by WSIC News | Sep 9, 2022 | WSIC State News
Yesterday, the EPA announced the selection of UNC-Chapel Hill and East Carolina University as pollution prevention grant recipients. The grants were made possible by a historic bipartisan $100 million program investment. These grants will allow states and Tribes to...
by WSIC News | Sep 9, 2022 | WSIC State News
Beginning today, North Carolina’s county boards of elections will begin mailing absentee ballots to voters who request them for the 2022 general election. This signals the start of voting for this important midterm election. Election Day is 61 days away – November...
by WSIC News | Sep 9, 2022 | WSIC State News
An analysis by the N.C. Watchdog Reporting Network of hundreds of fuel sample records from school buses with MaxxForce engines across the state shows that oil sample tests found elevated levels of fuel in the oil more than one third of the time. Despite the known...
by WSIC News | Sep 9, 2022 | WSIC State News
The state’s seasonally adjusted August 2022 unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, increasing 0.1 of a percentage point from July’s revised rate. The national rate increased 0.2 of a percentage point to 3.7 percent. North Carolina’s unemployment rate decreased 1.3...
by WSIC News | Sep 8, 2022 | WSIC State News
The EEOC charged Delaware-based Bojangles’ with violating federal law when it subjected a female employee at a Greensboro location to a sexually hostile work environment. The lawsuit charges that the employee was denied a chance to enroll in a management training...
by WSIC News | Sep 8, 2022 | WSIC State News
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation announced today that $112,250 in youth literacy grants have been awarded to nonprofits, libraries and schools across North Carolina. The foundation stated that they money will be used to “narrow the gap” between financial...
