LOCAL PEOPLE
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One man’s mission to paint 50,000 honeybees in NC and beyond
How a chance encounter with a bee inspired an artist to paint 50,000 honeybees across the world. Today, 11 NC cities feature his murals.
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The 5 NC billionaires who call Research Triangle Park home
Five notable billionaires reside in NC’s Research Triangle Park, an area that includes Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh. Do you know them and what they do?
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VIDEO: A Teacher Reacts to Mark Robinson’s Idea Remove Science From Grades K-5
In his 2022 memoir, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wrote that if he was in charge of education policy in North Carolina, students wouldn’t learn science or social studies until after the fifth grade. Teachers in these grades would focus only on reading, writing, and math, he wrote, to improve the state’s low testing scores in…
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VIDEO: Leo Williams: Here’s A Big Success Story From Eastern NC
WATCH: We don’t always hear success stories out of eastern NC, but here’s a big one. We went inside Durham Mayor Leo Williams’ rise, from Halifax County “country-boy” to leader of one of NC’s fastest-growing cities. For the full story, here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardinal & Pine…
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A new child tax credit could pass this month. Here’s what it would do for low-income families.
During the pandemic, Democrats changed the child tax credit and cut childhood poverty in half. Now there’s new hope for making those changes permanent, but there are skeptics.
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VIDEO: NC Farmers Can’t Repair Their Own Equipment. Here’s How That Hurts Them.
Imagine purchasing equipment that’s critical to the success of your business that costs you tens, if not over a hundred thousand dollars, but you’re not allowed to make repairs on the equipment yourself. That is the reality that farmers in North Carolina and across the country fact: they are required to take that equipment to…
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Leo Williams: How a ‘country boy’ from eastern NC came to lead one of NC’s fastest-growing cities
Leo Williams is an up-and-coming political leader with a deep background in education. We talked to him about being the mayor of his adopted city, and the pressures of leading in tumultuous times.
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Cardinal & Pine’s Billy Ball talks rural issues, education on “Do Politics Better”
A far-reaching conversation on the struggles of rural North Carolina, education, and confronting the holidays after a profound loss.
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The most Googled celebrities from North Carolina in 2023
When it comes to celebrities in North Carolina, the sports figure reigns supreme. A look through Bet Carolina’s recent analysis and ranking of the state’s most popular celebrities based on Google data shows that four of the top 10 most Googled North Carolinians are basketball players.
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Meet the NC nonprofit connecting veterans and rescue dogs
NC has one of the largest veteran populations in the nation. And veterans often suffer from mental health and physical health issues. The head of Vets to Vets United is helping with rescue dogs.
