UNC-Chapel Hill transferred $21 million from other funds to the athletic department last year–and that was before it agreed to spend millions of dollars more on Bill Belichick. @theassemblync.bsky.social @axios.com @themhartman.bsky.social @zeanes.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

An Axios-Assembly collab looking into the big bet UNC is making on football 👇🤝

Scoop: Duke and UNC will partner on new $2 billion children's hospital in the Triangle www.axios.com/local/raleig...

Breaking: Wake County has dismissed 180 court cases and counting, citing the reliability of a North Carolina state trooper as a witness. Most of those cases are DWIs. www.axios.com/local/raleig...

House votes to override Gov Cooper's veto of S382. Gallery erupts in shouts. Warning issued. Vote count stands at 72-46

I'll never get over having to catch up your chronically offline loved ones on the day's events. You're telling me you didn't spend 34 minutes of your life today concerned we were about to lose the city of San Francisco?

No. No. A thousand times no. www.si.com/nfl/giants/n...

Amgen expands its investment at Holly Springs biotech campus by $1 billion www.axios.com/local/raleig...

This art installation at the North Carolina Museum of Art is fanastic. Each of the swings plays notes from one of four instruments—harp, piano, guitar, and vibraphone.

Let’s not speak this into existence 😩

UNC is allergic to making layups. 😵‍💫

The Hurricane Helene relief bill also targets the land zoning power of cities in North Carolina. The measure could impact Raleigh and Durham’s ability to set up transit districts, local leaders say www.axios.com/local/raleig...

How tariffs could impact companies in North Carolina next year if Trump approved them www.axios.com/local/raleig...

The Patrick Mahomes script is exhausting when you’re rooting against him

Great record 🎧

The owner of Banh’s just shouted Go Heels randomly at a customer. So I love them even more now

Why, in the year 2024, do many job ads in local newspapers require applicants to mail in their printed resumes? The answer explains a lot about work visas, green cards, and modern U.S. immigration: www.newsobserver.com/news/busines...

Big winds rolling through the Piedmont tonight

We got Lucille to make the jump 👋

Flashback to this iconic 2021 vintage Thomas Oide chart

This is an interesting paper. Definitely keeping an eye on what the property tax increase in Raleigh does over the next few years as well as the expected large jump in tax values coming to Durham next year.

A controversial North Carolina nonprofit giving grants to university researchers is ready to start spending the $500 million it received from the state even as its board continues to disagree with itself

In the NC General Assembly’s new Hurricane Helene relief bill, Republican lawmakers would move the State Board of Elections to the State Auditor’s office, which will be led by a Republican for the first time in more than a decade. Governor loses appointment powers over the board too.

The Local Reporter has a survey out asking if they should change their name. They still have not announced their new board, three months after stating they had a new board. triangleblogblog.com/2024/08/25/i...

Allison Riggs (D) is now up 623 votes over Jefferson Griffin (R) in the NC State Supreme Court election. I've been to bad concerts with more than 623 people. Hell, the Spindoctors drew over 1,000. & it ain't over yet (recounts, likely lawsuits, oh my!) #ncpol

66 votes separate the NC Supreme Court candidates. Only a couple of counties left to report #ncpol

Durham semiconductor firm Wolfspeed fires its CEO after shares of the company plummeted this year www.axios.com/local/raleig...

Do these guardian helmets actually work? If they do, why doesn’t the NFL make them mandatory?

First half UNC was so bad that the group chat was comparing them to Tottenham. Second half Heels, however, have been electric this season.

Huge development in North Carolina: as counties finish their counts, Democratic Justice Allison Riggs, who was trailing by thousands of vote this am, is now ahead by… *106* votes statewide. Awaiting final count everywhere.

What was the barista trying to tell me

Definitely feels like Bluesky has some momentum (and way fewer bots). Interested to see if it continues to keep that energy.