Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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Frank currently serves the 33rd prosecutorial district, which also includes Davie County. Previous district maps had him representing other area counties as well.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina CEO Eric Aft says federal budget cuts to food and farm programs mean people are getting less on each visit.
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Michael Bitzer is a political scientist at Catawba College. He says the gaps show that the country has deep divisions that need to be addressed.
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Lansing was hit hard by the storm, with floodwaters from Big Horse Creek causing many Main Street businesses to shut down.
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Bob McAdoo was an All-American at Smith High School before earning collegiate and pro honors.
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A type of red clay soil, known as the Cecil series, is so culturally important to the region that in the 90s, the legislature named it North Carolina’s official state soil.
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From late summer to early fall, hellbenders lay between 100 to 300 eggs beneath rocks. The park service says moving stones can destroy an entire generation of the amphibians.
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Ivy Johnson is a staff attorney for the North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. WFDD’s Paul Garber spoke to her about the First Amendment’s protections — and limits — in the workplace.
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The field includes sitting council members Eddie Burks and Joey Trogdon, as well as Brett Thompson and Jen Bucardo.
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A local environmental group says opportunities for “green jobs” are growing in the Triad despite a change of focus at the federal level toward non-renewable energy.