Around this time each year, North Carolina welcomes tens of thousands of avian visitors, from tiny songbirds like sparrows to bigger birds like Canadian geese. But many won’t survive the migration due to habitat encroachment – including tall buildings with lights and windows that pose obstacles to their flights.
Ava Mayo went on a bird-watching trip with the New Hope Bird Alliance to explore these challenges and the local initiatives addressing them.
National, state, and local election results will pour in next week, or if 2020 was any indication, trickle in. These next few days will bring last-minute stops by candidates, final attempts to swing the narrative, and high anxiety among some voters. Our reporters spent the past week covering the election from various angles.
First, the rallies held by Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in North Carolina Wednesday. Reyna Drake traveled to Raleigh for Harris’ event, while Ava Mayo made her way to Rocky Mount for Trump. First, here’s Reyna.
At this point in UNC’s semester, work is ramping up and in addition to the regular stress of exams and assignments, Election Day is making a lot of students even more anxious. Polls show the election is neck-and-neck with young voters being a key target for both presidential campaigns.
Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris’s spouse, Doug Emhoff and her sister, Maya Harris, spoke at Carrboro’s Cat’s Cradle. It was a Get Out the Vote Event hosted by UNC Young Democrats.
From the event, Ava Mayo reports.
A lot of UNC students now carry digital student IDs, rather than physical cards – and last week they got word those digital cards cannot be used as voter IDs.
That’s because of a ruling by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. The state Board of Elections had initially approved the digital IDs, but the North Carolina Republican party filed a lawsuit.
Here’s Ava Mayo with the story.
When you go to vote, do you have a right to take a selfie with your ballot? That’s the question at the center of a lawsuit against the North Carolina Board of Elections. Susan Hogarth – a Libertarian party candidate for the state senate – filed a lawsuit after the Board said she violated the law for posting a photo of her ballot on social media.
This week, prosecutors said they would not charge Hogarth with a crime. But the question remains whether the selfie ban will be upheld in court.
Here’s Ava Mayo with the story.