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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.
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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 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
- Composers reimagined some of the most iconic 'Final Fantasy' songs in 'Rebirth'
- No greeting the meat: Florida bans selling or manufacturing lab-grown meat
- Maternal mortality went down in 2022 after spiking in 2021, new CDC report shows
- Federal judges have a code of ethics but often aren't held accountable, NPR finds
- How university endowments operate
- Whistleblower Joshua Dean, who raised concerns about Boeing jets, dies at 45
- Biden says he supports the right to protest but denounces 'chaos' and hate speech
- The U.S. may be missing human cases of bird flu, scientists say
- NYC mayor says 'outside agitators' are co-opting Columbia protests—students disagree
- Arizona legislature votes to repeal the state's Civil War-era ban on abortion
State News
- NC Republican congressional candidate drops out just days before runoff election
- 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
- 'It's bad all around': Charlotte mourns deadliest shooting of law officers in city history
- Charlotte filmmaker explores the history and impact of climate change in Black communities in the South
