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The five-member commission regulates the state’s monopolies. Now they are considering a rate request by Duke Energy with expert testimony starting today.
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This year's WHQR luncheon guest was Tamara Keith, Senior Political Correspondent and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Keith spoke about covering the president, the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and her new series, Swing Shift, a long-term project to document the perspectives of voters in swing states. Keith also took questions from our audience and sat down with WHQR News Director Ben Schachtman.
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Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: 16th Annual Ocean City Jazz Festival
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- Soup to Nuts Live! The Little Mercies
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National News
- Job cuts at federal soil conservation agency has farmers worried
- The battle over who should run the United States' 'Food for Peace' program
- Data Centers on the fast track have officials racing to catch up and offer regulations
- Every year hundreds of teenagers come together to judge dirt
- Reigning champion Argentina escapes with remarkable World Cup victory over Egypt
- As climate change damages streets and highways, the road ahead may be expensive
- Heirs of 'odious' 169-year-old Supreme Court ruling see modern parallels
- How a tiny fleck of gold changed American history
- Commemorative passports featuring Trump draw both delight and ire
- Trump administration accuses Smithsonian museum of 'extreme political activism'
State News
- Stein signs budget law, enacting raises across state government, teachers
- Davie County passes one-year data center moratorium
- High overnight temperatures are increasing heat risk in the Carolinas
- Randolph commission appoints library trustees amid pushback
- UNC Health purchases Westgate Shopping Center as it seeks to build new hospital in Asheville
- Through anti-displacement project, Asheville hopes to prevent existing residents from being priced out
- Greensboro History Museum wants to take your portrait
- Electric grid upgrades planned across four counties
- What you need to know about drought in North Carolina
- Winston-Salem police issue first youth curfew citations
