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October 2023

Posted inBusiness

Challengers Sweep SECU Election

by Carli Brosseau October 10, 2023October 11, 2023

People across the country have been watching the rare contested board election at the country’s second-largest credit union.

Posted inBooks

Time and Tide Times Two

by Wiley Cash October 6, 2023May 30, 2024

Two books take on the changing state of the Outer Banks. 

Posted inBusiness

Public-Private Pitfall

by Johanna F. Still October 5, 2023January 17, 2025

A failed attempt to include affordable housing in a downtown mixed-use development highlights the complications of big ideas in cooler economic times.

Posted inCulture

The Ambiguous Artisan

by Matt Hartman October 4, 2023October 4, 2023

Thomas Day was a free man of color who owned slaves. He also might have been an abolitionist.

Posted inCourts

Wheels of Fortune

by Jeffrey Billman October 3, 2023October 4, 2023

Dwayne Davis had an unusual opportunity to buy his way out of a long prison sentence. Then the deal blew up.

Posted inBusiness

Do The Right Thing

by Carli Brosseau October 2, 2023June 21, 2025

The State Employees’ Credit Union is embroiled in a fight over who will decide the identity and future of the country’s second-largest credit union. 

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