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Founder thelivingsouth.com. Senior Editor @CardinalandPine. Bylines @TheAtlantic @washingtonpost @MSNBC. @UNCHussman grad. Journalism is the best job ever.
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Billy Ball, Education Reporter, joined N.C. Policy Watch in January 2016. He covers public education at the N.C. General Assembly and the State Board of Education. Before joining the project, Billy was a staff writer and investigative reporter for The Independent Weekly for more than three years, covering education, the environment, politics and the criminal justice system. Before that, Billy served as a general assignment reporter for The Sanford Herald and The Monroe Enquirer-Journal.

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Good News Friday: NC employees get ‘historic’ boost in parental leave

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By Billy Ball Verified, Ryan Pitkin Verified
| Cardinal & Pine
Good News Friday is Cardinal & Pine’s weekly roundup of positive news stories around North Carolina. For past editions, tap here. We’ve got some cool news about NC parental leave below, but first: Did you feel a change in the air this week? That’s what it feels like to be living in a state with a budget for the first time in over a year. Gov. Josh Stein signed Senate Bill 257 into law on Tuesday, enacting North Carolina’s first full state budget since 2023.
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New list ranks 10 cutest towns in North Carolina. Here’s what’s on it

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By Billy Ball Verified
| Cardinal & Pine
A new list from WorldAtlas names 10 North Carolina places their writers deemed the “cutest towns” in the state for 2026 – including a full half of the list located in Western NC. Founded in 1994 by cartographer John Moen and his wife, Chris Woolwine-Moen, WorldAtlas publishes educational materials and articles on geography, sociology, demography, environment, economics, politics, and travel.
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How Jesse Jackson was vilified - and ultimately redeemed

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By Billy Ball Verified
| The Wilson Times Verified
In 1984, the Rev. Jesse Jackson lost his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, just as he did in 1988. Big party politics has an inertia to it, and it favors the surer bet. Jackson — who died Tuesday, Feb. 17, at the age of 84 — was never that, even if his 1984 speech at the Democratic National Convention is the purest distillation of modern liberalism you will ever see.
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