by Beacon Media | May 14, 2025 | Healthcare, Local Organizing, North Carolina, North Carolina Community, North Carolina State Politics
More than 14,000 North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive ‘Innovations Waiver’ benefits under Medicaid. My son is among those receiving help.
But thousands more North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities — almost 19,000 of them — are on the “Registry of Unmet Needs,” the waitlist to receive these services under Medicaid.
by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton | Apr 30, 2025 | Business, Cost of living, Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Local Politics, North Carolina Community, North Carolina State Politics, Uncategorized
As her son graduates high school, the writer realizes the tremendous costs of childcare early in her son’s life have ripple effects well past those years. By Gwen Frisbie-Fulton Beacon Media Credit: PickPik I’m a heck of a proud mom. My son is graduating next...
by Beacon Media | Apr 22, 2025 | Black Community, Local Organizing, Local Politics, North Carolina Community, Uncategorized
An organizer considers his and his town’s past as he confronts a time of political division. By Ryan Wegener Beacon Media Source: UNC Chapel Hill – Documenting the American South Most Confederate monuments face North to represent defending against...
by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton | Apr 1, 2025 | Cost of living, Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Local Organizing, North Carolina Community, Reclaiming Rural
The writer reflects on her love of all things associated with the working class. By Gwen Frisbie-Fulton Working Class Storytelling City of Greenville, North Carolina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons It started in the back seat of my family’s Jeep Cherokee, the...
by Dalton George | Apr 1, 2025 | Cost of living, Dalton George, Housing, Local Politics, North Carolina Community, North Carolina State Politics, Reclaiming Rural, Western North Carolina
A young renter — who is also a member of the Boone Town Council — reflects on his and North Carolina’s affordable housing crisis. By Dalton George Beacon Media It took a long time, and it was more money than I imagined spending, but I’m proud to...
by Jeremy Markovich | Mar 18, 2025 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina, North Carolina Community
People are all up in arms about the North Carolina accents from the latest season of “The White Lotus.” So where exactly did they come from? By Jeremy Markovich Beacon Media Jason Isaacs with Morgana O’Reilly on Season 3 of “The White Lotus.”...
