Author: Jordan Meadows

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Holiday shoppers across Wake County had no shortage of festive options over the weekend as two major vendor markets brought together local businesses and unique gifts for the holidays. The weekend kicked off Friday in Cary with the Cary Vintage Holiday Market, which marked the final vintage market of theirs for the year. Hosted by Vicious Fishes Brewery, South Line Brewing Company, and Hummingbird Collective

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In the years following the Civil War, when the promise of freedom demanded real institutions to sustain it, the Thompson Institute emerged in Lumberton, North Carolina, as one of the most important educational lights for African Americans in the state. Born from former slaves, the origins of the Thompson Institute trace back to the founding of the Lumber River Missionary Baptist Association in 1877 in

NC NEWSLINE - The North Carolina State Board of Education on Wednesday focused on increasing pay for teachers and other school staff as it discussed its legislative priorities for the upcoming 2026 short session. Geoff Coltrane, senior director of government affairs at the Department of Public Instruction, warned that he expects "very limited revenue" in the year ahead and that legislators in Raleigh may not even pass a full budget

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the U.S. economy, lawmakers, state attorneys general, and the White House are accelerating efforts to advance competing visions for national oversight. With Congress unable to pass comprehensive AI legislation, the policy vacuum has driven state leaders and federal officials to craft their own approaches-culminating this week in two major developments: a bipartisan state-led AI Task Force and President Donald Trump's

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The Senate is barreling toward a major health-care showdown as enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, threatening steep premium hikes for more than 20 million Americans. Without congressional action, subsidies will revert to their original 2010 levels, driving up out-of-pocket costs and likely pushing many people out of the insurance marketplace. Yet Republicans remain sharply

  By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Edward Austin Johnson, born enslaved in Raleigh on November 23, 1860, became a leading educator, attorney, author, and political figure whose work shaped public life in Wake County.  Johnson was educated first by Nancy Walton, a free African American woman who also instructed white children from prominent families, and later at a school run by two white New Englanders. After graduating from Washington School

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Apple's long-anticipated Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus has entered another extended holding pattern as North Carolina formally approved the company's request to push back the hiring and investment milestones tied to its incentive package. The NC Economic Investment Committee voted to grant Apple a four-year extension on the timelines originally established in 2021, effectively restarting an agreement that could ultimately deliver up to $845 million

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The Raleigh Police Department has announced that Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., retired Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS), will join the agency as Deputy Chief of the Administrative Services Division beginning January 5, 2026.  Buffaloe brings more than three decades of law enforcement, public safety, and administrative experience to Raleigh. As state public safety secretary, he oversaw more than 21,000 sworn

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The Enloe Charity Ball is one of the Triangle's most impactful student-run philanthropic traditions. Founded in 2004 by Rachel Escobar and paused only once, during the COVID year of 2020, the organization has become a defining feature of Enloe High School's culture. Each year, the event is planned, executed, and led entirely by students in Enloe's Student Council, who select a local nonprofit beneficiary, run

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer The Central Children's Home of North Carolina-originally founded as the Grant Colored Asylum-stands as one of the most significant African American child-care institutions in the state. Its origins trace back to the Reconstruction era, when the emancipation of enslaved people and the decline of the apprenticeship system created a sudden rise in homeless and neglected Black children who lacked safe and reliable care. In 1873,