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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT
The WHQR News Team has recapped several major stories for the year, and now, it’s your turn to let us know what events you think were most important and have had the biggest impact on our community.Then, tune in the week of December 26-30 when WHQR will be airing its 2011 Top Ten Countdown.

#4 News Story of 2011: Defense of Marriage Act

Number four on WHQR’s top ten news story countdown for all of 2011 is the passage of the Defense of Marriage act by the state legislature.

WHQR’s Michelle Bliss reports that North Carolina voters will decide in May on a proposed constitutional amendmentbanning gay marriage in the state.

The Senate voted in September in favor of putting the question on the statewide primary ballot. The amendment would change the state constitution to say that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union recognized by the state.

North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without this kind of language in its constitution.

Early next year, a group opposed to the measure, Equality NC, is launching a 5-month Race to the Ballot campaign in an effort to defeat the amendment at the polls in May.

Tune in Friday as we wrap up WHQR’s 2011 Top Ten Countdown of news stories across the Cape Fear region and state. 

After growing up in Woodbridge, Virginia, Michelle attended Virginia Tech before moving to Wilmington to complete her Master in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. Her reporting and nonfiction writing have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, within the pages of Wrightsville Beach Magazine, and in literary journals like River Teeth and Ninth Letter. Before moving to Wilmington, Michelle served as the general manager for WUVT, a community radio station in Blacksburg, Virginia. She lives with her husband Scott and their pups, Katie, Cooper, and Mosey.