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North Carolina shrimpers have advocated for tariffs on imports for decades.
Johanna F. Still
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The Assembly
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The Dive: Some N.C. Businesses Are Actually Happy About Tariffs; Point, Counterpoint...ish
Benjamin Schachtman
On this week's edition of The Dive, Johanna Still from The Assembly looks at North Carolina businesses who are actually quite enthusiastic about President Trump's tariffs, and WHQR's Ben Schachtman follows up on how UNCW's neutrality policy shapes (or doesn't) the type of public events held on campus.
The Terry Benjey Bicycling Foundation h
The Terry Benjey Bicycling Foundation
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WHQR
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Pinpointing the most dangerous places to walk and bike in Wilmington
Kelly Kenoyer
Dan Parks and his wife with Svetlana, Natallia, and their children.
Dan Parks
Local
Ukrainians in Wilmington are uncertain about their future
Rachel Keith
The Newsroom
  • Healthy Opportunities Pilot shows cost savings for Medicaid: “It’s a hand up”
    On today’s show, host Rachel Keith talks about the groundbreaking Healthy Opportunities Pilot—one of the first in the country—where some Medicaid recipients get assistance for food, rent and utilities, and counseling for interpersonal violence or toxic stress needs. Service providers helping these people get reimbursements from the HOP program.
More Local News
Officers of the Wilmington Police Department and State Bureau of Investigations on the scene of a shooting in the Holly Glen neighborhood of Wilmington. The suspect, 40-year-old David Jacobs, fired shots at police with a rifle Thursday morning. The responding officers shot back leaving him in critical condition, after WPD tried using less lethal methods.
  1. Wilmington man in critical condition after firing shots at law enforcement
  2. Carolina Beach approves plan to become more pedestrian and cyclist friendly
  3. A little background on the perennial Wrightsville Beach parking debate
  4. Here's what happened at the first New Hanover County Education Focus Forum
  5. Federal policy is causing chaos in the affordable housing sphere
  6. Study shows Cape Fear Healthy Opportunities Pilot saves Medicaid money
  7. The Dive: A Wilmington Widow’s Spiked State Appointment; Chainsaw and Consolidations?
  8. Sunday Edition: Grace Note; Sense and Censure
  9. In a packed room, New Hanover County school board member was censured along party lines
  10. Residents ask Wrightsville Beach to implement free parking on weeknights
  11. Former Pender County commissioner rejoins the board
  12. Rents are on the rise in Pender and Brunswick, but have steadied in New Hanover County
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
  1. Mahlaynee Cooper, a.k.a. Carrie Assata, on speaking truth, poetic heroines, and her musical side
  2. Doug Benson: From Dead Crow Comedy to Carnegie Hall, podcasting to the 'Mount Rushmore' of cannabis users
  3. From the Mouths of Babes Theatre talks latest project and "documentary theater"
  4. Actor's Arsenal: Ron Fallica talks acting, coaching, and making a professional life in Wilmington
  5. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Brian Whitted & Justin Allen Tate
  6. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Christopher Marino
  7. Commentary: Gwenyfar Rohler – Pete Seeger
  8. Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Angelo Galeotti, NC Jazz Festival President
  9. Cinematique Presents: A Complete Unknown - MATINEES ADDED, SHOWS SELLING OUT
  10. Fourth Friday Art Gallery: "A Life in Color"
  11. STNL! Featuring Acisse Jay
  12. Cinematique Presents: 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
  1. White House solicits corporate sponsors for its Easter Egg Roll event
  2. Supreme Court suspends Trump administration's deportations to foreign prisons
  3. Anti-Trump protests this weekend turn focus to community action
  4. Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law
  5. Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under Alien Enemies Act
  6. Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding
  7. Amtrak will take over renovation of New York's Penn Station. Some riders have doubts
  8. Some asylum seekers wonder if it's worth staying in the U.S. to fight their cases
  9. Is marriage worth it? Single women say no
  10. Sandtown neighborhood works to heal, and thrive 10 years after Freddie Gray
State News
When the Yadkin River slows down before the High Rock Dam, causing more sediment to deposit near the pump station. That extra sediment increases flooding near the pump station.
  1. FEMA leaves NC flood-resiliency programs high and dry
  2. North Carolinians can still apply for the SBA loan disaster relief program after deadline extension
  3. Vance County jail struggles to meet NCDHHS’ new staffing order
  4. Q&A: What is the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission? And why is it on the chopping block?
  5. A Wilmington Republican is once again pushing for Chemours to pay for filtration of forever chemicals
  6. Should 'The Andy Griffith Show' be an official state symbol in NC?
  7. A state-funded program helped this 19-year-old finish college
  8. A Greensboro homeowner wants out of the city limits. Will state lawmakers intervene?
  9. Parent committees could ban school library books under NC House bill
  10. NC's solar farms don't pay taxes on nearly $6 billion in equipment. A House bill would change that.
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