Perspective Senators introduce needed child welfare reform by Michelle Hughes | April 10, 2017 The child welfare system is a last resort for children who are at risk of serious injury, trauma, or even...
Perspective What the election doesn’t change by Michelle Hughes | November 15, 2016 Like many of you, I’ve spent the past several days reflecting on the results of last week’s election and trying...
Perspective Helping children cope with disaster by Michelle Hughes | October 13, 2016 Hurricane Matthew’s flooding rains have wreaked havoc on communities across eastern North Carolina. In Lumberton, 1,500 people were stranded by...
Featured Reading to learn by Tracy Zimmerman and Michelle Hughes | November 12, 2015 In recent years, North Carolina’s legislative leaders have zeroed in on early literacy and particularly third-grade reading skills, and rightly...
Perspective Preventing youth suicide: What the latest data tells us and where we go from here by Michelle Hughes | October 26, 2015 We’ve come a long way, but the road is hard. When it comes to preventing child deaths, our state has...
Perspective Let’s not just get angry about the state budget, let’s get it right by Michelle Hughes | August 14, 2015 As the legislative logjam starts to break and the state budget begins to emerge after a month in the murky...
Perspective Making sense of the Senate budget proposal by Michelle Hughes | June 29, 2015 During the mind-numbing record heat of the last few weeks, we were also mentally blanketed by the hundreds of pages of...
