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Editor's notes on a week packed with news stories: The DSA’s homemade bus-stop benches cause different flavors of furor, a former Wilmington councilman has some harsh words after the city cuts down oak trees on his street, and the state’s film grant program has spent through its reserve fund — now what?
The Newsroom
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On this edition of The Newsroom, author Lauren Collins joins us to talk about her newest book: They Stole A City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with its Legacy, a project that took her a decade to write.
More Local News
- Former New Hanover County elections director petitions state court to review and overturn her termination
- Wilmington event commemorates the death of Allison Jackson Foy, invites families of the missing and murdered
- NHCS board committee advances policy changes on public records, ethics, and academic contracts
- Wilmington said competing bidder for Front Street Bridge contract withdrew. The story is more complicated
- Local Marine veteran hero recognized at Wilmington city council meeting
- Praying for Justice, Part II: How one family is contending with police’s use of deadly force
- Citing possible investigation, NC elections board declines to name allegedly dead voters
- One appeal over Hilton Bluffs development in Sledge Forest resolved, another continued to the fall
- Ask a Journalist: What’s going on with North Carolina’s film grant program?
- Sunday Edition: Meet the Press
- DSA members are building benches for Wave stops. The slogans caused some complaints.
- Wilmington Fire Department taking applications for firefighter recruits
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Dreams Center for Arts Education
- Commentary: Freedom of Religion - Bob Thompson
- "A sense of peace": Wilmington native and painter Barbara Bear Jamison on art and inspiration
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Cavalleria Rusticana
- "Wings of Hope" - Opening Reception Friday, July 24
- Commentary: Freedom Ain’t Free - Jamir Jumoke
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Northchase Library Opening
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: 16th Annual Ocean City Jazz Festival
- Commentary: First in Freedom: Gary Trawick
- Soup to Nuts Live! Featuring Brad Heller and the Fustics| On Air This Weekend
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: An Evening with Natasha Yvette Williams
- Wilmington native Bianca Shaw on her musical journey and getting 'powerful female creatives' to the forefront
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
- Trump administration to announce rules for how states will share the Colorado River
- Trump allies approve new rules that will weaken protections for historic sites
- Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break
- Meet the robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages
- Wildfire alert in the Western U.S. reaches its highest level
- Biden ghostwriter tapes to be released
- WHCA dinner returns this weekend under heightened security after April shooting
- The bridge is up but the party is off: U.S. and Canada skip joint ribbon-cutting
- 'The show must go on.' Trump makes jabs at rescheduled White House Correspondents' dinner
- Justice Department is offering billions in new grants for police who partner with ICE
State News
- International Black Theatre Festival returns Monday
- Winston-Salem arts icons honored at Memorial Walk of Fame
- ICE to open immigration detention center in rural N.C. Gov. Stein says he does 'not want it in our state.'
- NC Board of Community Colleges selects new system president
- Appalachian State's Team Sunergy qualifies for American Solar Challenge
- ICE plans major new immigrant detention center in eastern North Carolina
- On the campaign trail, Republican Michael Whatley doesn’t talk about Trump like he used to
- 'D.T.?' How two letters can start a 'teen takeover' in Charlotte
- Downtown shootings cast a shadow over Asheville nightlife
- Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant leaks toxic chemical in waters
