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Buncombe TDA awards $11.2M to tourism-related projects, including RAD Creative Campus (opens the original)
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The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority is awarding a total of $11.2 million in grants to 10 projects that are expected to bring more tourists to the county and benefit the local community. The TDA awarded the grants Wednesday through its Legacy Investment from Tourism fund, also known as the LIFT fund. The recipients were chosen from a total of 24 applicants through a competitive process. The largest grant, $2.4 million dollars, will go to the North Carolina Arboretum for the construc
Two years after Helene, a mill town works to find a way forward (opens the original)
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Even before Hurricane Helene, the town of Canton in Haywood County was trying to figure out how to reimagine its future. In 2023, the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill closed, leaving more than a thousand people without jobs and leaving the town without the industry that had sustained it for over a century. Now, Canton is working to find a way forward that honors its history while also navigating the new challenges brought on by the storm. Austin Medford and Jeff Denton grew up in Canton and were part
Interview: Prof. Chris Cooper on Trump's FEMA comments, voting by mail and other election news (opens the original)
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Election Day is a little over six weeks away. And from President Trump’s visit to North Carolina to the legal battle over voting by mail, there’s been a lot of national news affecting our region. Chris Cooper is professor of political science and director of the Haire Institute for Public Policy at Western Carolina University. He’s also the author of Anatomy of a Purple State, a book that examines North Carolina’s political landscape. BPR's Felicia Sonmez sat down in the studio with Cooper to ca
Trump ‘kids’ that he’ll only send more FEMA funding to WNC if Whatley wins Senate race (opens the original)
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President Trump told a crowd in Gastonia Wednesday evening that he will only send more Hurricane Helene relief aid to Western North Carolina if Republican nominee Michael Whatley wins this year’s U.S. Senate race — before quickly adding that he was “only kidding.” The president made the remarks at a campaign event for Whatley, who faces Democratic nominee Roy Cooper in one of this year’s most closely-watched Senate races. “We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding,” Trump told the crowd, ref
Rep. Chuck Edwards files complaint against House ethics panel over misconduct probe (opens the original)
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Rep. Chuck Edwards has filed a complaint against the leaders of the House Ethics Committee, alleging the panel failed to follow its own rules when it investigated allegations that he sexually harassed two young, female staff members. Edwards, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s 11th District, filed the complaint earlier this month but only publicly released it on Tuesday. “The Ethics Committee demanded that I be punished for supposedly violating the ‘letter and spirit’ of House rules wh
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