Matt Maggio

Freelance photojournalist based in North Carolina, available on assignment.
Work from 2012 presidential campaign & John Edwards trial ran in top dailies.

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

"Asylum seeker" - British English for illegal "migrant."

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Anti-immigration protests in the U.K. are taking a new form, led by women in pink calling themselves “concerned mums” after a spate of recent sex attacks by asylum seekers. The women – some of the immigrants themselves – claim the perpetrators of these crimes are undocumented and are taking resources away from citizens. But critics say they’re a far-right front group. CBS News’@InayaFolarin went to a recent protest they held to find out more.

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

Wealth flees costly, high-regulatory-burden places - such as California.

[Daily Mail US @Daily_MailUS]

Wall Street titan to cancel huge $6bn project creating 21,000 jobs in retaliation for 'shameful' threats from woke NYC mayor Mamdani https://t.co/lzzo6MtdjB

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

It's the MIDDLE-CLASS that will flee NYC first, if the past 50 years is any guide.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

When Zohran Mamdani won the mayor's race, his critics predicted a mass exodus of wealth and business from New York City, cratering its tax base.

It’s been nearly six months since he won, and market indicators suggest so far that the rich are staying put.https://t.co/hlR07r1naj

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

ELON UNIVERSITY (ELON, N.C.) TO MERGE WITH
QUEENS UNIVERSITY (CHARLOTTE, N.C.):
‘We are slow walking the process’: Leaders provide update on pending Queens-Elon University merger https://t.co/taiH5veeRm via @@YahooNews

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

ELON UNIVERSITY (ELON, N.C.) TO MERGE WITH
QUEENS UNIVERSITY (CHARLOTTE, N.C.):
Elon, Queens University enter next stage of merger https://t.co/k9sTmzdLWm

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

Unsustainable - mathematically.
You hardly need to be a math nerd to see why.

[Maria Davidson @MariaDavidson]

US population grew 6% in the last decade.

Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted.

Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

VIOLENT MID-AFTERNOON HOME INVASION
THURSDAY IN MIDDLE-CLASS AREA
OF BURLINGTON, N.C.:
Threesome captured after home invasion in Burlington https://t.co/bozenCsKvZ via @alamancenews.com

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

TAX PREPARER SENTENCED TO PRISON
FOR PREPARING FRAUDULENT TAX RETURNS:
Burlington woman, charged with second-degree murder in Southeast teen’s death in 2025, now sentenced to federal prison for tax fraud https://t.co/di7xesxKLA via @alamancenews.com

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

N.C. SUPREME COURT VACATES LEANDRO
SCHOOL FUNDING RULINGS::
North Carolina Supreme Court vacates nine years of Leandro school funding orders https://t.co/o9Kf5Uiw6U

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

Mathematically unsustainable.

[Maria Davidson @MariaDavidson]

California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade.

The number of state employees grew 24.5%.

Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted.

You have to ask - where did all the money go?

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

See why California is broke?

[Haywood Talcove @HaywoodTalcove]

At one point, California had more people applying for unemployment than there were adults in the entire state. $32.6 billion. Gone. Prisoners collected. Dead people collected. I warned them. I begged them not to let the money go out like that. They suspended every rule anyway. The tools to stop this exist. So why are the doors still open? 30 years tracking fraud. This is the biggest in American history.
It didn't have to happen. And it doesn't have to continue.https://t.co/ONy2HhBeM6

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

@DukeU , your occupational therapist, clearly an agent, servant, or employee of yours, flipped my smartphone to the floor during a very-recent hospital stay there.
Replacement cost was $650.
I demand reparations.
Matt Maggio
N.C. S.B. 13200

[Tony Heller 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 @TonyClimate]

There have been almost 9,000 shootings in the Bronx over the past twenty years. Only 1% of them had a white shooter.

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOL SYSTEM (N.C.)
WANTS 23% MORE FROM COUNTY THAN LAST YEAR:
ABSS officials present budget with 23 percent overall increase in requested county funding; school board to vote in two weeks https://t.co/uLcYtky0RF

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

BURLINGTON, N.C. PUBLIC HOSTILE TO POLICE USE OF FLOCK SAFETY SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS:
How are Burlington police using AI traffic cameras? https://t.co/E0pfzoMz90

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOL SYSTEM (N.C.)
CONTINUES MISSPELLING NAME OF "SOUTHEAST"
HIGH SCHOOL IN ITS LOGO:
Southeast girls head back to state final; Stallions boys fall in regional https://t.co/IBKai5jNZ5 via @alamancenews.com @JWTROLLI5oh

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. HOMEOWNERS TO SEE
MAJOR PROPERTY TAX DROP AS BUSINESSES TO PAY MORE:
Recent commercial sales show 2027 revaluations could have higher values for business properties https://t.co/S8O8cvS5ZE via @alamancenews.com

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

Just saw a Google Street View car drive by for the first time.

[Matt Maggio @MaggioMatt]

PITTSBURGH'S MAIN NEWSPAPER
TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS IN MAY:
Post-Gazette to publish final edition and cease operations on May 3 https://t.co/VMoYgnMrhr via @PittsburghPG #journalism #pittsburgh