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3:39pm Aug 30, 2021Culture CultureCarolina Curious: Where Did The Name Chess Pie Come From?
Traditional chess pie is easy to make and calls for the simplest of household ingredients — eggs, butter, sugar, cornmeal, and vinegar — and it’s been a Southern dessert favorite
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4:45pm Dec 07, 2018Human Interest Human InterestCarolina Curious: How Does NCDOT Prioritize Clearing Snowy Roads?
As the Triad prepares for potentially heavy snow this weekend, people at the North Carolina Department of Transportation are getting ready too.
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7:38am Nov 27, 2018Human Interest Human InterestCarolina Curious: Felix Walker Talks To Buncombe (And Sparks A New Word)
Earlier this year, we aired a Carolina Curious edition about the origins of the word “Cackalacky.”
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11:42am Oct 31, 2018Politics & Government Politics & GovernmentCarolina Curious: Do TV And Radio Stations Have To Run Political Advertisements?
Chances are, sometime in recent days, you’ve seen or heard a political ad.
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7:00am Sep 12, 2018Environment Environment Health & Safety Human Interest News ScienceCarolina Curious: Why Are Weather Alerts Sometimes Hard To Understand?
One of the services that radio stations like WFDD provide is broadcasting alerts from the National Weather Service.
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7:00am Aug 31, 2018Economy Economy Politics & GovernmentCarolina Curious: What Is The North Carolina Industrial Hemp Program?
Industrial hemp has fallen in and out of favor since George Washington first cultivated the fiber on his Mt. Vernon farm, using it to make items such as rope and canvas sails.
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10:51am Jul 16, 2018Human Interest Human InterestCarolina Curious: What Do You Call Residents Of Your City?
If you're from North Carolina, most people would agree: you're a North Carolinian.
But what do you call someone from High Point or Boone? What about Winston-Salem? In our latest installment of Carolina Curious, we found that the answers are all over the map.
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6:00am May 24, 2018Transportation TransportationCarolina Curious: Why Are Some DMV Offices In North Carolina So Outdated?
When Liz Noland and her husband moved from Virginia to Winston-Salem in 2011, she went to the local DMV office to get a new driver’s license, but she wasn’t able to leave with it in hand that day.
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6:29am Apr 06, 2018Human Interest Human InterestCarolina Curious: Who Put The 'Cackalacky' In North Carolina?
There’s an old nickname for North Carolina, with a lot of variations: Cackalacky. Cackalack. North Cack.
Some folks love the terms. And a few seem to hate them.
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6:00am Mar 23, 2018Crime Crime Education NewsCarolina Curious: Can School Police Question Your Child Without Consent?
After the deadly shooting at a Florida high school last month, lawmakers all over the country are looking at how to make schools safer, including in North Carolina. Part of that movement has focused on beefing up the presence of school resource officers, or SROs.
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1:08pm Mar 12, 2018Transportation TransportationCarolina Curious: Greensboro's Walkability And The Pedestrian's Plight
The Triad Metropolitan area is expected to see its population grow by nearly 10 percent over the next two decades.
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5:18pm Jan 30, 2018Health & Safety Health & Safety TransportationRed Lights, Roadkill, And Wreckers: A Carolina Curious Transportation Roundup
You’ve been asking about a LOT of transportation issues in our series, Carolina Curious.
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7:00am Jan 19, 2018Transportation TransportationCarolina Curious: Squaring The Gas Tax With Electric Vehicles
In 2016, the number of registered plug-in and battery-powered vehicles around the globe jumped 60 percent from the previous year, and there’s no slowdown in sight.
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