Ray Gronberg
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6. NC charter board approves big expansion for two low-performing Charlotte schools
North Carolina’s charter school board voted Monday to let two low-performing schools in Charlotte expand dramatically next year. The votes...
7. New report links rate increases for Duke Energy customers mostly to natural gas volatility
Many Duke Energy customers saw higher energy bills last year due to a sharp increase in natural gas prices, according...
8. Rooted in rural: Schools as anchor institutions
North Canton Elementary in Haywood County only runs one morning bus route, and at the wheel is Carol Harkins. She...
9. Fisheries Division seeks to delay mandatory catch reporting
State fisheries officials are asking lawmakers for another year to roll out a new harvest reporting requirement for coastal recreational...
10. Jurors should have considered stand-your-ground defense in sawed-off shotgun killing, judges rule
A man convicted of killing his landlord’s adult son with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because...
8. Dean’s List: What’s next for UNC’s Campus Y? A new committee is tasked with deciding
When UNC-Chapel Hill administrators closed the Campus Y building this spring, outcry from students and alumni was immediate. And while...
9. North Carolina’s new anonymous anti-poaching program leads to multiple arrests, convictions
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission said its anonymous reporting program has been helpful in apprehending poachers since launching last...
1. ‘They need to back off’: Farm states push back on Biden’s bird flu response
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is at odds with state officials and the dairy industry over its on-the-ground...
2. Federal lawsuit: Mission/HCA illegally kept pay of 1,000 hospital, other workers
A newly filed federal lawsuit says the HCA-owned Mission Health system illegally withheld pay of 1,000 or more employees. The...
3. Chasing Gen Z voters: Sweeping water uphill?
A month ago, I spoke to students at a UNC Charlotte political science class. I talked about the Biden campaign...
4. Aberdeen looks at historic preservation, revitalization
Aberdeen plans to examine its historic guidelines for commercial buildings, wanting to balance preservation of historic structures in its downtown...
5. Former employees say short-staffed NC psych hospital rife with violence, abuse
In June last year, 11-year-old Henry picked up a sharp object and threatened to harm himself and his mother. It...
6. There are 21 food deserts in Winston-Salem, a legacy of racist redlining that persists today
The aroma of blackened chicken, pasta and sugar cookies filled a room at Samaritan Ministries, where outside a narrow doorway,...