Month: October 2023

Challengers Sweep SECU Election

The main office of State Employees’ Credit Union in downtown Raleigh. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

People across the country have been watching the rare contested board election at the country’s second-largest credit union.

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Time and Tide Times Two

The Salvo Community Cemetery, which has been ravaged by years of erosion, in June 2017. (Photo by Justin Cook)

Two books take on the changing state of the Outer Banks. 

Public-Private Pitfall

More than 4 acres of vacant land in downtown Wilmington, where the city’s dream of developing the Gateway Project, hit a major setback. (Johanna F. Still for The Assembly)

A failed attempt to include affordable housing in a downtown mixed-use development highlights the complications of big ideas in cooler economic times.

The Ambiguous Artisan

September 9th - Milton, NC: A plaque dedicated to Thomas Day stands outside of his old home and tavern in Milton, North Carolina. (Cornell Watson for The Assembly)

Thomas Day was a free man of color who owned slaves. He also might have been an abolitionist.

Do The Right Thing

The office of the State Employees’ Credit Union in downtown Raleigh. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

The State Employees’ Credit Union is embroiled in a fight over who will decide the identity and future of the country’s second-largest credit union.