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By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Last Wednesday, North Carolina House lawmakers opened the new legislative year with a contentious first meeting of the House Select Committee on Government Efficiency, focusing heavily on DEI policies in Asheville, Buncombe County and the City of Raleigh. Much of the scrutiny centered on allegations that local governments and publicly funded programs have unlawfully prioritized race and gender in violation of federal and state civil

KFF NEWS - It's feeding time for the animals on this property outside Nashville, Tennessee. An albino raccoon named Cricket reaches through the wires of its cage to grab an animal cracker, an appetizer treat right before the evening meal. "Cricket is blind," said Robert Sory, who is trying to open a nonprofit animal sanctuary along with his wife, Emily. "A lot of our animals come to us with issues."

By Cash Michaels Contributing Writer A Raleigh television station has reported that two former chairmen of beleaguered St. Augustine's University (SAU) in Raleigh are no longer members of the trustees board of the small historically black Episcopalian institution, as a condition of a loan agreement to cover its outstanding debts. WRAL-TV reports that as of  January 7th,  both former St. Aug. Trustee Board chairmen James Perry and Brian Boulware were

PRE News & Ideas- More than three years after lawmakers gave the go-ahead to people sickened by decades of toxic drinking water aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville to sue the federal government for illnesses caused by the contamination, thousands are still waiting for their cases to move forward. Marvin Cox served in the United States Marine Corps from 1981 to 1985. His last duty station was Camp

[caption id="attachment_15694" align="alignnone" width="1185"] LIGON RENOVATION LISTENING SESSION HELD-Dr. Rober Taylor (right), Wake County Public Schools Superintendent, followed through on the first of listening sessions he promised regarding the Ligon Magnet Middle School Renovation on Thursday, Jan. 8th. Nearly 100 interested persons were in attendance at the session held in the Junior High School Auditorium. 20-presenters took the microphone, and voiced their opinions of the two hours session on three

DENVER (AP) - The U.S. Center for SafeSport announced Benita Fitzgerald Mosley as its new CEO on Tuesday, placing the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in charge of rebooting an agency that has been plagued with problems over most of its nearly nine-year history. Fitzgerald Mosley will start her job Feb. 1, saying in a statement provided to The Associated Press that it is "more than a job opportunity for me,

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Owen Lun West Smith was born into slavery on May 18, 1851, in Giddensville, Sampson County, North Carolina. At the age of at most 14 he initially followed the Confederate Army as a personal servant. As the war drew to a close, Smith's path changed dramatically when he left his mother and joined General William T. Sherman's Union forces on their return north. He was

Carolina Public Press - When Southeast Middle School social studies teacher Eric Shock's eighth-graders walked into class one day last semester, they noticed a piece of paper on the board. It was a bill being considered by the North Carolina General Assembly that would ban cellphones in schools. His students weren't happy. "Of course, all the kids are like, 'No, we need to have cellphones,'" Shock recalled. So, he gave them

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer There are more than 67 million people in the U.S. who speak a language other than English at home, and at least 38% report speaking English less than very well. With over 500 languages tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau, public agencies face growing pressure to serve diverse populations efficiently. Advances in bilingual and real-time translation technologies are rapidly reshaping how governments, schools, police departments,

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration's criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared on Monday to be emboldening defenders of the U.S. central bank against the efforts of President Donald Trump to control the Fed. The backlash reflected the bigger stakes of a contest about the fate of the Fed's independence, the balance of power within the federal government, and the path of the U.S. economy. Trump has