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A closer look at NHCS parents' groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity
There are wide disparities between what different New Hanover County Schools' parent-teacher associations and organizations around the district can raise. WHQR explored this topic with researchers and leaders of these organizations to see how significant resources can make an impact — and how some groups with a smaller fundraising capacity are making do.
The Newsroom
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On this episode, Ben Schachtman and Rachel Keith sit down with John Biewen and Michael Betts, writers and co-hosts of Echoes of a Coup — the sixth season of the Scene on Radio podcast from Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. The five-part series takes a deep dive into Wilmington’s 1898 coup and massacre.
More Local News
- National Bike Month: Vision Zero, and a new tool evaluates media coverage of bicycle and pedestrian deaths
- Nearly every house in Wilmington could be allowed an ADU starting in May
- Checking the record: NCDEQ never held Chemours accountable for missing its 'barrier wall' deadline
- CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI
- Former CFCC department chair: 'Who's behind the wheel?'
- CFCC employees cited pressure to fabricate information prior to accreditation warning, compliance staff 'nonrenewed'
- A new technology to remove PFAS from drinking water is undergoing a pilot in Wilmington
- The question of Master's pay for North Carolina teachers
- CFPUA could be a guide for how utilities can meet the EPA's new drinking water standards
- Three employees resign following Elizabeth Craver's reinstatement as Pender County Clerk of Court
- For a second year, WFD says mental health support is its top priority
- Recently published study looks at healthcare and race, including in North Carolina
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- STNL! Featuring: The Benny Hill Ensemble
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Rissi Palmer and September Krueger
- Comedian Meghan Cook on her origins in stand-up, and advice for aspiring comics
- Cape Fear Conversations: Health Equity
- Docutime Film Festival celebrates its 20th year
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Grahamland Amusements
- Cinematique Presents: The Beast
- Cinematique Presents: Problemista
- Cinematique Presents: Wicked Little Letters
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Dorothy Gillespie documentary
- Robert Bellamy, aka ScaleHamHawk da Poet, talks about his work, his muse, and his name
- Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: Madafo Day
Evenings on 92.7fm Classical HQR
Cape Fear Rundown
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Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly joins us to talk about a joint city and county homelessness meeting, and then Ben joins us to go over diversity, equity and inclusion and it's potential fate locally.
Port City Politics
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On this episode, we look at some red flags that were apparently overlooked ahead of a massive fire at a construction in Charlotte, the increasing number of partisan Boards of Education, and the ongoing case against two Asheville journalists who were arrested while covering a police raid on a homeless encampment.
National News
- Sexual abuse hotlines see a surge in calls after Weinstein's overturned conviction
- Immigrant assistance is unsustainable without congressional action, officials say
- There's a long history of accusations of outside players influencing student protests
- Trump lawyers tried to discredit witness who represented 2 women in hush money trial
- Tesla hit an unexpected team with hundreds of layoffs
- There's been only one human case of bird flu in this outbreak. Are we missing others?
- The long road ahead for Ukraine after secured military assistance from the U.S.
- 'The Fall Guy' entertains as an action-adventure romcom while revealing movie magic
- Biden denounced 'chaos' when speaking on student protests
- This week in science: biodegradable plastic, crops on Mars and deer vs. caribou
State News
- There's still a final challenge to NC's photo ID voting law. The federal trial starts Monday
- NC Republican congressional candidate drops out just days before runoff election
- More than $480K raised for UNC-Chapel Hill frat party, but who is behind the GoFundMe?
- UNC Chapel Hill social justice hub ‘closed indefinitely’ by administrators after pro-Palestine protests
- Bittersweet joy as Methodists in Charlotte repeal LGBTQ bans
- NC voucher expansion debate highlights starkly different approaches to education spending
- UNC faculty discuss next steps following protests on campus
- NC Senate committee votes to double funding for private school vouchers
- Fact Check: Attack ad accuses GOP congressional candidate of being attorney for Biden
- UNC-Chapel Hill protests disperse after intense Tuesday with 30 arrests