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9:37 am
Tue April 16, 2013

Wilmington runners in Boston Marathon are safe

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All the Wilmington runners participating in the Boston Marathon are safe after two bombs exploded near the marathon’s finish line.

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7:26 am
Mon April 15, 2013

Business Brief: Rivenbark says Thalian Hall CPA NOT a recipient of City largesse

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As City of Wilmington officials prepare the budget for the next fiscal year, nonprofits and arts organizations are working hard to make their case for the well-documented link between economic development and the arts. 

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Marin Alsop artist page: listen to interviews, features and music archived at NPR Music.

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6:52 am
Fri April 12, 2013

Friday Feedback for April 12, 2013

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Neal Conan, host of Talk of the Nation
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Karen Gilbert of Southport wrote:

NPR is discarding the enlightening, wonderful program, Talk of the Nation and Neal Conan, the fine unbiased, gentleman journalist. This program made me feel NPR was fair and balanced but I know differently especially highlighted when 91.3 brought in Diane Rehm, who no NPR employee can honestly say is fair and balanced, just too much to ask of most of today's journalists. This is a great loss. Shame on NPR.

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Local
10:08 pm
Thu April 11, 2013

New House Resolution seeks to re-assert state authority, curtail Federal Government power

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Representative Mark Brody
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Community Commentary
7:00 am
Thu April 11, 2013

The Best Sandwich in the World

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  • Listen to Tim Bass's Commentary

As the coordinator of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at UNCW, Tim Bass constantly has the unexpected thrown his way. But there is one constant he can look forward to every afternoon. Today, as our featured community commentator, he shares his favorite lunch with us, with a special visit from The King of Rock and Roll himself. 

Do you have a story or idea you just have to share? Find out how you can become a community commentator.

Commentaries here on WHQR.org don't necessarily reflect the views of WHQR Public Radio, its editorial staff, or its members. 

Local
4:47 pm
Wed April 10, 2013

Renewable energy requirements could be cut back in NC

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A bill working its way through the state legislature would roll back renewable energy requirements for utility companies, but the company that would be most affected - Duke Energy - is not saying much about it. 

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Local
6:00 am
Wed April 10, 2013

Author Ben Miller debuts first memoir with UNCW's Lookout Books

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When author Ben Miller was nine years old he became fascinated with a new invention made by a classmate’s father: a mail-order ice rink. In The Reinvention of Ice, Miller writes about living vicariously through the rink as an escape from the fragmentation of his home life in Davenport, Iowa.  Miller first published the story in the UNCW-based literary journal Ecotone. Miller spoke to WHQR’s Sara Wood about how this story became the impetus for his memoir, River Bend Chronicle, recently published by UNCW’s imprint Lookout Books.      

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Matt Thompson is an Editorial Product Manager at NPR. He works with the Digital Media team and NPR member stations and has helped to coordinate the development of 12 topic-focused local websites.

Before coming to NPR in 2009, Thompson served as the interim Online Community Manager for the Knight Foundation. In May 2009, he completed a Donald W. Reynolds Fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute; where he explored creating context-centric news websites with results that have been widely cited in discussions about online journalism's future.

For four years prior to the Reynolds Fellowship, Thompson served as the deputy web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. His work leading the development, community and production of a socially networked arts-and-entertainment website vita.mn contributed to the site being honored with a Digital Edge Award, "an Edgie," from the Newspaper Association of America' New Media Federation. Also at the Star Tribune, Thompson managed technology and interactivity-related projects for StarTribune.com, from creating an internal taxonomy to transforming the online opinion section into a blog.

As an online reporter/producer for the Fresno Bee from 2004-05, Thompson's work on multimedia projects earned him a first- and third-place 2004 Best of the West award. At the Bee, he led an internal advisory committee exploring the paper's strategies for acquiring new audiences.

Thompson was the Poynter Institute's 2003-04 Naughton Fellow for Online Reporting and Writing. While at Poynter, he and his colleague Robin Sloan produced the Flash movie EPIC 2014. Presenting a picture of the media past set 10 years in the future, the movie was written up in The New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, the Guardian, and on MSNBC. In 2010, Thompson completed a four-year term on Poynter's National Advisory Board.

A graduate with honors in English from Harvard College, Thompson wrote his senior thesis on the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Outside of work, he blogs at Snarkmarket.com, has completed one Twin Cities Marathon and is itching to get ready for another.

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