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Western North Carolina Community Calendar

4/25 -	Special Screening of State of Conflict by Bill Moyers and The Bus Stop Kick Off
5/02 -	Flapjack Give Back - MANNA FoodBank
5/06 -	World Affairs Council - WNC "NSA Spying & The Constitution"

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4/24 -

Winston-Salem charter school uses taxpayer dollars to recruit out-of-state players for elite basketball team

4/24 -

Food activists launch campaign to change food laws, releasing varieties of "open source" seeds for fair use

4/24 -

As states recover revenue from recession, state lawmakers debate how to allocate surplus funds

4/24 -

Supreme Court upholds Michigan constitutional amendment banning affirmative action in public universities

4/23 -

Sixty-three percent of public watched online news video content in 2013, survey research says

4/23 -

NC fracking commission reviews 48 rules in rushed day-long session, approving them all

4/23 -

Tuscaloosa, AL, students attend schools nearly as segregated as in 1960s

4/23 -

Christie's legal bills for bridge scandal exceed cash on hand for 2016 campaign

4/21 -

Asheville GreenWorks hosts Hard-2-Recycle event on April 26

4/21 -

Deadline approaching for filing compensation claims in cases of NC's sterilization programs

4/21 -

New resegregation patterns emerging across public schools in the South

4/21 -

Lawsuits assert the tribes of North Dakota cheated of land worth nearly $1 billion

4/20 -

Cleveland county animal shelter to cease using gas chamber for euthanization

4/20 -

Residents of Latta, S.C., attend town council meeting to express views on mayor's decision to fire town's lesbian police chie

4/20 -

Study reveals half of jailed NYC teens have traumatic brain injury before incarcerations

4/20 -

Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, feminist scholar and seminal contributor to Wikipedia, has died

4/20 -

Disagreement growing over control of quinoa, an increasingly popular 'superfood' in the U.S.

4/19 -

Scientists and food activists create Open Source Seed Initiative, pledge seeds will be available without restrictions

4/19 -

Studies suggest long term unemployment has become "a trap that is difficult to escape"

4/19 -

Bureau of Land Management criticized for selling herd of Wyoming horses to Canadian slaughterhouse

4/19 -

NC scientists say Dan River surface water safe for farming despite recent coal ash spill

4/18 -

Army begins integrating women into platoon artillery jobs, with Fort Bragg as a first site

4/18 -

Same-sex couple files joint NC tax return to protest of ban on gay marriage

4/18 -

Obamacare insurance premiums to rise less than expected

4/18 -

Housing is becoming less attainable for the middle class due to rising rents, home costs

4/16 -

Obama claims GOP attempts to restrict voting rights for elderly, women, minorities and impoverished to cast ballots in swing states

4/16 -

States crack down on for-profit colleges to protect students with loan debts

4/16 -

Homeless Jesus statue in Davidson, NC receives both praise and scrutiny

4/15 -

Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources finds possible link between seismic activity and fracking

4/15 -

New CBO budget predictions for Obamacare for the 2015–2024 period: $104 billion less than the previous projections; it's working

4/15 -

NRDC: With only 100 or so panthers still alive in Florida, EPA still considering oil-wastewater disposal well near prime habitat

4/15 -

New NC tax code results in higher taxes for middle class, less revenues available for public works, more money for wealthy

4/14 -

Latest voter suppression trick: Miami-Dade blocks voters standing in line from using bathroom

4/14 -

WaPo: "Republicans kiss votes from women goodbye"

4/14 -

Polling data says McCrory's approval ratings still "under water"

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