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Two Holly Shelter Middle School students recently won a state history award and are now headed to Washington, D.C., to compete nationally. This year’s theme was a ‘turning point in history,’ they chose Wilmington’s 1898 coup d’etat for their project.
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Benjamin Schachtman
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The Newsroom
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The affordable housing crisis is national in scope, but it’s uniquely painful in the South because of low wages and surging demand. So what are some creative solutions to this rapidly growing and intractable problem? Backyard cottages? Flipping hotels into rental housing? Or building out job training programs? We asked smart people in the housing space what they consider the most effective strategies to improve housing with help from the New Hanover Community Endowment.
More Local News
- CFR: What's going on at NHRMC?
- How to: Building an accessory dwelling unit in Wilmington
- A look NHCS's Endowment requests, past and present
- Brunswick County Commission rejects request for two more elections employees
- NHC school board passes snap motion to limit flags, displays in classrooms
- Novant NHRMC “pleased” with B rating for safety and quality
- Cape Fear Memorial Bridge will reopen Wednesday night, ahead of schedule
- Registration open for new NHC alerting system
- CFR: The Wilmington crime lab lawsuit updates
- New Hanover High School lockdown lifted, suspect arrested
- Leland town council to vote on new budget in two weeks
- President Joe Biden visits Wilmington to announce funding to replace lead pipes
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Little Women
- STNL! Featuring: The Benny Hill Ensemble
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Rissi Palmer and September Krueger
- Comedian Meghan Cook on her origins in stand-up, and advice for aspiring comics
- Cape Fear Conversations: Health Equity
- Docutime Film Festival celebrates its 20th year
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Grahamland Amusements
- Cinematique Presents: The Beast
- Cinematique Presents: Problemista
- Cinematique Presents: Wicked Little Letters
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Dorothy Gillespie documentary
- Robert Bellamy, aka ScaleHamHawk da Poet, talks about his work, his muse, and his name
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome Back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Ben joins us to talk about New Hanover Regional Medical Center's lated leapfrog grade, and to talk about reporting he's been doing surrounding the hospital and Novant.
Port City Politics
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First up on this episode, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on two cases coming out of North Carolina this week — one dealing with the dubious 'independent state legislator' theory, and the other with affirmative action for colleges and universities. Then, a messy story about how the culture wars are playing out at UNCW — and beyond. And, NHRMC President Shelbourn Stevens is, quite abruptly, out of a job.
National News
- It was a classic rap beef. Then Drake revived Tupac with AI and Congress got involved
- Anti-war protests, a Chicago DNC: Is it 1968 all over again? Some historians say no
- Federal regulators approve a major overhaul of America's electric grid
- Morning news brief
- Billions are being spent to keep fentanyl out of the U.S. Is it working?
- Researchers aim to figure out how to harvest food and electricity off the same land
- Fake drug and alcohol treatment centers cause a big scandal in Arizona
- FAA bill would force the agency to craft 'real world' rules for airplane evacuations
- Collapsed Baltimore bridge span comes down with a boom
- Could a 'miracle' weight loss drug mean the end the body positivity movement?
State News
- Conservative school vouchers supporter says NC expansion goes too far
- Final steps in demolition of Asheville’s Vance Monument to begin this week
- North Carolina's May 2024 primary runoff election: What you need to know
- UNC-Chapel Hill BOT votes to divert DEI funding, redirecting it to campus public safety
- Study finds North Carolina public schools are growing more segregated
- FAFSA still causing delays in students receiving financial aid offers
- Mark Robinson suggests he's being politically persecuted amid probe of wife's nonprofit
- Whooping cough crosses county lines in WNC; Transylvania confirms outbreak
- NC Senate votes to protect Jockey's Ridge amid regulatory dispute
- North Carolina environmental committee delays vote on groundwater standards for toxic chemicals
