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SPCA Wake offers increased pet food assistance with grant from The Petco Foundation. Source: SPCA of Wake County, North Carolina

SPCA Wake Increases Pet Food Assistance to Help Pet Owners in Need During Pandemic

August 1, 2020 Guest Author or Contributor

Recent grant from the Petco Foundation funds crucial department during this time Many families are struggling to make ends meet, but the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) of Wake County is […]

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. Source: NC Office of the Governor.

NC Governor Cooper: Congress Needs to Act Now and Extend Unemployment Benefits for Struggling Workers

July 23, 2020 Guest Author or Contributor

By Governor Roy Cooper Next week, thousands of North Carolinians who are out of work due to COVID-19 will see a drastic reduction in their unemployment benefits despite this pandemic being far from over. The […]

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The Strange-ness: Car Vending Machine

October 3, 2017

Carvana, an eCommerce platform for buying used cars, in August 2017 unveiled their five-story, all-glass Car Vending Machine in Raleigh, North Carolina. Holding 18 cars, the Raleigh Car Vending Machine serves as a fun and […]

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NASA Tests Urban Drone Traffic Management in Nevada and Texas

February 19, 2019

NASA has selected two organizations to host the final phase of its four-year series of increasingly complicated technical demonstrations involving small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones. The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems […]

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Couple Shares Bigfoot Photo Taken in West Virginia

March 9, 2020

By Kay Whatley, Editor Driving through southern West Virginia, its cities and towns are interspersed among the state’s millions of acres of forests. What might look like wilderness in the daytime, at night flickers with […]