Month: July 2024

Moore County’s Conservative Civil War

David Hensley points out an amendment he’d like to make to a document at a Moore County Board of Education meeting. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

After MAGA Republicans took control of the school board, it imploded. Can a movement based on grievance govern?

The Faces of Wilmington’s Unhoused

(From left) Chelsea Alicia Sterling, Victor Quillen, Theresa Shively, Leroy Lyons, and Cindy. (Photo by Madeline Gray)

WHQR follows the lives of homeless individuals in Wilmington as they work together to stay safe.

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In Greensboro, a judge denies a request for the audio recording of her seizing a reporter’s notes.

Confessions of a Journalist

Stacey Stanton, 28, was found dead in her second-floor apartment on Sir Walter Raleigh Street in downtown Manteo in February 1990. (Photo by J. Foster Scott)

A reporter thought he could trust the police narrative in a murder case. Now he wrestles with the aftermath.

Good News for the Sober Curious

Burial Beer’s Chaosmachine, a nonalcoholic Hazy IPA. (Photo by Morial House)

With more people exploring a less alcohol-centered nightlife, North Carolina’s brewery scene is trying something new.

Your Roy Cooper Starter Pack

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)

Never heard of Roy Cooper before this week? Here’s our best past reporting on North Carolina’s governor.

Downtown Development and A Center for the Unhoused Collide

An unhoused woman sleeps outside the Interactive Resource Center on E. Washington Street. The center, overwhelmed by demand, is at the center of a community controversy that features tension over downtown development and how best to help the city's homeless population. (Joe Killian for The Assembly)

Greensboro’s Interactive Resource Center has served people experiencing homelessness for 15 years. But increased demand and an expanding urban core have put the organization at the center of a fight.