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North Carolina Moves To Limit Out-of-State Access To Vaccine

Posted by Associated Press | Feb 17, 2021 | COVID-19, Health, State Government

North Carolina is shifting its vaccine distribution guidance to dissuade people from traveling...

South Carolina Considers Breaking up Public Health Agency

Posted by Associated Press | Feb 15, 2021 | World

South Carolina’s public health workers have been tasked with keeping the state safe for 143 years, ever since lawmakers created a health board in 1878 after a yellow fever outbreak killed 20,000 Americans. Now, as the...

South Carolina Sued Over its Ban on LBGTQ Sex Ed Discussions

Posted by Associated Press | Feb 27, 2020 | World

It is against state law in South Carolina for public school sex education classes to mention anything other than heterosexual relationships, unless the talk involves sexually transmitted diseases. A federal lawsuit now aims to...

Sanders Faces Brunt of the Attacks at South Carolina Debate

Posted by Associated Press | Feb 26, 2020 | World

Democrats unleashed a roaring assault against Bernie Sanders and seized on Mike Bloomberg’s past with women in the workplace during a contentious debate that tested the strength of the two men at the center of the party’s...

NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet to Feature Activist Bree Newsome

Posted by Brighton McConnell | Sep 21, 2019 | Nonprofit

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of the NAACP is hosting its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday, featuring activist and filmmaker Bree Newsome as this year’s keynote speaker. Newsome went to school to become a filmmaker....

4th Time in 4 years: It’s Hurricane Evacuation Time in US

Posted by Associated Press | Sep 3, 2019 | World

It’s become a hurricane-season ritual in the Southeast: When a storm threatens, coastal residents board up homes, load up SUVs and fill highways where the traffic lanes are reversed to offer a speedy escape inland. For...