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WNCT.com’s Get in the Game: Rhiley Holley
Editor’s note: WNCT has a new feature that will happen every Tuesday where a player from one of the many travel ball teams across Eastern North Carolina will be featured. If you have an athlete you’d like to nominate, email jennis@wnct.com. APEX, N.C. (WNCT) — Shortstop and second baseman Rhiley Holley travels with the Team Freeman […]
High building costs, interest rates take a bite out of housing affordability
Skyrocketing building costs and higher interest rates have made $900 rents a thing of the past, says Sarah Odio, the associate director of housing for the Development Finance Initiative (DFI) within the UNC School of Government. In the past, Odio said, $900 rents covered money developers borrowed from lenders and equity investors to build affordable […]
Families spending 22% more on household goods than in 2021
(The Center Square) – Average household spending in North Carolina is $1,017 more per month today to buy the same goods and services as it was in 2021, a new federal report says. This means that families have a 22% increase in cumulative inflation since January 2021, putting North Carolina 1.5% higher than the national average. Over that same period, inflation has cost each household nearly $26,000 more than they would have spent. ...
ABSS adopts new policy barring discrimination based on gender identity that appears to conflict with N.C. Parents’ Bill of Rights
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 6-1 during their latest work session Tuesday afternoon to adopt a policy revision that ABSS officials say complies with expanded protections for LGBTQ students – and prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and other “sex stereotypes” – under newly-implemented revisions to the federal Title IX by the U.S. Department of Education.
Former NASCAR star Kurt Busch charged with DWI in North Carolina
IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Retired NASCAR driver Kurt Busch is facing several charges related to an alleged DWI, according to the Iredell Free News. Busch reportedly will have his driver’s license revoked for 30 days as a result. Iredell Free News reports that court records state that Busch was clocked going 18 mph over […]
Flounder fishery dispute grows as August meeting approaches
The flounder conflict continues into next week’s North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) meeting, which will be held in Raleigh from Aug. 21-23. The bone of contention is between the MFC and the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission (WRC) about this year's recreational flounder season. The only agenda items...
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