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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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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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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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The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on September 20, 2016 by police officers in Charlotte prompted protesting in the city. Protesters marched and blocked Interstate 277 before being cleared from the road by police officers in riot gear using pepper spray. Community members were distressed at the police’s conclusion that the shooting and other incidents across the state and country involving violence toward individuals of color were justified. Community members are concerned with policing practices and believe that the steps being made to improve relations between police and the community are insufficient.
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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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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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Raleigh’s BJ Barham, founder and frontman of the band American Aquarium, talks about the ups and downs of the band, their fans, and perseverance.
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David McKnight is an influential musician and former journalist also known as the Franklin Street Fiddler, the Mayor of Ninth Street, or Hillsborough Street’s Handel. McKnight was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, giving him little time to live. This week musicians gathered in Durham to pay tribute to McKnight.
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Autopsy results appear to contradict the Durham Police Department’s account of Frank Clark’s death. Police claim that Clark was shot from behind while fleeing the police, but local residents are skeptical. They believe that the officers mistreat impoverished African Americans, particularly those, like Clark, with criminal records.
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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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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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The Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project remains questionable due to funding. Under the current light-rail proposal, the federal government would be responsible for half of the project’s funding. U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield is optimistic that the project will progress.
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Refugee Community Partnership (RCP), a grassroots advocacy organization in Carrboro, helps facilitate legal assistance for refugees. Andrea Eisen, RCP's cofounder, says the only way to provide these refugees all that they need is a grassroots movement to accomplish things like an increased minimum wage and investment in affordable housing.
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American Rivers, a national conservation organization, listed North Carolina’s Neuse River as the seventh most endangered river in the United States. They blamed hog and poultry industries for contaminating the waters. Advocates are urging legislators to restore a voluntary buyout program so that water resources can recover.
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Orange County Public Schools are being urged to ban the Confederate flag and other hate symbols on school property. In light of a recent mass shooting and racial hate crimes, the Board of Education will discuss the ban as well as potential changes to the dress code.