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29085
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This is the third of a three-part investigation into North Carolina’s hog-farming industry. The article discusses ways to make the multi-billion-dollar hog industry more sustainable, both for the environment and the state’s rural population, and the political and financial reasons those steps have not been taken.
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The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has not yet completed its road map for the next fifteen years of development, but should their master plan, known as Vision 2040, come to fruition, environmentalists fear its potential outcomes. Residents in opposition to the plan are petitioning to save forested lands, which might be threatened by a proposed runway near Umstead State Park.
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27269
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There are only about forty red wolves left in the eastern North Carolina wilderness. In the coming weeks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rules on the future of the Red Wolf Recovery Program.
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27273
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Life Lines is an audio journal for death row inmates created by Duke University Divinity School graduates Chris Agoranos and Lars Akerson. The idea is to give inmates an opportunity to restore a sense of humanity and give those outside the prison a chance to look within, and perhaps, contribute to the national debate over the death penalty.
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Vicki Ismail, a Raleigh restauranteur hopes to empower the disadvantaged with Carroll’s Kitchen. The new nonprofit will provide jobs and skills to women in need, and the people behind it hope to spark a movement.
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27472
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A Franklin Graham rally organized outside the Capitol in Raleigh to encourage religious conservatives’ support for Republican Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. While Franklin’s father, the evangelical leader Billy Graham, previously served as a spiritual counsel to Hillary Clinton, followers of Franklin Graham deeply oppose Hillary’s presidential candidacy.
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28793
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This issue recaps the major North Carolina events in 2016, including the presidential election, state politics, Hurricane Matthew, and issues regarding civil rights, transgender laws, and voting. Resolutions are included for living under a new presidential administration.
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28829
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In North Carolina, a de facto moratorium has been in place for more than ten years, but people are still being sentenced to death. In the political debate over the death penalty, the cost of capital punishment is a financial burden on the state.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 43, Nov 2016,
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28834
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Hurricane Matthew flooded a Duke Energy power plant in Goldsboro, unleashing toxic coal ash into the Neuse River. The level of arsenic in the groundwater monitoring well on this site is the highest of any of their coal ash sites around the state. Duke officials are being pressured to excavate the ash.
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