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Winston-Salem’s new environmental justice report highlights past, present and path forward
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Landlords are using AI to raise rents — and cities are starting to push back
This story was first published by The Markup and Stacker. If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not alone: Many landlords now use a single ...
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Mindfulness is about ‘remembering’ − a practice of coming back to the now
This article was first published by Jeremy David Engels, Penn State for The Conversation. To many, New Year’s Day represents the possibility for beginning anew. Businesses and corporations have taken ...
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North Carolina’s new governor is sworn into office
The new year started with a changing of the guard in North Carolina’s executive branch. Governor-elect Josh Stein was formally sworn in as North Carolina’s 76th Governor at the North Carolina State ...
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Governor Cooper commutes 15 death sentences following years of advocacy
Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without possibility of parole on New Year’s Eve following five years of vigils outside the governor’s mansion and a two-year ...
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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: In times of uncertainty, a call to the body
It’s no secret that Triad City Beat is going through big changes right now. With that, there’s been a lot of uncertainty about the future of the paper and the future of my role in it. And as a Type A ...
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As ‘smart cities’ tools grow nationwide, so do privacy and ethical concerns
After nearly a week of searching for a suspect in the hit-and-run death of an 81-year-old St. Helena, California woman this summer, police found and arrested a man with the help of license plate ...
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Places with the most expensive homes in Forsyth County
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EDITORIAL: We are all colonists now
Remember Colonial times? That period when global superpowers began planting flags around the world, extracting resources from and subjugating the people in those faraway lands? Colonization is why ...
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EDITORIAL: Say their names — the North Carolina insurrectionists
Call it what you will: Trump’s Insurrection, the Jan. 6 Rebellion, a Confederacy of Dunces…. Either way, it’s important to remember — better yet, never forget — those North Carolinians who aided and ...
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10 best albums of 2014
A lot of great music came out of North Carolina in 2014. Here are 10 albums that pleasured my eardrums. At least five years in the making, Jeffrey Dean Foster’s The Arrow is almost too good to be true ...
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On the grind, a pause for reflection
It’s taken 11 months to get to this point, but we made it to the end of our first calendar year at Triad City Beat. It would be difficult, using mere words, to describe the feeling around here. Deeply ...