Ned Barnett

5 days ago | newsobserver.com | Ned Barnett

Raleigh sprouts new apartment buildings, stores and subdivisions at a rapid pace, but what may not be growing in the City of Oaks are trees. It's hard to say exactly how many trees are being lost to development. The most recent assessment came in a Wake County report that measured the change in tree canopy cover from 2010-2020. Countywide, the tree canopy shrank by 3.6 percent, or 11,122 acres. In Raleigh, the decrease was 2.2 percent, or 1,305 acres.

1 week ago | charlotteobserver.com | Ned Barnett

At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administrators have launched the School of Civic Life and Leadership, the brainchild of brainchild of Republican-appointed boards of trustees and governors, that can address the campus balance issues at the university. ​ Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill Echoes of the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case are being heard at UNC-Chapel Hill.

1 week ago | charlotteobserver.com | Ned Barnett

For Hillel Abrams, the trouble started with a teenage rumble when he got hit in the face, an injury that led to permanent damage to his nose and his ability to breathe. A half-century later, he's still fighting, but this time it's a fight to sue a North Carolina doctor who promised to fix the damage, but Abrams thinks only made it worse.

1 week ago | newsobserver.com | Ned Barnett

An ICE enforcement team arrests an immigrant in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. ICE officers are working with multiple federal agencies, including Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Contributed His lawyers call him Y.A.P.A., a shielded name based on his initials, because they fear what might happen if he's sent back to Venezuela.

2 weeks ago | charlotteobserver.com | Ned Barnett

The State Board of Elections has its first meeting with its new Republican majority in the Dobbs Building in downtown Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. From left, Jeff Carmon, Stacy "Four" Eggers, chair Francis De Luca, Siobhan Millen and Bob Rucho. [email protected] The State Board of Elections is not an agency most voters know about, but its decisions can affect every voter and close elections.