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The latest local + national news to know now.
All roads lead to NC. Per U.S. Census Bureau data, the Tar Heel State saw the highest number of new residents—84,000—leading to a 1.32% population increase.
Follow the money: The Wake County Board of Commissioners approved $23.5 million in Hospitality Tax funding for 12 projects expanding myriad local sports, arts and cultural facilities.
In a win for Raleigh, the City of Oaks beat out Austin for a BuildOps hub that will bring nearly 300 jobs with average salaries of ~$100,000.
Here’s to 50 years of Wake County EMS! On the heels of its anniversary, the department established a plan to improve its 911 call response.
In a big bet on North Carolina, a new steel manufacturing company selected Hertford County for a nearly $1 billion investment project, which includes a new factory, public road and public dock with access to the Chowan River.
How clean is NC’s tap water, really? The state ranked No. 32 in the U.S. for cleanest tap water, with Hawaii, California and Minnesota taking the top three spots.
An influential affordable housing project in DTR has been scrapped. The Moore Square-adjacent mixed-use development—which originally included a hotel, shops, restaurants, a grocery store, and a 160-unit affordable apartment complex—fell through after Loden Properties withdrew and Harmony Housing declined to lease a part of the site for their part of the project.
Apologies to all bacon lovers. … The processed meat has officially been classified by the World Health Organization as “carcinogenic in humans”—similar to tobacco, arsenic and asbestos.
Work longer for your money? The Social Security Administration raised the full retirement age to 67 for everyone born after 1960.
College students, get ready to cough up more cash. UNC System universities approved the first tuition hike on incoming in-state undergraduate students in nearly a decade, with an average increase of $125 across the 16 schools.
In rather trashy news, Wake County’s landfill is expected to be full by 2045, as its 1.2 million residents collectively produce ~2.3 billion pounds of waste each year.
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