Aidan Lockhart & Regan Butler/The Daily Tar Heel School of Civic Life and Leadership Dean and Director Jed Atkins fired David Decosimo from his associate dean position on Aug. 8. Decosimo remains a tenured associate professor in the school. In addition to the change in leadership, SCiLL’s faculty retention issues have also continued, as two […]
Trey Nemec/CityView Fayetteville City Council members on Monday voted 8-2 to approve a $220,500 contract to renew the city’s use of automated gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter for one year. Council Members Mario Benavente and Deno Hondros voted against the contract renewal. ShotSpotter, which is owned by SoundThinking, covers areas of a city in acoustic sensors […]
Nick Fogleman/Watauga Democrat North Carolina’s Secretary of Commerce Lee Lilley recently visited Watauga County, beginning his trip by delivering school supplies collected through the Governor’s School Supply Drive. The supplies were specifically designated for Watauga County Schools to help relieve pressure on teachers, who often spend out-of-pocket to equip their classrooms. “We know teachers in […]
John Staton/Wilmington StarNews Take a walk around downtown Wilmington and, most of the time, it’s bustling. Not just with patrons of bars and restaurants, something downtown has long been known for, but also with shoppers. For many retail merchants downtown, high traffic “translates well to sales. It’s busy,” said Jake Motsinger, co-owner of Memory Lane […]
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved Wolfspeed’s Chapter 11 reorganization, court records and the company say. Wolfspeed CEO Robert Feurle called Monday’s decision an “important milestone,” given expectations that the company will now be able to reduce its debt load by 70%. Feurle and his team expect the company to emerge from Chapter 11 in […]
Interesting news from Indiana, where Gov. Mike Braun has signaled interest in squeezing the profits of public utilities like Duke Energy to ease rising electricity rates. “Hoosiers have been burdened with utility rate increase after increase,” the Republican said. “We can’t take it anymore.” Charlotte-based Duke’s Indiana subsidiary serves a big chunk of central and […]
My mailbag has brought forth a bit more commentary about House Bill 67, the omnibus healthcare workforce bill that among other things made it a bit easier for foreign-trained doctors to come to North Carolina to practice. One message was from Sen. Benton Sawrey, R-Johnston, who noted that state law already allows them a pathway […]
A group of coastal Republicans has demanded Senate leader Phil Berger’s exclusion from “any and all support from” the party, including access to its official and affiliated functions. According to the 3rd Congressional District’s Republican Party Executive Committee, Berger committed “party disloyalty” in 2022 when he endorsed a a Democratic judicial candidate. But the group’s […]
Michelle Crouch/NC Health News & The Charlotte Ledger For years, Charlotte’s health care market has been dominated by two names: Atrium Health and Novant Health. Between them, the two hospital systems hold a near lock on the region’s hospitals, a growing share of its doctors and much of its specialty care. Now a third player […]
Celeste Gracia/WUNC Radio Under the Trump Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a conservation policy that protects undeveloped areas in national forests. The deadline to submit public comment is Friday, September 19 – three weeks after the comment period opened. “To avoid public backlash, they’ve cut the comment […]
Ben Humphries/Education NC At the State Board of Education’s meeting last Thursday, the Board voted 5-4 to extend an interest-free grace period on the remaining $3.4 million debt in state funds overdrafted by Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS). Starting Oct. 1, per the vote, interest will accrue at a rate of 0.4% per month, and on […]
Trista Talton/Coastal Review Online When the proposed flood insurance rate maps for Onslow County were released back in 2016, Jacksonville officials were surprised to say the least. The preliminary maps created under North Carolina’s Flood Plain Mapping Program shifted more than 800 additional structures in downtown Jacksonville into a high-hazard flood zone. “Jacksonville had the […]
Andrew Marshall/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Operate a hotel for long enough, and eventually you feel like you’ve seen everything. But for Pisgah Inn owner Bruce O’Connell — in the hospitality trenches since 1979 — the last year takes the cake. “I’ve been through sewer plant failures, rockslides, other parkway closures that have been severe and long […]
Jessica Stump & Anna Oakes/Watauga Democrat This fall, Appalachian State University reports continued steady growth, welcoming a record-setting enrollment of 21,798 Mountaineer students — a 1.1% increase over fall 2024. Fall 2025 enrollment at App State was boosted by a 28% rise in online students and the highest-ever number of transfer students. The 2025 census […]
Ashe Post & Times After a year of recovery and New River-clean ups, the New River Conservancy (NRC) and The Conservation Fund are donating a three-acre parcel property to Ashe County to serve as the first public access on the North Fork of the New River. Utilizing donations from across the country and North Carolina’s […]
