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This week we meet Grace Vitaglione, WHQR's new Community Fellow, and speak to her about what she's excited to work on and bring in Kelly Kenoyer to talk about wind farm development. Then, finally, Ben Schachtman joins us to talk about PolitiFact and fact-checking.
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Nina Repeta is forever recognizable as Bessie Potter, the older sister of Katie Holmes’ character on the iconic TV show, Dawson’s Creek, which continues to find new generations of fans. She's also appeared in several episodes of Matlock (and died several times), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (NOT Fried Green Tomatoes), and Radioland Murders.
The Newsroom
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WHQR's Rachel Keith sits down with Dr. Aswani Volety, UNCW's new chancellor. And WECT investigative reporter Michael Praats helps unpack the history of the Wilmington crime lab — and new allegations about why the Sheriff's office took over managing it.
More Local News
- Finances: Olson-Boseman’s accounts, Jim Morton’s raise, and Project Grace’s lease deal
- New Hanover County is sending more resources into schools. We looked at how and why
- A closer look at the mental health services offered in New Hanover County schools
- Sokoto House graduates inaugural class of Community Health Workers
- CFR: The latest on NHCS, investigating slumlords, and community health workers
- Wilmington’s North Front Street project delayed by six weeks
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- On August 31st, Kimberly Sherman, local Historian, Educator and Writer is giving a lecture at the Burgwin-Wright House called “Behind Enemy Lines: Women in Revolutionary Wilmington, 1775-1783
- Elaine Cynthia Brown Gives Poetry Reading at WHQR's MC Erny Gallery
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Chandler Davis
- "Wings Up for Wilmington" is accepting applications through mid-August
- In the MC Erny Gallery, "Nature Observed: Work by Abby Spangel Perry & Andy Wood"
- The Wilma Daniels Gallery at Cape Fear Community College is presenting Eden Village: A Collective Exhibition through September 2nd
Cape Fear Rundown
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This week we meet Grace Vitaglione, WHQR's new Community Fellow, and speak to her about what she's excited to work on and bring in Kelly Kenoyer to talk about wind farm development. Then, finally, Ben Schachtman joins us to talk about PolitiFact and fact-checking.
Port City Politics
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On this episode: the personal allegations against New Hanover County Chairwoman Julia Olson-Boseman aren't pretty, and some might dismiss them as tabloid fodder. But they help paint a broader picture of the financial and ethical choices made by one of the region's most powerful local elected officials.
National News
- After a stabbing attack, Salman Rushdie can talk and joke
- A man crashed his car and killed himself near the U.S. Capitol, police say
- Death row inmate Richard Glossip facing fourth execution date
- For the first time, the Postal Service features mariachi musicians on stamps
- The 'Gun Dude' and a Supreme Court case that changed who can own firearms in the U.S.
- Your price at the pump went up. So did Saudi Aramco's profits — to a new record
- One person died and 17 others were injured when a car struck a crowd at a fundraiser
- How gender-affirming care may be impacted when clinics that offer abortions close
- 10 years after Austin Tice vanished in Syria, his family continues its fight for him
- Why Salman Rushdie's work sparked decades of controversy
State News
- Sprite's switch from green to clear plastic is welcomed, but is it enough?
- Offshore wind projected to bring at least 14,000 jobs to North Carolina
- Officials tour Gastonia flood project, announce federal grants
- As the climate warms, we can't overlook threat of nighttime heat
- For experimental guitarist Tashi Dorji, the song never remains the same
- Three Charlotte-area counties will defy NC school calendar law and open early
- Teacher group and NC education officials trade strong words on licensure and pay
- NC Democrats are not done trying to keep the ultra-progressive Green Party off the 2022 ballot.
- Meet one of North Carolina's newest residents: the nine-banded armadillo
- NC Green Party claims vindication after US judge orders state to make room for party on ballot
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