The Last County In North Carolina Without a Confirmed COVID-19 Case by Paul Blest May 12, 2020 Avery County has ramped up coronavirus testing in the last week, but still hasn’t found its first confirmed coronavirus case....
Close or Open? How Private Schools Reacted To Gov. Cooper’s Public School Shutdown Order by Paul Blest May 4, 2020 State officials shuttered public schools for the rest of the academic year. But what about private schools? North Carolina is one of 44 states (along with Washi...
‘The Driving Force Is Institutionalized Racism’: Black North Carolinians Are Getting Hit Hard By COVID-19 by Paul Blest April 10, 2020 African-Americans make up less than a quarter of the state’s population, but nearly 40 percent of its confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths....