Stories tagged: "education"

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community NC Bookstores Share Their Reading Picks for Hispanic Heritage Month

Looking for your next favorite book and want to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month? Here’s a list of 14 books. 

Leah Sherrell Leah Sherrell September 26, 2023 10:35 am EDT
Health Cardinal & Pine Political Reporter Michael McElroy explains how negotiations over casinos could jeopardize Medicaid expansion.
Health How Casinos Could Derail Medicaid Expansion in NC

About 600,000 North Carolinians have been waiting for Medicaid expansion for more than a decade. Backdoor wrangling over casinos could jeopardize it. 

Staff Reports Staff Reports September 20, 2023 1:30 pm EDT
Agriculture A new report outlines rural policy recommendations focused on four major tenets: protecting people’s freedom to live and work safely; investing in infrastructure; reining in corporate greed and protecting workers, small businesses, and family farmers; and creating opportunities for a better future. (Photo via Shutterstock)
Agriculture Here’s What Rural Leaders Say Their Communities Need

A new report outlines rural policy recommendations focused on four major tenets: protecting people’s freedom to live and work safely; investing in infrastructure; reining in corporate greed and protecting workers, small businesses, and family farmers; and creating opportunities for a better future.

Isabel Soisson Isabel Soisson September 13, 2023 5:14 pm EDT
community North Carolina wide receiver Kobe Paysour (8) runs in for a touchdown as South Carolina defensive back Keenan Nelson Jr. (18) looks on during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)
community Good News Friday: NC Teams Put A Whoopin’ on SC Teams This Week

NC schools brought the pain to their SC rivals. Plus: A Balsam, NC woman turns 100, and her flowers—planted by her late husband—turn 48.

Leah Sherrell Leah Sherrell September 8, 2023 11:04 am EDT
community 5 Ordinary North Carolinians Making an Extraordinary Difference
community 5 Ordinary North Carolinians Making an Extraordinary Difference

These folks didn’t let age, money, time, or any other factors stop them from helping their NC communities.

Vanessa Infanzon Vanessa Infanzon September 7, 2023 3:50 pm EDT

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NC college students met with President Biden this week to call for gun reforms. (Image via Sen. Natalie Murdock's Twitter) community Good News Friday: NC Students Talk Gun Reform with President Biden
In the latest episode of "Leah Tries," C&P's Leah Sherrell visits a Chilean-inspired food truck in the Triad. (Image via screenshot) Video ‘I Demolished It’: Taste-Testing A Chilean Food Truck in the Triad
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has called abortion “murder,” compared the procedure to slavery, and said that he would support a total abortion ban in North Carolina, without any exceptions. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) Abortion Here’s a Look at Mark Robinson’s Long Anti-Abortion Record
Irvin Casarrubias prepares to perform as part of the Danza Guerreros de Quetzalcoatl de Durham at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina on September 24, 2023. The intergenerational group celebrates traditional Aztec dance and helps to preserve Mexican culture as its members put down roots in the communities they now call home. Casarubbias, now 18, has been dancing since we was five-years-old. community PHOTOS: Traditional Aztec Dancers Put On a Show in Wilmington
Charlotte 4 North Carolinians Making a Difference for Kids in the Tar Heel State
Charlotte 4 North Carolinians Making a Difference for Kids in the Tar Heel State

They say that children are our future. The North Carolinians in this story made a choice to help the future look a little brighter.

Vanessa Infanzon Vanessa Infanzon September 7, 2023 3:30 pm EDT
community Flowers lay under a boarded up window at Caudill Labs on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, after a graduate student fatally shot his faculty adviser. A bullet hole could be seen earlier Tuesday in the bottom left corner of that window. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)
community Why the Shooting at UNC-Chapel Hill Is Different for Asian Americans

When people of color are accused of committing high-profile crimes, their community tends to bear the blame for it too. It’s the same way in the UNC shooting.

Leah Sherrell Leah Sherrell September 6, 2023 1:23 pm EDT