CoastLine

CoastLine

By Rachel Lewis HilburnSociety & Culture
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CoastLine episodes

  • CoastLine Candidate Interviews: Wrightsville Beach / H2GO
    On this edition of the CoastLine Candidate Interviews , we spend the first segment with one candidate for the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen. The remaining two segments feature candidates running for Brunswick Regional Water and Sewer H2GO, popularly known as H2GO – who have opposing views on whether to build a reverse osmosis plant. Segment 1: Pat Prince for Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen This is a race that has five candidates vying for two open seats. Only one of the incumbents
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  • CoastLine Candidate Interviews: H2GO Board of Commissioners
    Brunswick Regional Water and Sewer H2GO, popularly known as H2GO, is a water and sewer utility in Brunswick County that serves the northeast portion of the County including Leland, Belville, parts of Navassa, and some customers located outside of these municipal boundaries. H2GO serves over 10,000 water customers and nearly 6,000 sewer customers.
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  • CoastLine: Judy Girard on the Food Network, Gender Gaps in the Board Room and Classroom
    This episode first aired on April 21, 2016. August 25, 2017 update: Judy Girard serves as Vice Chair of the GLOW Academy School Board which is now open. Judy Girard started her television career in the late 1960s and worked her way through the halls of NBC in New York – where she developed shows such as Maury Povich, Jenny Jones, and Jerry Springer. Her decision to move the Phil Donahue show to New York helped solidify it as the pre-eminent talk show in the country. After joining the Food
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  • CoastLine: Confederate Monuments -- Teaching Tool Or Symbol Of White Supremacy?
    Read the Transcript Here . Read the Emails Here . Within the City of Wilmington, statues and street names honoring key members of the Confederacy pepper the landscape. At the entrance to downtown Wilmington, on one corner stands a statue of George Davis, Confederate Attorney General. At a nearby intersection, a monument honoring soldiers of the Confederacy stands. Just last week, vandals splattered red paint on both statues. It appeared, according to the Wilmington Police Department, that
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  • CoastLine: Ocean Plastic is Beyond Garbage Patches and Part of Human Food Chain
    When you use a disposable diaper, some scientists would tell you the plastic in that diaper actually stays in the environment for hundreds of years. The plastic bag you brought home from the grocery store? Estimates vary, but some put the number of years it takes to decompose as high as one thousand. Whether those numbers are accurate or more research needs to be done doesn’t change what we know about how plastics are showing up in oceans all over the world – and not only harming marine life –
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  • CoastLine: Teen Suicide Is Going Up, Not Down, Despite The Fact We Know More
    13 Reasons Why – first a book, then a Netflix series, tells the story of Hannah Baker, a high school student who dies by suicide. But before she carries it out, she creates old-school cassette tapes – each one telling the story of a particular person who hurt her which add up to the 13 reasons why she decided to die. They’re various injuries, small and large, including her rape by a classmate. In April of this year, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) put out a statement
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  • CoastLine: Fall Planting Season Is Almost Here (Despite The Current Tropical Soup)
    With the region’s latest heat wave and the tropical soup that’s spawned Hurricane Gert and three other potential systems in the North Atlantic, it’s hard to think about getting outside and planting anything that isn’t zoned for a humid, subtropical climate. But fall will be here before you know it, and in southeastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina, fall is a great time to plant. We find out why on this edition of CoastLine from our experts, and we hear about the latest garden
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  • CoastLine: Zooplankton Mortality From Seismic Airgun Shocks Scientific Community
    Jump to Transcript. Jump to Related Links. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in late April to expand energy exploration drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The order puts in place a new five-year program, 2019-2024, that will supersede the earlier one – essentially reversing the Obama Administration’s decision to remove the mid-Atlantic region from consideration for offshore drilling. What’s different about this issue compared to so many other national points of debate –
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  • CoastLine: Fraud - An American History From Barnum To Madoff
    There are crooks, criminals, and hucksters out there trying to get your money through investment scams, retail fraud, identity theft, and they’ve been there since commerce began. But are there degrees of hucksterism? What’s the line between an enthusiastic entrepreneur with a brilliant, albeit untested idea versus a good, old-fashioned snake oil salesman who doesn’t really care if what’s in the bottle he’s selling doesn’t work? His goal: to make the sale and move on. How has the regulatory
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CoastLine is a variety interview, arts, and occasional news show, hosted by Rachel Lewis Hilburn.Each week on CoastLine, we meet extraordinary humans -- scholars, writers, dancers, artists, comedians,…