Top 10 7. Fired by Trump, EEOC official fears what the anti-discrimination agency will become Andrea Hsu/WUNC Radio When Jocelyn Samuels learned through an email late on the evening of Jan. 27 that she was...
Top 10 8. States should invest in postsecondary child care grants Stephanie Baker/New America Like so many parents in the United States, college students with kids are in dire need of...
Top 10 9. Here comes fertility politics Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio The Republican Party has long been against abortion. But in the last few years, some conservatives have...
Top 10 10. ‘A growing mistrust’: Resident sues Brunswick beach town over alleged unlawful actions Savanna Tenenoff/Wilmington StarNews As the Holden Beach Board of Commissioners continue to take action on big ticket projects, residents are...
Top 10 1. NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage David Malakoff/Science In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President...
Top 10 2. Whitewater outfitters say a hurricane made this river more fun, but they can’t get permits to run it Travis Loller/The Associated Press After 24 years of guiding whitewater trips on the Nolichucky River Gorge for other companies, Patrick...
Top 10 3. Midway tries to stay rural while growing as a town Colin Campbell/WUNC Radio Midway, about 15 minutes south of Winston-Salem, wasn’t even a town for most of its history. The...
Top 10 4. 4,000 Garner Amazon workers part of upstart union, want $30 an hour Chris Isidore/CNN North Carolina is a state that is generally hostile to unions. Amazon is a company that is, historically,...
Top 10 5. Board of State Health Plan moves to set premiums based on salary tiers Hannah Vinueza McClellan/EducationNC During a year in which lawmakers are saying there may not be funding for raises, the State...
Top 10 6. Housing committee: ‘Problem has gotten more challenging,’ 85% price increases since 2018 Shea Carver/Port City Daily While progress has been made to the workforce housing market in Wilmington in recent years, there...
Top 10 7. Forsyth County property valuations up by 55% on average April Laissle/WFDD Radio Forsyth County homeowners received notices in the mail this week about big increases in their property valuations....
Top 10 8. Pless and Maggie Valley still at odds: Pless wants to address town board, while mayor wants him to return calls Paul Nielsen/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer Maggie Valley aldermen are perplexed by N.C. House Rep. Mark Pless’ request to speak at the...
Top 10 9. Kannapolis financing request approved by LGC Chandler Inions/The Salisbury Post Local Government Commission (LGC) members voted to approve a financing requests from Kannapolis to obtain N.C....
Top 10 10. City leaders unsatisfied with proposed historic district design standards Evey Weisblat/CityView Walking around downtown Fayetteville, you’ll notice pockets of commercial activity, including bustling ground-floor shops and restaurants. But you’ll...
Top 10 1. Need to untangle Fred’s mess from Helene’s? Hire detectives Kathy N. Ross/The (Waynesville) Mountaineer It seems Haywood’s Soil and Water and Resource Conservation agencies have figured out a way...
