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Farming has many joys, but steady cash flow is not one of them. Slow Money NC's innovative lending system has helped arrange 80 loans to nearly 40 borrowers in North Carolina, including many names you'll recognize.
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News Briefs
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The Obama administration has taken a step in making hospital costs publicly available by creating a database of previously undisclosed charges and Medicare payments.
- by Elizabeth Van Brocklin
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North Carolina
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Roughly 600 people gathered outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh on Monday. The Moral Monday protests have now led to 153 arrests over four weeks.
- by Will Huntsberry
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Tags: North Carolina, Moral Monday
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North Carolina
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Sewage sludge, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment process, is used as agricultural fertilizer across North Carolina. Activists say exposure causes headaches, nausea, respiratory problems, lesions and more.
- by Billy Ball
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North Carolina
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The Senate's proposed budget cuts would close the 24-bed Wright School, cut funding for tobacco prevention programs, close three alcohol and drug abuse inpatient treatment centers, and defund the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. Plus, Senate Bill 76 would fuel our sprint toward fracking.
- by Lisa Sorg
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Tags: North Carolina, This week in disappointment, Wright School
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Music Feature
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The Old Ceremony will play the second anniversary of Haw River Ballroom, reconnecting two great ideas—a ballroom in the country and a rock band with a dozen members—that have become unpredictable successes.
- by Grayson Haver Currin
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Tags: Music Feature, The Old Ceremony, Haw River Ballroom
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Music Feature
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The dudes of New Orleans doom rock quintet Down have lived the hardscrabble lifestyle long enough to warrant the "super-" tag, and their past is essential to the success of their music.
- by Kim Kelly
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Tags: Music Feature, Lincoln Theatre
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Music Feature
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Over 20 years, Chuck Johnson has developed three discrete aspects of musical performance: experimental rock guitarist, analog electronics wizard, fingerstyle acoustic guitarist. His elemental through-line: emotion.
- by Brian Howe
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Tags: Music Feature, The Pinhook
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Food Feature
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Farming has many joys, but steady cash flow is not one of them. Slow Money NC's innovative lending system has helped arrange 80 loans to nearly 40 borrowers in North Carolina, including many names you'll recognize.
- by David Fellerath
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Tags: Food Feature, Cover Story
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Food Feature
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The gastro-cinematic canon, ranked by culinary interest and artistic merit, and five films to make a foodie shudder, in order of deplorability
- by David A. Ross
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Film Beat
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Ramin Bahrani, a Winston-Salem native, has charted an unlikely path to making a film with Zac Efron in the cornfields of Iowa.
- by David Fellerath
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Tags: Film Beat, Ramin Bahrani
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Film Review
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Director Ramin Bahrani's stark farmland drama chronicles one family's moral decay among the amber waves of grain.
- by Glenn McDonald
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Tags: Film Review, Ramin Bahrani
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Freedom's Daughter
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Motherhood is the leading cause of poverty for single women. The problem is that we've come to accept this as the status quo when someone chooses to mother outside our cultural norm of marriage.
- by Crystal Hayes
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Citizen
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North Carolina has dropped to 48th among the 50 states plus the District of Columbia in terms of our per-student support for K–12 public schools.
- by Bob Geary
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Tags: Citizen, Moral Monday
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Front Porch
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My father is 83 now, and his health is declining. In mid-April, my brother called: "You need to get up here now."
- by JP Trostle
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Letters to the Editor
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"Thank you many times over for posting the week's N.C. legislative bills passed. Also for the statistics page. Both are very helpful in keeping abreast of the insanity of the radical Republicans in our state government."