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Joined December 2020
In December, Bill Arthur wrote a story for The Assembly about the fall of Southern Season, a beloved food emporium. Arthur appeared on WUNC to talk about this story.
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In recent weeks there has been confusion regarding FEMA's TSA program, which pays for lodging for people whose residences became uninhabitable due to a natural disaster. As of January 29, about 6,000 people were in TSA-funded housing in North Carolina.
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Senior Editor John Drescher appeared on WPTF to discuss his recent story on Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, two mothers who lost sons to AIDS and subsequently joined forces to campaign for acceptance. Listen to the segment below.
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Wake County Special Superior Court Judge William Pittman rejected Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to overturn his 734-vote loss to Justice Allison Riggs in last year’s state Supreme Court race on Friday.
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RT @themhartman: BREAKING: UNC System President Peter Hans limited the authority UNC-Chapel Hill trustees have over athletics. Hans said t…
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Border Belt Independent (@BeltBorder) is officially joining The Assembly’s network of newsrooms across the state. BBI covers Bladen, Columbus, Robeson, and Scotland counties in southeastern North Carolina.
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Hot Mess Express started in August 2021 when mother and influencer Jen Hamilton saw a post about a woman asking for help to maintain her home. Hamilton took to TikTok to float the idea of women organizing to clean each others’ homes for free.
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RT @GretzingerErin: BREAKING: In response to Trump's Jan. 21 DEI executive order, @UNC_System sent out a memo on Feb. 5 suspending all gene…
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RT @ewstephe: UNC System Lobbyist Urges Calm Amid Trump’s Directives “We’ve tried to just, you know, tell our folks just to stay calm at t…
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President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a flurry of directives that caused widespread confusion for universities. But UNC's top in-house lobbyist in Washington is urging patience and calm while the new administration gets to work.
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RT @j__still: As of the latest data available, North Carolina's six FAA-staffed air towers had just 178 certified air traffic controllers.…
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A commercial airplane collided with a military helicopter in Washington, D.C. last week, killing 67 people. The incident has highlighted safety concerns amid an air traffic controller shortage that’s been building for decades, including at airports in NC.
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Dozens of Duke University students signed up for a free trip to China. Even the university was surprised by what happened when they got there.
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Assembly reporter Michael Hewlett appeared on WUNC to talk clemency, and specifically the 15 death sentences Roy Cooper commuted before leaving office. Listen below:
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In a special meeting last Friday, the Greensboro City Council voted 8-1 to have Jamilla Pinder fill the unexpired term of the late Yvonne Johnson. Johnson's son Vernon Johnson had also been seeking the seat.
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Last Wednesday, Eastern North Carolina’s top federal prosecutor, Michael Easley Jr., announced his resignation as part of the Trump administration transition.
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A sanitation score appears straightforward to customers seeking validation of their dinnertime decisions. But it’s the product of multiple layers of food safety systems that connect the federal government, state regulators, and county health departments.
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Mark Robinson’s defamation case against CNN and former Greensboro porn shop clerk Louis Money appears to have ended with a whimper on Friday.
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