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Following months of backlash from anti-taxation activists, the Leland town council voted on Thursday to approve the $46 million budget. That plan includes a 17% property tax increase, or a four cent increase from last year's rate of 23 cents per $100.
The Newsroom
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The affordable housing crisis is national in scope, but it’s uniquely painful in the South because of low wages and surging demand. So what are some creative solutions to this rapidly growing and intractable problem? Backyard cottages? Flipping hotels into rental housing? Or building out job training programs? We asked smart people in the housing space what they consider the most effective strategies to improve housing with help from the New Hanover Community Endowment.
More Local News
- NC Black Film Festival award winner Chris Everett talks "Wilmington on Fire" and its forthcoming sequel
- New Hanover County needs more foster families
- NHC school board votes 4-3 to ask county commissioners for an additional $4.6 million
- Community Advisory Council says it's been largely ignored by NHC Endowment, asks for more engagement
- NHC students win state history prize for project on Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre
- CFR: What's going on at NHRMC?
- "The end of Port City United”: Judge excoriates PCU violence interrupter facing drug and weapons charges
- Wilmington deputy city manager had DUI dismissed, expunged. DA looking to refile charges
- How to: Building an accessory dwelling unit in Wilmington
- A look NHCS's Endowment requests, past and present
- Brunswick County Commission rejects request for two more elections employees
- NHC school board passes snap motion to limit flags, displays in classrooms
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Cinematique Presents: Challengers
- Rock, Paper, Stitch
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Little Women
- STNL! Featuring: The Benny Hill Ensemble
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Rissi Palmer and September Krueger
- Comedian Meghan Cook on her origins in stand-up, and advice for aspiring comics
- Cape Fear Conversations: Health Equity
- Docutime Film Festival celebrates its 20th year
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Grahamland Amusements
- Cinematique Presents: The Beast
- Cinematique Presents: Problemista
- Cinematique Presents: Wicked Little Letters
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly joins us to talk about a joint city and county homelessness meeting, and then Ben joins us to go over diversity, equity and inclusion and it's potential fate locally.
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we look at some red flags that were apparently overlooked ahead of a massive fire at a construction in Charlotte, the increasing number of partisan Boards of Education, and the ongoing case against two Asheville journalists who were arrested while covering a police raid on a homeless encampment.
National News
- Scottie Scheffler is arrested outside PGA Championship after interaction with police
- Biden focuses on outreach to Black Americans; Billie Eilish finds herself
- 'Morning Edition' listeners share their favorite prom memories
- 20 years ago Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriage
- The Biden administration is ending new leases in America's top coal region
- Ex-Army sergeant, convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester, is pardoned
- 2 sisters remember who gave them the love they were missing in foster care
- Family of Black U.S. airman seeks answers after fatal shooting by Florida deputy
- What did the internet call 'satanic'? Find out in the news quiz
- Arrests at the U.S. border fall in April, bucking usual spring increase
State News
- RFK Jr., Constitution Party nearing ballot access in North Carolina as deadlines loom
- After generating millions for NC in 2023, NASCAR All-Star Race again returns to North Wilkesboro
- Canton paper mill has prospective new owner, but Pactiv Evergreen ‘still on the hook,’ mayor says
- Wawa’s first store location in North Carolina has officially opened
- Alamance-Burlington budget proposal cuts vacant positions, avoids layoffs
- UNC-Chapel Hill to 'take action' against protesters who participated in recent campus demonstrations
- ‘Big milestone’ as NCDOT awards contract for I-26 Connector through Asheville
- With smaller budget surplus, NC House looks for other funding for private school vouchers
- Protesters interrupt UNC Trustees meeting, following vote to redirect DEI funding to campus police
- Elon poll shows broad fears of AI interference in 2024 presidential race
