This story was written by Tanner Hall, originally published in The Sylva Herald. Four months after a father of four died in a hit and run in Cullowhee, there’s new action to protect other pedestrians who use overcrowded, unsafe Ledbetter Road. Transportation officials hope to link Ledbetter and Monteith Gap roads. The connector near Western Carolina […]
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Is change coming? Candidates battle it out
This story was written by Tanner Hall, originally published in The Sylva Herald. Some of Jackson County’s most pressing issues – the ones current officials have been working to solve for the better part of the past year – are helping to shape the upcoming local election. Candidates running for the Jackson County Board of Commissioners […]
Mass incarceration from a federal and state perspective
The United States imprisons more people at a higher rate and for longer periods than any other country in the world. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are over 225,000 state prisoners that are currently incarcerated for drug-related offenses – a costly result of policies created during the drug war that began […]
Vecinos, Inc. celebrates 10 years of assisting WNC farmworkers
North Carolina is home to about 150,000 farmworkers, among the largest in the country, and yet we hear so little about them. Majority of those workers speak Spanish as their native language. Farmworkers, both in the state and throughout the country, face tough living conditions, discrimination and language-related barriers that often go unnoticed, despite North […]