Unfortunately, Silent Sam is coming back to the UNC-Chapel Hill. This news comes after a group of student protesters gathered on Aug. 20 to remove the Confederate monument. On Dec. 3, UNC-Chapel Hill...

What is food insecurity and how does it affect Watauga County? The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe...

Political parties have become contentious and contemptuous, with one side inevitably winning the vote at the expense of the other, leaving voters in a perpetual blame game as they vie for the few opportunities...

Immigration, or more specifically undocumented immigration, is something of a hot-button topic in America. Seventy-eight percent of voters felt that immigration was an extremely important issue in the...

With the recent IPCC report release came worldwide shock and anxiety. The report acknowledges and accepts the long-standing scientific consensus that climate change is real and humans are causing it. It...

Leave it to the inventors of the papermaking and printing processes to bring the world of news into the year 3018. On the world stage of broadcast journalism, China debuted two new news anchors. The reporters,...

The 2018 midterm elections marked a milestone for voting rights in the U.S. A constitutional amendment on the ballot in Florida restored the right to vote for more than 1 million ex-felons. Kris Kobach,...

With the end of the semester looming on the horizon, mental health is the last thing on most people’s minds. That’s unfortunate because now is exactly the time of year for people to be concerned with...

While the media and public raged, the U.S. government’s response to the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul was predictably borderline apathetic. Despite...

Reading the George Orwell novel “1984” as a high school student, it was easy to assume this dystopian future was far from the truth. Going back, however, it’s eerie to read some of the quotes. “And...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in October stating that if we do not implement “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” we are heading...

In Boone finding parking is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. Actually, the needle is easier to find because at least its existence is guaranteed. In Boone, there’s no guarantee of finding...