Senator Phil Berger: Still mistaking the problem for a solution

By: Rob Schofield

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: April 21, 2026

Words: 838

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh for the 2026 legislative session and in at least one important way, it will be a gathering of historic note. Thanks to his stunning defeat in the March primary, this will be Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger’s 16th and final go-round running the General Assembly’s upper house. Only one other Senate leader in state history – Berger’s immediate predecessor, the late Marc Basnight, who held the job for …

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