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President Joe Biden visited Wilmington today to announce a total of $250 million in funding to replace lead pipes around North Carolina.
Wrightsville Beach Elementary/NHCS
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Wrightsville Beach Elementary/NHCS
A closer look at NHCS parents' groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity
New Hanover County
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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
- Leland town council to vote on new budget in two weeks
- DEQ submits Human Health Risk Assessment on 1,4-Dioxane
- National Bike Month: Vision Zero, and a new tool evaluates media coverage of bicycle and pedestrian deaths
- Nearly every house in Wilmington could be allowed an ADU starting in May
- Checking the record: NCDEQ never held Chemours accountable for missing its 'barrier wall' deadline
- CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI
- Former CFCC department chair: 'Who's behind the wheel?'
- CFCC employees cited pressure to fabricate information prior to accreditation warning, compliance staff 'nonrenewed'
- A new technology to remove PFAS from drinking water is undergoing a pilot in Wilmington
- The question of Master's pay for North Carolina teachers
- CFPUA could be a guide for how utilities can meet the EPA's new drinking water standards
- Three employees resign following Elizabeth Craver's reinstatement as Pender County Clerk of Court
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- 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
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Dorothy Gillespie documentary
- Robert Bellamy, aka ScaleHamHawk da Poet, talks about his work, his muse, and his name
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
- Scientists welcome new rules on marijuana, but research will still face obstacles
- Have you seen this emotional support gator? Wally's owner says he's lost in Georgia
- Apple shows its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since pandemic's outset
- Maryland gets tough on youth crime while trying to help young offenders thrive
- What are college students potentially risking when they engage in protests?
- Blues legend Sugar Pie DeSanto reflects on decades of being on stage
- Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting
- Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discrimination
- After a boom in cash aid to tackle poverty, some states are now banning it
- Which celebrity feud escalated this week? Find out in the news quiz
State News
- Native American tribes across the U.S. attend graduation feather ceremony in North Carolina
- BPR Weekly News Round-Up: Buncombe Co. budget, Malvern Hills pool, Indigenous justice
- Slavery by another name: New NC historical marker acknowledges post-Civil War convict laborers
- There's still a final challenge to NC's photo ID voting law. The federal trial starts Monday
- NC Republican congressional candidate drops out just days before runoff election
- More than $480K raised for UNC-Chapel Hill frat party, but who is behind the GoFundMe?
- UNC Chapel Hill social justice hub ‘closed indefinitely’ by administrators after pro-Palestine protests
- Bittersweet joy as Methodists in Charlotte repeal LGBTQ bans
- NC voucher expansion debate highlights starkly different approaches to education spending
- UNC faculty discuss next steps following protests on campus
