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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week we’re going to start off talking to Ben about something that’s been frustrating parents to no end. Then, we talk to Grace about the plans to dredge the Wilmington harbor again, and finally we talk to Kelly about how affiliates get their stories on the air to a national audience.
CoastLine
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One photojournalist from North Carolina influenced the civil rights struggle in the United States, enjoyed a friendship with President Richard Nixon, was a member of the first African American press delegation on an official U.S. diplomatic trip overseas, and descended from one of the victims of the Wilmington 1898 coup d’etat. Alexander Rivera, Jr. also lit a fire in the imagination of UNCW History Professor Glen Harris, who wrote his biography: Social Justice and Liberation Struggles: The photojournalistic and public relations career of Alexander McAllister Rivera Junior
The Newsroom
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On today's show, we sit down with New Hanover County Schools district Superintendent Dr. Charles Foust about his reaction to an increase in guns and drugs on school campus. Then, WHQR's Kelly Kenoyer has an exit interview with Marie Parker, who helped right the ship at WAVE as executive director for the last two years.
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- Ask a Journalist: What are the new traffic controls popping up around Wilmington?
- New Hanover County Schools loses another chief communication officer, the fourth in four years
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week we’re going to start off talking to Ben about something that’s been frustrating parents to no end. Then, we talk to Grace about the plans to dredge the Wilmington harbor again, and finally we talk to Kelly about how affiliates get their stories on the air to a national audience.
Port City Politics
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This week, we're looking into efforts to remove Certificates of Need, or CONs, the state regulations that curb competition in the healthcare industry. Plus, Representative Ted Davis puts on a spectacular show of semantics, and CFCC President Jim Morton gets a $38,000 raise — because, of course, he does.
National News
- Republican-led Texas House impeaches state Attorney General Ken Paxton
- 2 more Oath Keepers are sentenced to prison terms for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
- A day in the life of a New York City subway rider trying to break a record
- A service dog gets his own college diploma, winning huge cheers
- The Texas AG may be impeached by members of his own party. Here are the allegations
- A judge halts South Carolina's new abortion law pending state Supreme Court review
- How GOP candidates are playing to the evolving conservative base
- He fled the war in Ukraine at 14. Now in New York, he has grand plans
- Student sues school district over denied request to wear a sash at graduation
- This obscure program lets Americans donate to help pay off the national debt
State News
- Once again, UNC System President gains new role in choosing chancellors
- Another climate threat: an increase in 'fire weather days'
- GOP state lawmakers set on keeping North Carolina out of voter list maintenance compact
- Listen to the final whistle of the Canton paper mill
- Company behind a digital court filing system in North Carolina now faces a class-action lawsuit
- Who pays for NC schools? State underfunding could shift the burden to homeowners
- Italian EV charger company picks Charlotte for US headquarters
- How the mental health system affects North Carolina’s jails and the people that work there
- Duke Energy rates rising 4.8% on June 1 for Asheville, eastern NC
- Looser regulations could benefit UNC and BCBSNC, but consumer advocates worry
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