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At Tuesday’s New Hanover Board of Education meeting, members passed a last-minute motion to restrict flags and displays in classrooms and on school grounds. But legal records show the district's legal counsel has been researching the issue for months.
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The Newsroom
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The affordable housing crisis is national in scope, but it’s uniquely painful in the South because of low wages and surging demand. So what are some creative solutions to this rapidly growing and intractable problem? Backyard cottages? Flipping hotels into rental housing? Or building out job training programs? We asked smart people in the housing space what they consider the most effective strategies to improve housing with help from the New Hanover Community Endowment.
More Local News
- Registration open for new NHC alerting system
- CFR: The Wilmington crime lab lawsuit updates
- New Hanover High School lockdown lifted, suspect arrested
- Leland town council to vote on new budget in two weeks
- President Joe Biden visits Wilmington to announce funding to replace lead pipes
- A closer look at NHCS parents' groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity
- Editor's Note: Questions about Woody White's rebuke of DEI elicit muted responses, and a little snark
- DEQ submits Human Health Risk Assessment on 1,4-Dioxane
- 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
Culture / Arts / Inside HQR
- Around Town With Rhonda Bellamy: Little Women
- 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
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 dig into the complicated world of cannabanoids and drug laws. Plus, the latest on the civil suit filed by the former director of the drug lab once run by the Wilmington Police Department, and a trip down the rabbit hole of North Carolina's notoriously opaque Grand Jury system.
National News
- A lawmaker with a brain disease used voice assist to back her bill on the House floor
- Scientists at Berkeley develope a tool to help cities measure carbon emissions
- In NYC and LA, police response to campus protests draws sharp criticism
- The FDA misses its own deadline to propose a ban on formaldehyde from hair products
- Migrant arrivals stretched Denver's budget. Now, the city is scaling back aid
- Migrants claiming asylum can be allowed into the U.S. Here's how it works
- Panera says it will stop serving 'Charged Sips' drinks at center of lawsuits
- Some student protesters aren't deterred by the prospect of punishment
- Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is delayed indefinitely by judge
- Colm Toibin vowed to never write a sequel. Until 'Long Island'
State News
- NC House passes expanded antisemitism definition with bipartisan support
- In Republican runoff, state auditor candidates offer contrasting visions for watchdog agency
- Fact Check: Is GOP superintendent candidate right on claims about school safety?
- New report links rate increases for Duke Energy customers mostly to natural gas volatility
- NC charter board approves big expansion for two low-performing Charlotte schools
- Proposed NC antisemitism legislation faces backlash over First Amendment concerns
- Lawsuit against Durham County Sheriff’s Office over jail policy records continues despite hurdles
- NC Senate Republicans want to restrict masks at protests
- UNC Charlotte disbands Gaza protest encampment, forbids Tuesday march
- After years of delays, NC voter ID trial begins in Winston-Salem
