Michelle R. Smith/The Associated Press A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration. Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine […]
The Carolina Journal The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) has put out a statement condemning the allegations of recorded comments by Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, calling his words “inflammatory, racially derogatory, insulting, and offensive.” Last week Chief Deputy Kevin Canty of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office resigned from his position accusing McFadden of creating […]
Will Doran/WRAL News North Carolina voters may have rejected her at the ballot box Tuesday, but Michele Morrow is hoping President-elect Donald Trump won’t when he takes office in January. Morrow, a Republican homeschooling advocate who lost to Democrat Mo Green in the race to become North Carolina’s superintendent of public schools, is now asking […]
Aarik Long/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer A woman who initially survived a 100-foot tumble after driving over the edge of a missing section of Interstate 40 has since died from her injuries. The driver, a 62-year-old woman from Southern Pines, drove around barricades to access a section of I-40 with numerous washed-out segments. She was airlifted following […]
Mitchell Northam/WUNC Radio Dawn Staley has seen women’s basketball at its apex in Charlotte. For seven of the eight seasons that the Charlotte Sting — one of the original teams in the Women’s National Basketball Association — existed, Staley was playing point guard in a teal-and-purple jersey, making four all-star teams, leading the Sting to […]
Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise High Point police plan to deploy mental health professionals instead of officers to respond to some calls for service. The department will convert three vacant sworn positions to behavioral health specialist and crisis counselor jobs filled by civilians who can be dispatched to non-violent incidents. This “alternate response model” is designed […]
Amy Diaz/WFDD Radio Salem Academy and College will be partnering with Mayfair Hospitality Group to renovate a nearly 100-year-old vacant educational building into a boutique hotel. The project is expected to generate $1 million annually. The hotel, which has yet to be named, will join the likes of The Inn at Elon, The Graylyn Estate […]
UNC System officials have updated their online data dashboards by plugging in the numbers for the fall 2024 cohort of students, so all manner of interesting research is once again possible. For starters, let’s have a look at East Carolina University. There’s a subset of ECU alums who believe the Greenville institution has responded to […]
Former Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson today will start work as the new president and CEO of the N.C. Healthcare Association. The 43-year-old replaces Stephen Lawler, who’s retiring after seven years on the job as the leading voice for the state’s hospitals. Association officials say the hiring was the result of a national search for Lawler’s […]
Speaking of Appalachian State, the Boone institution appears poised to get the UNC System’s permission to issue $19 million in tax-exempt bonds to help finance a new indoor practice facility for its football team. Officials are presenting the deal to the Board of Governors this week. It should save the university and its athletics department […]
Context is everything, and we have to look at whether ECU’s practices stand out amongst the system’s 16 universities. Compared with co-flagships UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, it does. Chapel Hill for the fall 2024 cohort offered admission to 15.3% of the 65,334 recent high school grads who put in an application. NC State […]
Wayne Parry/The Associated Press Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect President-elect Donald Trump to kill an industry he has vowed to end on the first day he returns to the White House. But it might not be that easy. Many of the largest offshore wind companies put a brave face on the election results, […]
Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC With another school year underway, public school districts around North Carolina have recently made headlines. From early college proposals to calendar lawsuits, here’s a brief overview of what you need to know about the happenings across the state. Plus, at the end of the article, a highlight of some good news. […]
Jane Winik Sartwell/Carolina Public Press North Carolina is establishing itself as an indispensable loop on the so-called “battery belt” of southeastern states. Forge Battery’s gigafactory in Morrisville was already under construction — and set to be operational by 2026 — when the company received a $100 million grant from the Department of Energy through the […]
Laura Hackett/Blue Ridge Public Radio Monique Pierre, the Asheville Housing Authority’s CEO and President, was fired yesterday, according to Mayor Esther Manheimer. Manheimer confirmed the firing to BPR on Friday afternoon, after the Asheville Citizen-Times first reported the news. In a text message, she wrote that the housing authority had a board meeting on Nov. […]
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