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The longleaf pine is an iconic tree species in North Carolina. It once covered 90 million acres across the Southeastern U.S.

As of Sept. 14, Robeson County had the lowest vaccination rate in North Carolina with less than one-third of the population fully vaccinated.

In their last two weeks in the country, U.S. troops evacuated more than 123,000 people out of Afghanistan. The process has been called 鈥渢wo weeks of chaos and 20 years of war.鈥�

Health care is notoriously expensive in the United States. And it鈥檚 often the patient鈥檚 responsibility not just to pay, but to make sure they aren鈥檛 paying too much. But where do those numbers come from? And how would you know if you鈥檙e paying too much?

As the heat of summer lingers and the pandemic hits another peak, many North Carolinians are considering one more "staycation" before school begins.

Host Dave DeWitt speaks with Rose Hoban, editor and founder of North Carolina Health News, about how we should feel toward those who have chosen to remain unvaccinated, the efforts to increase North Carolina's vaccination rate, and why some of them might still work.

State lawmakers soon will start the redistricting process and if history is any guide, the effort to attain partisan advantage through political maps will end up in court.

America鈥檚 Favorite Drive. That鈥檚 what the National Park Service calls the Blue Ridge Parkway, and they have the numbers to back it up: 14 million visitors in 2020. But like the rest of the South through which it winds, the Blue Ridge Parkway wasn鈥檛 always welcoming - or even accessible - to all of America.

In recent years, Confederate monuments have been removed across the South, but in some cases, the bases remain planted in the ground. The Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, sees it as a concern.

Host Leoneda Inge speaks with James Williams, the retired public defender for Orange and Chatham Counties, and Kimberly Probolus, a fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, about where Confederate Monuments in North Carolina have been taken down, where they still stand, and how these symbols of hate stand in the way of an honest reckoning with systemic white supremacy in the South.