Ray Gronberg
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5. UNC System releases guidance following DEI policy repeal
The UNC System has sent guidance to university chancellors as they make decisions on how to comply with a mandate...
6. Moore County residents voice concerns over motorsports park
The developers for a high-end automotive motorsports track and car resort in northwestern Moore County answered more questions about the...
7. All together now: Haywood Tourism Development Authority eyes countywide approach
It’s been a little under a year since Corrina Ruffieux took over for longtime Haywood County Tourism Development Authority Executive...
8. Chilly relations with county, schools
An ongoing issue over the chiller system at Hiwassee Dam School shows just how chilly relations are between Cherokee County...
9. UNC’s Dean Dome replacement plan moves ahead with $217,000 study
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is moving closer to replacing the Dean Dome, home of its men’s basketball team...
10. Asheville City Schools may freeze positions, cut staff; NC schools face fiscal ‘cliff’
The city school system is looking at freezing some vacant school positions and cutting central office personnel to cope with...
1. Conservatives go to war — against each other — over school vouchers
Drive an hour south of Nashville into the rolling countryside of Marshall County, Tennessee — past horse farms, mobile homes...
2. The most religious, and religiously diverse, places in America
When you map the primary religion in every county in America, the Catholics stand out. As America’s single-largest religious group,...
3. In coastal North Carolina, a legal fight over wetlands protections
A U.S. district court judge has denied a landowner’s attempt to prevent federal regulators from enforcing the Clean Water Act...
4. After Bank of America Stadium vote, the Charlotte mayoral race is on
The race is not to run against Mayor Vi Lyles. But to succeed her, whenever she decides not to run...
5. One year into new abortion limits, N.C. patients and providers struggle to shoulder the load restrictions bring
Katherine Farris has been an abortion provider for more than 20 years, and she says that this past year has...
6. AG Stein sends Novant, county reminder letter of diversity requirements on NHC Endowment board
Three months after a resident group requested Attorney General Josh Stein’s oversight of the New Hanover County Endowment, his office...
7. Tractor Supply announces end of DEI and climate efforts after it ‘disappointed’ customers
Tractor Supply is ending an array of corporate diversity and climate efforts, a move coming after weeks of online conservative...