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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
With limited funding going back into the Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program and plans underway to create a health-focused care hub in New Hanover County, some local nonprofit leaders are staying optimistic.
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This year's WHQR luncheon guest was Tamara Keith, Senior Political Correspondent and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Keith spoke about covering the president, the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and her new series, Swing Shift, a long-term project to document the perspectives of voters in swing states. Keith also took questions from our audience and sat down with WHQR News Director Ben Schachtman.
More Local News
- New Hanover County could re-enter affordable housing sector, as a low-interest lender
- North Carolina Governor Josh Stein vetoes homeless camping ban
- North Carolina is now taking applications for boating infrastructure grants
- Who is on the NC Utilities Commission? How do they decide on Duke Energy’s rate hikes?
- Final impact report released for Wilmington's harbor dredging project
- New Hanover County's newest library opens this week
- State approved New Hanover County’s choice for elections director
- UNCW Upperman family pulling future scholarship funds over UNC System’s equality policy
- Sunday Edition: America at 250 — Red, White, and a Little Blue
- WECT INVESTIGATES: Wilmington officials spend $30,000 on DC trip
- Eastern North Carolina could see extreme heat over the Independence Day weekend
- State budget will defund IOLTA, leaving many poor North Carolinians without civil legal support.
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Commentary: Freedom Ain’t Free - Jamir Jumoke
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: 16th Annual Ocean City Jazz Festival
- Commentary: Freedom of Religion - Bob Thompson
- Commentary: First in Freedom: Gary Trawick
- Soup to Nuts Live! Featuring Brad Heller and the Fustics| On Air This Weekend
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: An Evening with Natasha Yvette Williams
- Wilmington native Bianca Shaw on her musical journey and getting 'powerful female creatives' to the forefront
- Soup to Nuts Live! The Little Mercies
- Commentary: The American Revolutionary War & the Two Scotlands - Alan Sturrock
- New art gallery and supply store on Castle Street offers art for everybody
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Summer at CAM
- Commentary: Shannon Gentry “What does public service mean?”
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
National News
- How to deal with seesawing gas prices
- OUTDOOR ACCESS FOR DISABLED IN VERMONT
- Class action suit against AI makers over deepfake child sexual abuse material expands
- Former Olympian pleads not guilty in reflecting pool vandalism charge
- Former coach at Bucknell University charged in death of freshman football player
- Repairs continue at New York building after structural failure prompted evacuation
- A Florida airport is officially renamed for Trump. What does he stand to gain?
- New aviation mechanics graduate with jobs in hand, thanks to a labor shortage
- Community calls for answers after fatal shooting of unarmed Houston man by ICE agent
- Trump flies partway home from Turkey in an old Air Force One
State News
- The things Hurricane Helene carried away — and the woman trying to return them
- UNCSA alumni receive multiple Emmy nominations
- Meet the wildlife cinematographer filming Asheville's bears for a global audience on the BBC
- The Tennessee Valley Authority's new draft energy plan moves the public utility even further away from renewables
- Elkin City Schools launches survey for superintendent search
- Lexington weighs request tied to major economic development project
- Trump pardons Hendersonville mechanic, formerly convicted of violating the Clean Air Act
- Stein signs budget law, enacting raises across state government, teachers
- Davie County passes one-year data center moratorium
- High overnight temperatures are increasing heat risk in the Carolinas
