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July 2024

Posted inPolitics

UNC Frats Get Center Stage At RNC

by Erin Gretzinger July 18, 2024February 5, 2025

The Trump campaign invited members of UNC fraternities who protected the flag to the Republican National Convention. Not everyone was enthused.

Posted inHigher Education

NCSU’s Randy Woodson Announces Retirement

by Erin Gretzinger July 18, 2024February 5, 2025

Woodson stayed nearly three times longer than most college leaders. Now the UNC System must undertake yet another chancellor search.

shoppers under a tent selling bigfoot merchandise
Posted inPlace

Yeti or Not, Here They Come

by Emily Cataneo July 18, 2024February 24, 2025

What is it about North Carolina that attracts the Sasquatch-curious?

Several days before the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, the New Hanover County Democratic Party Chair's car was vandalized. (Courtesy of Jill Hopman)
Posted inElections

A Heated Political Moment

by Johanna F. Still July 17, 2024January 17, 2025

Vandals have allegedly damaged Democrats’ property at least twice this month amid a national conversation about political violence.

Posted inEnvironment

River Rescue

by Storms Reback July 17, 2024October 25, 2024

The governor keeps asking for more money to protect waterways. Citizen scientists are taking up the slack.

Posted inElections

The Greensboro City Council Is About To Get A Lot of New Faces

by Joe Killian July 16, 2024June 21, 2025

Big changes could be in store with at least four, and possibly six, current members departing next year.

Tanya Robinson talks with supporters.
Posted inPolitics

How Blue-Collar Candidates Could Change Politics

by Barry Yeoman July 15, 2024September 26, 2024

An upstart effort to get more working-class people to run for political office takes root in Ashe and Alamance counties.

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