Shelane Etchison speaks at the Veterans Defending Democracy Rally in Greensboro. (Carolyn de Berry for The Assembly) Shelane Etchison broke gender barriers serving in Afghanistan and Syria, then went on to earn two graduate degrees from Harvard after retiring from the Army at the rank of major. Now she’s looking to break up the two-party […]
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Yeti or Not, Here They Come
When most people think about Bigfoot, they imagine an ape-like creature lurking in the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. But the Bigfoot-hunting and fan community in Appalachia, particularly in North Carolina, is also robust. Legends about Bigfoot have haunted the hollows of western North Carolina for hundreds of years. “People in this region are […]
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Meet the Volunteer Army Looking to Save N.C. Rivers
We’re resending today’s newsletter because the link to our top story was wrong in our initial blast! On a rainy April morning, Ashley Gibbon kicked rocks that line the bottom of the Swannanoa River while Art Mandler used a net to catch any aquatic invertebrates she’d dislodged. The two volunteers with the Stream Monitoring Information […]
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Meet the Volunteer Army Looking to Save N.C. Rivers
On a rainy April morning, Ashley Gibbon kicked rocks that line the bottom of the Swannanoa River while Art Mandler used a net to catch any aquatic invertebrates she’d dislodged. The two volunteers with the Stream Monitoring Information Exchange then carried the net to the bank, picked out the insects with large tweezers, and dropped […]
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A Blue-Collar Wave?
Most elected officials “can’t identify with our issues, because they didn’t live the lives we’ve lived.”
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Election Season Heats Up
We are taking a short publishing pause in early July to give the staff a chance to rest and reset. We’ll be back with more big-swing stories on July 15, and in the meantime, we’ll be re-sending some of our favorite stories so far this year that you may have missed. July is always when […]
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Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll
We are taking a short publishing pause in early July to give the staff a chance to rest and reset. We’ll be back with more big-swing stories on July 15, and in the meantime, we’ll be re-sending some of our favorite stories so far this year that you may have missed. Today we’re looking back […]
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Growing Pains
We are taking a short publishing pause in early July to give the staff a chance to rest and reset. We’ll be back with more big-swing stories on July 15, and in the meantime, we’ll be re-sending some of our favorite stories so far this year that you may have missed. North Carolina is a […]
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For Love of the Game
We are taking a short publishing pause in early July to give the staff a chance to rest and reset. We’ll be back with more big-swing stories on July 15, and in the meantime, we’ll be re-sending some of our favorite stories so far this year that you may have missed. Sports are a part […]
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Chew on This
We are taking a short publishing pause in early July to give the staff a chance to rest and reset. We’ll be back with more big-swing stories on July 15, and in the meantime, we’ll be re-sending some of our favorite stories so far this year that you may have missed. We love food stories […]
