Column: Stuck in the middle
By Ben Rappaport | Apr. 6, 2021"Chapel Hill demands housing choice. Legislation like Senate Bill 349 is how we get it."
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"Chapel Hill demands housing choice. Legislation like Senate Bill 349 is how we get it."
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The mirrored bills would expand the definition of a hate crime and increase the scope and scale of punishments for hate crimes. The introduced Hate Crimes Prevention Acts would also require law enforcement training on how to identify and respond to a hate crime. Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said that this act would have impacted his department’s investigation of the 2015 murders of three Muslim students, Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.
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The coalition and call for change came in response to several years of a constant decline in state school funding, ranking N.C. as one of the lowest in the country in terms of school funding and equity.
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All adults in North Carolina will be eligible to be vaccinated soon following a new timeline announced by Gov. Roy Cooper on March 25. The new timeline allows the second part of Group 4, other essential workers and people in group living settings to become eligible for the vaccine March 31, one week earlier than anticipated.
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Spring has sprung, and these local farms have found ways to provide outdoor, COVID-19-safe fun for their communities.
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Although rural counties have a lower population density than urban ones, they still faced periods of critical community spread. From September through November, nearly twice as many new cases were reported in rural counties than urban and suburban ones, according to the NCDHHS.
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COVID-19 restrictions in North Carolina will once again be eased starting Friday, March 26 at 5 p.m., Gov. Roy Cooper announced at a Tuesday news briefing.
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The following list explores vaccination options in the Triangle areas, with notes on what vaccines are being offered, how appointments are made, how vaccines are administered and what locations and transportation services are available.
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We can no longer ignore the unique and distinct racism faced by Asian Americans. Progress involves recognizing implicit biases, educating ourselves and, most importantly, pressuring our legislators to enact meaningful change.
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“These are my people and my country that are dying,” Gan Poo, a Burmese-American who participated in the March 6 Chapel Hill protest, said. “My family is back there, and we want to help save them.”
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Since vaccinations have become available, Orange County BOCC Chairperson Renne Price said the county has been doing everything in its power to continue supporting racial equity. But some community members don't think vaccinations in Orange County are as equitable as they could be.
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"Shaw Rising" tells the story of Shaw University’s history, the first historically Black university in the South. The film premiered on UNC-TV on February 26, 2020, and won a regional Midsouth Emmy in the Documentary/Historical category on February 26, 2021.
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The National Weather Service is warning of severe storms across central North Carolina on Thursday afternoon. Here's what you need to know.
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The Daily Tar Heel sat down with UNC epidemiology professor Jim Thomas to reflect on the past year of ethical dilemmas under COVID-19 and how institutions and individuals can make better decisions as vaccines become more widely available.
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If both bills are passed, local government could publish legal notices online instead of requiring them to be printed in newspapers.
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Approximately 5,000 residential units in Orange County are not adequately serve with broadband, Jim Northrup, chief information officer for the county, said. Orange County Commissioner Earl McKee was concerned that these internet access issues were amplified due to COVID-19. So he petitioned to start the Orange County Broadband Task Force, which held its first meeting on March 3.
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As part of the campaign, NC CRED will create and maintain a website to provide information on confederate monuments in the state, work in coalitions to empower local communities to remove monuments through legislation and compile an accurate history of these monuments.
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Though violence against Asian Americans has risen particularly in major U.S. cities, community members say anti-Asian racism is not new — and that there is much work that needs to be done to address it.
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Since last March, the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has come through a mixture of executive orders and comprehensive relief legislation. Here’s a look back at how it all happened.
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Since North Carolina started its vaccine rollout in December 2020, nearly 1 million residents have received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. But while the promise of a return to a pre-pandemic life has offered respite for some, it has outlined a competitive and confusing pecking order for others.
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