A hospital closure in an area with a small population may not seem important but the ripple effect is vast and may end up impacting you. The root cause of most rural hospital closures is straightforward: rural hospitals cannot negotiate as effectively as larger urban systems with private insurers.
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Hailey Brighton and Don Miller of Taxicab Preacher stopped by Live & Local, discussing their debut EP and playing live recordings from shows.
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Most of the time, Mark Katz teaches in pretty conventional spaces on the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. But some of his classroom work happens elsewhere, in a place where he has to go through a metal detector and surrender his phone before entering. Orange Correctional Center, a minimum-security state prison in Hillsborough.
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This Just In — The State of our Union is much stronger than it feels right now and not in the ways that our current president would like.
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I’m fine. Pretty good, I guess. Well, there’s a lot going on. I’m busy, yes, but the country … My God, every time the President opens his mouth, another lie!
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There was a time, decades ago, when North Carolina regularly placed two players on the five-man, first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference squad.
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Check out the events happening around our community this weekend. You can view the full...
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In this week’s show, amongst the ideas I shared, I talked about the research into Privilege. Three research projects all point to the same conclusion: once we are in a privileged position, even if we didn’t ‘earn’ it, we quickly become blind to that privilege
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This week, Aaron welcomes Joshua Trent Brown, a local author whose debut novel is “The Walls Are Closing In On Us.”
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Did you know SORS is completely staffed by volunteers? It’s true! In this issue, we highlight some of our EMS Division members and learn what motivates them to take volunteer shifts on top of their work and school obligations.
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