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Editor's notes on a week packed with news stories: The DSA’s homemade bus-stop benches cause different flavors of furor, a former Wilmington councilman has some harsh words after the city cuts down oak trees on his street, and the state’s film grant program has spent through its reserve fund — now what?
The Newsroom
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On this edition of The Newsroom, author Lauren Collins joins us to talk about her newest book: They Stole A City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with its Legacy, a project that took her a decade to write.
More Local News
- Meeting planned for environmental officials to discuss clean-up at Navassa Superfund site
- Former New Hanover County elections director petitions state court to review and overturn her termination
- Wilmington event commemorates the death of Allison Jackson Foy, invites families of the missing and murdered
- NHCS board committee advances policy changes on public records, ethics, and academic contracts
- Wilmington said competing bidder for Front Street Bridge contract withdrew. The story is more complicated
- Local Marine veteran hero recognized at Wilmington city council meeting
- Praying for Justice, Part II: How one family is contending with police’s use of deadly force
- Citing possible investigation, NC elections board declines to name allegedly dead voters
- One appeal over Hilton Bluffs development in Sledge Forest resolved, another continued to the fall
- Ask a Journalist: What’s going on with North Carolina’s film grant program?
- Sunday Edition: Meet the Press
- DSA members are building benches for Wave stops. The slogans caused some complaints.
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Dreams Center for Arts Education
- Commentary: Freedom of Religion - Bob Thompson
- "A sense of peace": Wilmington native and painter Barbara Bear Jamison on art and inspiration
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Cavalleria Rusticana
- "Wings of Hope" - Opening Reception Friday, July 24
- Commentary: Freedom Ain’t Free - Jamir Jumoke
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Northchase Library Opening
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: 16th Annual Ocean City Jazz Festival
- Commentary: First in Freedom: Gary Trawick
- Soup to Nuts Live! Featuring Brad Heller and the Fustics| On Air This Weekend
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: An Evening with Natasha Yvette Williams
- Wilmington native Bianca Shaw on her musical journey and getting 'powerful female creatives' to the forefront
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
- 3 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Seattle food festival
- Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'
- Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp becomes a UNESCO World Heritage site
- The quality of Iowa's water is spilling into the state's toss-up governor's race
- Trump orders warning about 'inaccurate information' be placed outside D.C. museum
- With just a few primary elections to go, the competitive Senate map keeps shifting
- Trump administration to announce rules for how states will share the Colorado River
- Trump allies approve new rules that will weaken protections for historic sites
- Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break
- Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages
State News
- NC education commission talks early literacy, teacher pipeline
- I-77 toll lane community benefits package could reach $300 million
- Man running 50K a day for 50 days in 50 states stops in Charlotte
- Attorney General calls on Duke Energy to commit to data center protections for ratepayers
- Camp Lejeune toxic water victims to rally in Jacksonville over stalled claims
- Law enforcement, prosecutors call on NC House to pass hemp regulations
- International Black Theatre Festival returns Monday
- Winston-Salem arts icons honored at Memorial Walk of Fame
- ICE to open immigration detention center in rural N.C. Gov. Stein says he does 'not want it in our state.'
- NC Board of Community Colleges selects new system president
