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Housing affordability, availability top the news in 2025 (NC Newsline)

Unreliable Jobs Data Undermines Fed’s Grip on the Economy (GlobeSt.)

20 NC legislators are running unopposed, and they’re all Democrats (WFDD)

Charlotte apartment development slows dramatically while market absorbs 11,500 units (Charlotte Business Journal)

Inside the North Carolina GOP’s decade-long push to seize power from state’s Democratic governors (Salon)

How many is 96,000? Key housing number cited by Moore is hard to explain (Newsfromthestates.com)

Rising seas are destroying North Carolina homes. This 9th grader designed a solution (FastCompany)

Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says. (New York Times)

4 compelling races to watch in North Carolina’s state legislative primaries | Opinion (News & Observer)

The Slow Death of Epic Systems (Julio La Torre)

No, North Carolina didn’t just ban cellphone use in cars, despite AI aggregators saying it did (PolitiFact)

Shifting water infrastructure decisions to local governments could accelerate housing, advocates say (Smartcitiesdive)

This town was founded for one reason only: To shoot dogs (NC Rabbit Hole)

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“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” – Ernest Hemingway

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