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On today's show, WHQR's Ben Schachtman and Kelly Kenoyer look at the highlights from the recent candidates forum, held by WHQR, WECT, and Port City Daily, featuring candidates running for Wilmington office. We'll add some context and analysis to the three mayoral candidates' answers to some tough questions.
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- David Sedaris on docents, traveling, and prisons
- NHCS elementary students improving on basic reading comprehension, get mixed results on end-of-grade tests
- Wild Things: A Limited Series WHQR Podcast
- WHQR Presents ... Wild Things: Behind the Scenes at the Sea Turtle Hospital
- Wilmington Housing Authority rolls out new plans for Hillcrest Community
- State healthcare premiums set to increase, some educators see it as another “insult”
- Sunday Edition: Mystery Mailer, plus Novant's MyChart Message
- Brunswick County Schools releases statement on teacher arrest
- Rural government roundup: First responder pay, school bond, and cell towers
- Wilmington Housing Authority gives update on Hillcrest, federal shutdown, and Jervay
- City Council allocates funding for Greenville Loop Roundabout Project
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Hunter Ingram, assistant director of the Burgwin-Wright House
- Entertainer Jason Aycock on dance, directing, and Wilmington's theatre community
- Commentary: Nan Graham
- Soup to Nuts Live! Featuring Rod Abernethy
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Wilmington-based Working Films Celebrating 25th Anniversary
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: "Speaking of Trees" with Rachel Hilburn Lewis and Andy Wood
- Actress, singer, and voice artist Heather Setzler on her acting career and Wilmington's theater scene
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Oskar Espina Ruiz, artistic director of Chamber Music Wilmington
- Grammy-nominated artist Damion Murrill on his family's musical journey and empowering the next generation
- Commentary: Judge Gary Trawick
- "TERRA LUNA" Fourth Friday Reception
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Beth Carter, organizer of the Island Arts Council's Art in the Yard
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
- Judges intervene before SNAP cutoff
- Interns for House members are furloughed, too
- Federal judges order administration to pay SNAP benefits but what's next remains unclear
- What does '67' mean? Dictionary.com's 2025 word of the year has no definition
- Photos: Food banks scramble to get ready as SNAP funding deadline looms
- Families say cost of housing means they'll have fewer or no children
- A judge to weigh in on SNAP benefits. And, Trump wants to resume nuclear testing
- Judge to decide whether SNAP benefits can be cut off Saturday
- With SNAP benefits at risk, U.S. food banks prepare for surge in need
- What has 11 questions and makes you feel smart? Our news quiz!
State News
- Guilford County leadership celebrates economic growth in annual address
- WIC benefits available in NC through November: SNAP to pause amid federal shutdown
- Federal grant aims to help give Helene-impacted farmers mental health support
- Randolph County Commissioner confirms effort to 'reorganize' library board of trustees
- As government shutdown drags on, locals pay to keep Great Smokies open through early January
- PTI launches donation drive for unpaid federal workers
- Discovery of the decade: North Carolina researchers identify new species in Dueling Dinosaur fossil
- Federal halt to SNAP hits school staff, including those who serve your child's lunch
- Manhunt for a man accused of killing his grandmother, stabbing a sheriff’s deputy continues
- What will 2026 bring for North Carolina’s ‘solar coaster’?
