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New Hanover Community Endowment
Last month, New Hanover County Schools submitted a nearly $9-million grant application to the New Hanover Community Endowment, hoping to boost literacy rates and support pre-K classrooms. WHQR took a closer look at the grant — and at some of NHCS's past grant requests, including one major funded grant and three grants that didn't receive funding.
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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
- Brunswick County Commission rejects request for two more elections employees
- Cape Fear Memorial Bridge will reopen Wednesday night, ahead of schedule
- 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
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, we have Ben join us to revisit the Wilmington Crime Lab lawsuit.
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
- Miss USA and Miss Teen USA resign days apart, casting a spotlight on the organization
- Hawaii is about to make the 'shaka' its official state gesture
- How some U.S. service members built a following on TikTok
- Immigration is a complicated hot button issue. Voters views are complicated too
- Migrant crime is politically charged, but the reality is more complicated
- Tornadoes tear through the southeastern U.S. as storms leave 3 dead
- FTX says it will return money to most of its customers
- A drug company will stop selling lucrative medicine to keep a promise to ALS patients
- Checking in on fast food workers and franchise owners after a month of wage increase
- Republicans and K-12 school leaders clash over handling of antisemitism
State News
- North Carolina environmental committee delays vote on groundwater standards for toxic chemicals
- Federal appeals court sides with Charlotte Catholic High in gay teacher firing case
- Protestors hold rally encouraging UNC-Chapel Hill faculty to withhold grades
- 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
