Jeremy Markovich
Founder and Editor at North Carolina Rabbit Hole
Journalist in NC 📬 Newsletter: @ncrabbithole 🎩 Comms: @character_wfu 🎓 Adjunct professor @WakeForest 🕶 At Bluesky now, mostly (@ncrabbithole.com)
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1 week ago |
ncrabbithole.com | Jeremy Markovich
Last week, the Trump administration denied what could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Western North Carolina, which is still cleaning up after Hurricane Helene. Basically, FEMA wants to match 90% of the expenses that state and local governments are paying for recovery, which includes debris cleanup. FEMA says it usually only matches 75%, but made an exception for Hurricane Helene. North Carolina wants 100%, which FEMA denied, first in April and again last week after an appeal.
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2 weeks ago |
open.substack.com | Jeremy Markovich
Fifty years ago, when the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was a mere 200 years old, a NASCAR PR guy hired some dude, dressed him up like a cast member from Hamilton, put him on a horse, and sent him off on a 600-mile ride from Charlotte to Philadelphia. About halfway through, a local sheriff arrested the rider, Jerry Linker, for “overriding” his horse. Who tipped off the sheriff? Why, it was Humpy Wheeler, the same NASCAR PR guy who’d hired Linker in the first place.
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3 weeks ago |
ncrabbithole.com | Jeremy Markovich
Before we get to the hatin’, here’s something nice. Last week my friend Mike Graff set off on a quest to get the answer to an easy question: What is Charlotte, anyway? It’s an unanswerable prompt, because the city really never is. The city has a pulse. And the pulse is different for different people. In one beat, Charlotte can bring you to tears. The next can make you cringe. The next can make you laugh. Or scream. The next can challenge you to think about your role in our 250-year-old story.
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1 month ago |
ncrabbithole.com | Jeremy Markovich
Not long after I started at Our State, I took a day-long, 402 mile road trip through Eastern North Carolina, mostly because I hadn’t been out there too much and wanted to see a lot in a short amount of time.
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1 month ago |
ncrabbithole.com | Jeremy Markovich
One of the things I struggle with—even though I haven’t worked in local TV news for a decade—is a constant desire to vacuum up information. Back then, I needed to pay attention to everything that happened everywhere because I had fill a daily newscast with interesting stories. I also wanted to sound smart in pitch meetings.
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