Grace Vitaglione
Community FellowGrace is a multimedia journalist recently graduated from American University. She's attracted to issues of inequity and her reporting has spanned racial disparities in healthcare, immigration detention and college culture. In the past, she's investigated ICE detainee deaths at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, worked on an award-winning investigative podcast, and produced student-led video stories.
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Twice in a month, a student at Ashley High School was caught with a firearm. The district held a press conference, addressing the issue, suggesting some possible interventions, and looking for outside funding to help deal with the problem.
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During Tuesday’s meeting, Wilmington City Council looked at the coming year’s budget–including how to pay for the Thermo Fisher building downtown–and voted to help fund a senior affordable housing project.
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A new bill in the General Assembly removes the income cap for students receiving a state-funded scholarship to attend private school.
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Railroad repairs will close down a section of Market Street from Saturday, April 29 at 6 a.m. to Tuesday, May 2 by 5 p.m.
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The Brunswick County Board of Elections voted Tuesday to keep their membership in the U.S. Alliance for Elections Excellence, a national elections nonprofit. The decision came after the elections board received pressure from Brunswick County commissioners to withdraw from the organization.
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The music festival, an alternative to the Azalea Festival, will be held this weekend in the Brooklyn Arts District of downtown Wilmington.
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Most of Front Street in downtown Wilmington will be closed this weekend.
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The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina is suing the state for allegedly mismanaging a public resource — that is, fish. The organization argues that the state's fishery management program began as an economic development agency, which has colored its approach since then.
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The fish swimming in the coastal waters of North Carolina belong to the people — they're a public resource. But how the state balances the use of that resource by commercial and recreational fishermen is a contentious issue, made more difficult by the challenge of accurately tracking how many fish are in the water.
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For years, the state of North Carolina has struggled to balance economic interests, environmental concerns, and the public's right to recreational access to natural resources — that is, fish. The issue is complicated by the difficulty of knowing the exact status of many of the state's most popular fish species. On this episode, WHQR's Grace Vitaglione unpacks months of reporting to try and get to the bottom of things.