NC reporter @insideclimate Geeks out on haz waste, water & air pollution, energy, weather. Loves ants not the fiery kind Signal: 919-536-2341 Threads @lisarsorg
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This is incredible journalism by @indyweek Every Durhamites' blood should boil: corporate landlords getting major property tax breaks county tax office incompetence = big budget holes for the city
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Jordon Hudson would really like information about UNC's communications with reporters, including me
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Census bureau says 115k NC households don't have A/C of any type. Some are in the mountains (where it still gets hot) but Guilford, Forsyth & Mecklenburg are in Top 10.
Looking for NCians who are without this essential service, for a story
lisa.sorg@insideclimatenews.org
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First time I've ever used the term "mucilaginous goo" in a story; @NCDEQ is suing Brenntag over pollution in an East Durham creek, aka the "Creek That Reeks" or the "Creek That Smells Like Death"
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My dreams for a slow news day? Dashed by the Trump adm announcing it plans to award $28m to Duke Energy to upgrade its coal-fired power plant in Roxboro/Hyco Lake; a $44m match would come from ratepayers
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Holy cow
Must read this piece by @StormsReback
Trust me when I say this is one of the most twisty and wildest stories I've read in awhile:
Prosecutors Say a N.C. Woman Poisoned Her Daughter at Thanksgiving. Even Before That, Her Life Was Hardly Ordinary. theassemblync.com/news/polit…
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I spoke with @Yale researchers, @foodandwater, @animalag and others about a study that found people in three states living near large scale farms experience higher rates of cancer & what’s left to study insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
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I spent a weekend in Orange County amid a chemical tank crisis and broke this story about concerns over air quality testing after 50,000 people evacuated were told it was safe to return home insideclimatenews.org/news/3…
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"I fear we are careening toward a future with fewer and fewer journalists to do the expensive, difficult work of original reporting — going to places, talking to people, digging up information, covering important issues and events, providing context and analysis, investigating the powerful (...) A.I. companies take “data” without consent or compensation (...) A chatbot can only spit out “facts” because it illegally copied entire news articles"
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everyone should read this nuanced, rigorously reported story by my very talented @indyweek colleague Chloe Courtney Bohl — a portrait of Outlanders, North Carolina’s first self-governing homeless encampment. indyweek.com/news/inside-out…
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"The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good."
—Pope Leo XIV
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Documents reveal WakeMed snubbed its rival’s offer to merge, despite UNC Health offering $3 billion more than Charlotte-based Atrium Health.
@TheAssemblyNC
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Duke U's data center on Central Campus will be small, but Academic Council meeting minutes show DU could eventually build data center "nodes" on and off-campus; how these projects align with DU's net-zero goal is ... <shrugs>
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From @dankanenando: A former staffer for NC Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey says she received "uncomfortable" texts from him. "I might jump your bones. Watch out!!!" one text msg reportedly said. "You’re hotter than you realize," another said. #ncpol
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absolutely wild scoop by my @indyweek colleague Chloe Courtney Bohl on the Town of Cary’s $330k spend on “documentary-style videos about town projects and culture”—including a mini doc about the leadup to a staff flash dance—for internal use. indyweek.com/news/cary-video…
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