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The State · About

About The State

Nonpartisan statehouse coverage that wins across the aisle.

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The State · Standards

How we work

  • Both sides on every policy story.
  • Every claim attributed.
  • Corrections are noted at the bottom of the story, with a date.
The State · Republishing

Stories from partner newsrooms

Some stories are republished under Creative Commons licenses from nonprofit newsrooms, with credit and links to the original.

The State · Publisher

Who runs The State

Denzel D. Burnside III founded The State to cover the place where most American law actually gets made: the statehouse. He spent years on the other side of politics as an organizer and campaign manager in South Florida before moving his work to North Carolina. He leads the North Carolina Housing Table as executive director and also publishes The Operative Ledger, on business, markets and opportunity.

The State · Disclosure

Disclosure

DB3 Wire's founder, Denzel D. Burnside III, leads the NC Housing Table, a statewide housing coalition. Housing stories carry this disclosure.