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Commentary Archives • NC Newsline has published 6 episodes during 2025. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
There hasn’t been a new episode in the last ninety days; the most recent episode landed 9 months ago. Published by NC Newsline.
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Our final one-minute commentary
  Two decades ago, the leaders of Capitol Broadcasting Company had a bold and courageous idea: to devote one minute each night after the simulcast of the WRAL News on Mix 101.5 to a no-holds-barred commentary from veteran journalist and political observer, Chris Fitzsimon. For more than a decade, Fitzsimon held forth on scores of […]
Bernie Sanders tells it like it is
  He may now be 83, but few if any American political leaders do a better job of truth-telling and connecting with young people than Vermont’s sagacious Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders was in Asheville this week as part of a national “Fight the Oligarchy” tour and as NC Newsline’s Clayton Henkel reported, the senator pulled […]
The gerrymandering mess threatens to spiral out of control
  Gerrymandering. Most Americans are familiar with this phenomenon in which politicians rig electoral maps and elections for partisan purposes. But unless you’re a serious political observer, you may not be up to speed on just how far out of control this practice has gotten of late or, indeed, how unless something is done soon, […]
The legislature’s mini-budget won’t get the job done
  As has so often been the case with a legislature that refuses to work and negotiate in good faith, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein had little choice last week but to sign the so-called mini-budget that state lawmakers approved a few days earlier. With the new fiscal year already well-underway and numerous vital public […]
The damage Trump’s deportation agenda is doing to the economy
  It’s an article of faith on the political far right that the Trump administration’s mass immigrant deportation policies will be a boon to U.S. born workers. A new report from economists at the Economic Policy Institute, however, finds the opposite to be true and that the net impact of mass deportation on employment – […]