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Parents rally to end mask mandate in Wake County schools

A rally on Tuesday called to end the mask mandate in Wake County schools. More than 100 parents, grandparents, and students held signs and demonstrated in the cold outside Wake public school headquarters in Cary during a school board meeting. Carolina Teachers Alliance, the American Teachers Alliance, Open-NC.US, and Wake County’s Moms for Liberty held...

Theresa Opeka
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Housing Nonprofit Cited for Misspending

CHARLOTTE — Project Homestead, a Greensboro nonprofit that has received millions of dollars in government grants to help low- and middle-income families buy homes, is being investigated by a variety of law enforcement agencies after allocations of financial improprieties were reported by the News & Record of Greensboro. A roundup of other local-government stories includes stories on regulating Wal-Mart, a “worthless" Cumberland program on tuberculosis, and Charlotte’s train troubles.

Michael Lowrey

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