Proud that The Assembly was recognized by the NC Press Association for excellence in higher education reporting. Congratulations Pam Kelley, @melaniesill, Ben Schachtman, Kyle Villemain & Kate Medley!! (Our stories involving High Point University, UNC-Wilmington & Duke are below)

The Labor Day music programming on WNCW (Spindale, North Carolina) is off-the-charts wonderful today. Here's a sample, from the Steep Canyon Rangers Rangers. youtube.com/watch?v=X5qNG2…

The northern bald ibis, hunted almost to extinction, was revived over the last 2 decades. The birds don’t know how to migrate without the guidance of wild-born elders, so scientists and conservationists stepped in as flight instructors. Stefanie Dazio AP News apnews.com/article/german…

Often left out of the conversation around the busing crisis, about 200 Asian students were transported out of Chinatown and the South End to schools across the city to attend segregated classrooms with seemingly little regard to the quality of education. wgbh.org/news/local/202…

In North Carolina, a liquified natural gas facility, four natural gas plants, several compressor stations and pipelines await approval from regulators. lisasorg asks: Can any of it be stopped? Photos: Julia Wall. #ncpol Inside Climate News The Assembly insideclimatenews.org/news/08092024/…

In North Carolina, writes Maya King, the presidential election might come down to Charlotte and its suburbs. The New York Times #ncpol nyti.ms/4ecnxY6

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One heckuva read from Barry Yeoman.

This was a good listen.

My latest newsletter, with links to stories by Erika Hayasaki, Robert Samuels, Janine Latus, bruce selcraig, Caity Weaver, Lydia Polgreen, Stefanie Dazio, and, um, myself. Plus a great podcast and irresistible music videos by Ivan & Alyosha and JAX. Via beehiiv 🐝. barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com/p/jolene

A profile of Louisiana's Windell Curole, a retired levee district manager who defied the feds and kept his fragile jurisdiction from flooding during Hurricane Ida. By Katie Thornton; photographs by Thalía Juárez. Guardian US H/T Longreads theguardian.com/environment/ar…

.Kavitha Surana reports on Amber Thurman, a healthy 28-year-old mother who died after she couldn’t access legal abortion care in Georgia. A state review committee found that her death was preventable and said a delay in care had a large impact. ProPublica propublica.org/article/georgi…

"It was no accident that Vice President Kamala Harris’s first two rallies after her smashing debate victory were in North Carolina," writes Jen "We aren't going back " Rubin 🥥🌴. wapo.st/3XzVHyq

From a 1991 story in the News & Record: "Ryan Routh ... lives in Greensboro’s Fisher Park area with a family he hopes to keep safe. But what he did — fight and chase a suspected rapist and later assist police in an investigation — makes him a super citizen if not a super hero."

Reposting in light of the reporting that Yale, Duke, and other unis are now being threatened by the group that sued UNC and Harvard nytimes.com/2024/09/17/us/…

Trump thinks smoking is “terrible.” So why is Reynolds American the biggest corporate donor to the primary pro-Trump super PAC? A deep dive with Dan Diamond Josh Dawsey washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Is there a full list of NC Press Association awards from last night?