CoastLine

Cleve Callison is probably a name you associate with WHQR fundraising -- whether it’s the signature at the bottom of a donation request letter or the voice singing Super Chicken when an hourly goal is reached during an on-air pledge drive. When you hear the name Cleve Callison you might think about HQR’s weekly segment featuring your calls and emails – Friday Feedback.

New Hanover County shows significant demographic and achievement disparities across its 42 schools. That’s according to analysis from the Inclusion Project – a report out of the University of North Carolina’s Center for Civil Rights in Chapel Hill. Between 2006 and 2010, New Hanover County’s School Board adopted a neighborhood school model that, according to that report, has exacerbated the disparities. Today, 66% of the schools in New Hanover County are racially imbalanced. The district’s four

Short term rentals: they’re those properties that are rented out by an owner to vacationers or tourists -- often for a week, a few weeks, or a few days. Vacation Rental By Owner ( VRBO) and Airbnb are two of the most popular websites for these types of rentals.

Citizens from in and around Wilmington packed UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium Wednesday night to get answers from a panel of experts about the GenX water crisis.

GenX is an emerging contaminant – a chemical compound that is both product and byproduct in this story.

HB2, the North Carolina legislation that mandated bathroom use according to the gender on one’s birth certificate, helped to stoke a mainstream national conversation about people who are transgender.

One shark expert recently described these sea creatures as the most poorly-understood mega-fauna, not just because of popular culture with the movie Jaws in its canon (never mind Shark Week ), but because the travel patterns of sharks cover great distances. On this edition of CoastLine, we, yes, de-bunk some of those pop culture myths – but more importantly, we learn about what kind of shark research is taking place in and around the waters of North Carolina. All three of our experts have been

The City of Wilmington saw a rash of urban fires in the 19 th century – making the surviving buildings that much more precious. Urban renewal in the mid-20 th century had a similar effect on some of Wilmington’s historic legacy, but heritage tourism is booming.

The North Carolina Fisheries Reform Act will be 20 years old this August . As we learned last week, that policy came to be after extended and heated debate from stakeholders on all sides of the issue. Most of those involved at the time describe it as better than nothing – but most definitely a compromise.

Last week I wrote about our effort to restore our HQR News signal to full power. A few days afterwards, I received this email from an HD2 listener in Brunswick County: The restoration of beautiful music is always a good thing. Thank you so much. It has been sorely missed. Listening to 91.3 during the day has strengthened my resolve to listen to serious music more during the day, once it was restored (perhaps with the exception of the news and Coastline). Unfortunately, I try to remain informed,