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Does Duke Energy’s secrets leave communities in the dark?
By Vance Bailey
Davidson Local
Photo by Energie-portal.sk on Unsplash
Living Here, You Can Feel the Silence
I’ve lived in Davidson County long enough to know how news travels. When something big is coming, a new school, a factory, a hig...
Billy Corriher: The N.C. Supreme Court’s Duke Energy ruling made all of us poorer — and may enrich the Chief Justice
Photo by Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash
By Billy Corriher
Beacon Media
In late May, the North Carolina Supreme Court approved Duke Energy’s drastic 2023 price increases. The court rejected arguments from N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson...
Opinion: How progressives are rebuilding trust in rural areas
By Anthony Flaccavento
Rural Urban Bridge Initiative
In the summer of 2023 in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, eight volunteers from the county Democratic Party joined local church members to restore a home for an elderly woman and her five...
Trump’s Corruption Is Unprecedented
By Craig Holman | May 27, 2026
This Op-Ed Piece is from OtherWords.org. See the full article here.
Photo by Jose Moreno on Unsplash
Even President Trump’s own Justice Department is having a hard time grappling with Trump’s brazen money g...
Iliana Santillán: In Georgia’s federal detention center, I saw the real immigration ‘crisis’
By Iliana Santillán
Beacon Media
Photo by Frank Kastle on Unsplash
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA — The first thing I packed for the federal detention center in Stewart County, Georgia, was hope.
The night before my trip to the private federal detent...
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THE media organization serving all communities in the fight for progress in NC. Our state can be the Beacon of the South once again. Nonpartisan nonprofit winning hearts, then minds. Available to republish anywhere for free!
Jeremy Borden is working for a better world from his perch in Durham, North Carolina and raising voices and values for a better world through Beacon Media.
Mom, writer, organizer, Southerner. All things working-class. Writes @workingclassstories here on Substack.
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