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Since 2019, New Hanover Regional Medical Center has consistently received a B grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national non-profit focused on hospital safety. The hospital scores well in many areas, but the latest report shows issues with infection prevention, post-surgical care, and the responsiveness of nurses and doctors.
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: 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
- A closer look at NHCS parents' groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity
- Editor's Note: Questions about Woody White's rebuke of DEI elicit muted responses, and a little snark
- DEQ submits Human Health Risk Assessment on 1,4-Dioxane
- National Bike Month: Vision Zero, and a new tool evaluates media coverage of bicycle and pedestrian deaths
- Nearly every house in Wilmington could be allowed an ADU starting in May
- Checking the record: NCDEQ never held Chemours accountable for missing its 'barrier wall' deadline
- CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI
- Former CFCC department chair: 'Who's behind the wheel?'
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, Kelly joins us to talk about a joint city and county homelessness meeting, and then Ben joins us to go over diversity, equity and inclusion and it's potential fate locally.
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we dig into the complicated world of cannabanoids and drug laws. Plus, the latest on the civil suit filed by the former director of the drug lab once run by the Wilmington Police Department, and a trip down the rabbit hole of North Carolina's notoriously opaque Grand Jury system.
National News
- What we can learn from 4 schools that have reached agreements with Gaza protesters
- Johnny Cash and Daisy Bates are both getting their due from their home state
- Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?
- Oregon community reduces planet-warming pollution by building energy efficiently
- Philly is among cities switching tactics on how to address addiction and homelessness
- Archive of Japanese Americans detained in internment camps is available online
- How student protests are changing college graduations
- How a U.S. Customs and Border Protection veteran sees his agency's mission
- 2024 Met Gala Red Carpet: Looks we love
- Scientists study the mysteries of bird migration in the mountains of Los Angeles
State News
- NC Senate Republicans want to restrict masks at protests
- UNC Charlotte disbands Gaza protest encampment, forbids Tuesday march
- After years of delays, NC voter ID trial begins in Winston-Salem
- NC charter board votes to cut public money for financially troubled Kinston K-8 school
- Whooping cough cases keep rising in Henderson County, now at 70
- UNC-Chapel Hill faculty call on administration to lift punishments for student protesters
- DPI at odds with education gaming company with ties to GOP
- Native American tribes across the U.S. attend graduation feather ceremony in North Carolina
- BPR Weekly News Round-Up: Buncombe Co. budget, Malvern Hills pool, Indigenous justice
- Slavery by another name: New NC historical marker acknowledges post-Civil War convict laborers
