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Not long after Katie Gates, a parent of a former Ashley High School student, won her appeal to have the book Stamped effectively removed from the district’s high school curriculum, she put in a public records request asking for more information on the district’s teachers. At the same time, the Board of Education is moving forward with a policy to put additional scrutiny on what materials teachers use and what they say in the classroom.
CoastLine
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In each episode of In The Wild Coastal Plain, we meet a plant or an animal endemic to the southeastern North Carolina biodiversity hotspot – so we can better understand our coastal plain ecosystem and who lives here with us.Today, we’re exploring Holly Shelter, a nature preserve and game land in Pender County that boasts tens of thousands of acres -- one of the last great pieces of connected natural area in southeastern North Carolina. That’s because humans are rapidly building all around it.
The Newsroom
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On this episode, Kelly Kenoyer sits down with Wilmington Mayor Pro-Tem Margaret Haynes to talk about what's actually with the city's power to do — an important thing to know ahead of this year's municipal elections. Plus, Ben Schachtman talks to a 'blue' and a 'red' from Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to repairing the political divide in the United States.
More Local News
- "Shut the hell up!": Brunswick County development meeting gets heated
- Donna Fayko, health and human services director for New Hanover County, abruptly resigns
- NHC Commissioners appoint Woody, Kusek to New Hanover Community Endowment in party-line vote
- CFR: It's WHQR's Fall Pledge Drive!
- Former NHC commissioners White and Kusek seek appointment to New Hanover Community Endowment
- Help Us Meet Our 2023 Fall Pledge Drive Goal!
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- STNL! Featuring The Brewer Brothers
- WHQR Mourns Long-Time Friend Madafo Lloyd Wilson
- Sound Waves: work by Renato Abbate & Anne McCombie
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Blank Canvas Awareness Art
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Art in the Yard & UNCW's Kenan Auditorium
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: India Day
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we dig into the complicated world of cannabanoids and drug laws. Plus, the latest on the civil suit filed by the former director of the drug lab once run by the Wilmington Police Department, and a trip down the rabbit hole of North Carolina's notoriously opaque Grand Jury system.
National News
- Bus carrying high school students to band camp crashes, killing 2 adults
- Bags of fentanyl found beneath trap floor of day care center where 1-year-old died
- 'Not sure where the airplane is,' pilot told 911 dispatcher after F-35 ejection
- Tropical storm warning puts mid-Atlantic coast under threat of winds and flooding
- Mexico is defending an undocumented immigrant arrested under a new Florida law
- Rupert Murdoch, media magnate and Fox News founder, steps down
- Builders are finding ways to keep home prices in reach despite high interest rates
- A West Texas city is seeing a tense battle of book censorship and bans
- Fast approaching UAW strike deadline could expand walkouts to more auto plants
- Biden extends Temporary Protected Status to nearly 400,000 Venezuelan Migrants
State News
- After her switch to GOP, Tricia Cotham helped hometown Mint Hill secure millions in state budget
- NC receives more than $4 million in federal funds to improve maternal health
- Appeals Court takes up transgender heath coverage cases from North Carolina and West Virginia
- Long, tense meetings and conflict of interest questions mark Catawba schools' book battles
- NC House, Senate pass budget mostly along party lines
- North Carolina coastal group invites public to help protect 'nursery of the sea'
- Medicaid expansion in North Carolina approaches finish line after budget agreement
- SC solar tech company moving its HQ to Charlotte's South End
- NC budget to expand private school vouchers and strip power from State Board of Education
- 13 noteworthy things in the newly released NC budget