Leah Sherrell

WATCH: Charlotte’s Stacy Staggs says the government should work for its people! 💪🏻 We talked to Staggs about a new push to restore the pandemic-era child tax credit payments. The temporary reform proposed by President Biden cut childhood poverty in half during the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal lawmakers did not extend the tax credit, but there’s a bipartisan push to restore it.

Dr. Abby Schultz, a Durham OB-GYN, spoke with @cardinalandpine about the repercussions of North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban. “It puts us in a really hard situation where we end up having to be the face of the law and the face of a law that we don’t agree with,” says Schultz.

Our weekly roundup of the good news from all over NC includes a seriously ambitious rabbit in Onslow County. Plus: A high school basketball star from Sanford is tops in the nation. Hey NC! We’re here with a new installment of Good News Friday, where we bring you happy-go-lucky news from around the state. Because it’s not all bad news out there, regardless of what the TV’s telling you.Let’s hop into it.