Editor Rob Schofield oversees day-to-day newsroom operations, authors and voices regular commentaries, and hosts the 'News & Views' weekly radio show/podcast.
NC Newsline is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Ratepayers have a right to be concerned about Duke Energy’s political spending
By: Rob Schofield - August 22, 2024
Every politician loves infrastructure, but many don’t want to pay for it
By: Rob Schofield - August 21, 2024
New report highlights sorry state of voting rights in the South
By: Rob Schofield - August 20, 2024
NC legislative leaders and the inevitable temptations of power
By: Rob Schofield - August 20, 2024
In an acceptance speech he delivered in 1991 at a Copenhagen awards ceremony honoring his contributions to European civilization, Vaclav Havel – a poet and playwright who had risen from Soviet-era dissident to become president of what was then still known as Czechoslovakia – used the opportunity to hold forth on the temptations of political […]
Politicians should heed the nation’s positive post- Olympics vibe
By: Rob Schofield - August 19, 2024
The legislature’s disastrous plan to end NC’s state income tax
By: Rob Schofield - August 16, 2024
Officials should investigate alleged deception by Elon Musk-funded super PAC
By: Rob Schofield - August 15, 2024
Social Security and the threat it faces in 2025
By: Rob Schofield - August 14, 2024
Today is the 89th anniversary of one of the most important and impactful statutes in American history. It was August 14, 1935, that President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, thereby establishing a federal system that would dramatically improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people — retirees, people with disabilities, […]
Congressman Jeff Jackson’s bill is a no-brainer; Republicans should help him
By: Rob Schofield - August 14, 2024
The nation’s post-Olympics vibe leans hopeful; politicians should take heed
By: Rob Schofield - August 13, 2024
If there was a moment that best captured the positive vibe of the recently concluded global media extravaganza that was the Paris Olympic Games, it might just have been the action of a pair of U.S. athletes who missed out on a gold medal. It happened near the conclusion of the women’s gymnastics competition when […]
Big Duke Energy dollars are flowing to attacks in the NC governor’s race
By: Christine Zhu and Rob Schofield - August 12, 2024
North Carolina’s largest energy provider has a long record of making campaign contributions to politicians of both major political parties. Charlotte-based Duke Energy has, for instance, donated more than $1 million directly toward electing governors in recent years, as well as to dozens of candidates for other state government offices. But a recent attack ad […]