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“While we are all disappointed, the reactions I have seen from folks in the community, including performers, have been understanding and supportive of the decision,” council member Damon Seils said. “We are very excited about next year’s big anniversary festival.”
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“The legislature should be focused on supporting teachers, helping students recover lost learning, and investing in our public schools,” Gov. Cooper said in a Sept. 10 press release. “Instead, this bill pushes calculated, conspiracy-laden politics into public education."
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"Today, the Big Three accounts for less than 10 percent of the state’s aggregate economic production. In place of the Big Three is the new 'Big Five' sectors of technology, pharmaceuticals, banking, food processing and vehicle parts."
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Marvel’s latest film, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," is the first of its kind in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both led and ensembled by actors of Asian descent.
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Over the course of the month, concerts will continue to be held on each consecutive Thursday in a parking lot at University Place with featured musical acts from Tracks Music Library.
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It was the second school shooting in North Carolina that week, but the first that was fatal. And on Friday — less than a day before the rally — a 2-year-old was also shot and killed in a home in Winston-Salem.
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“For my son to have access to the sport in the same environment where people look like his mom and him is very important," Anthony said. "I really wanted him to learn those important life skills in Black spaces. He can take those life skills and share them with his community."
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously last week to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees by Oct. 31. Since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 23, the board agreed there was no longer a reason to wait to mandate the vaccine.
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Senate Bill 300 covers a slew of provisions that aim to standardize law enforcement processes, increase officer accountability and establish a new line of trust between the public and police.
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"The Campus & Community Coalition is committed to reducing the harms of excessive drinking in and around the University," Elinor Landess, director of the Coalition, writes.
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With the appointment of Anna Richards to the Orange County Board of County Commissioners, six of the seven commissioners are now women, and three are women of color.
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You may have seen him dancing away on Franklin Street, sporting a white shirt, white pants, headphones and a rainbow belt. But he wasn’t always the dancing man on the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets.
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Before the bill's signing, children ages 14 or 15 could marry adults through a "pregnancy exception." This left a loophole that could be used to avoid North Carolina's statutory rape laws.
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Direct effects of having a felony include prison, fines and loss of access to some services. Beyond this, employers, apartments and schools running background checks can make it difficult for those convicted of a felony to find employment or housing.
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