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“I have no idea what we’re going to do”: Housing shortage leaves NC low-income renters stymied By Greg Childress New report identifies a yawning housing gap for hundreds of thousands of NC households Julia Stokes and her daughter moved into the Helen Wright Center, a Raleigh shelter for women experiencing homelessness, late last year after […] The post Weekend reads: NC’s housing shortage, polluters must pay, and previewing the legislative session appeared firs...

Housing shortage leaves NC low-income renters stymied

In the year of infrastructure, state officials as they head into the legislative session...

In a 104-degree room with a lot of sweaty people. but first, gun control. president obama has put his proposals on the table and now the fight to get them made into law leads to congress. >> the president concedes enacting new gun laws will be difficult. abcs karen travers joining us from washington with more on this. good morning, karen. >> reporter: good morning, paula and john. after the sandy hook elementary tragedy, president obama said the nation needs to change. yesterday, he outlined w...

But i beg you to try very hard. julia, i will try very hard. >> reporter: hes going to have to. the president is up against a congress thats very reluctant to pass comprehensive gun control. to get the ball rolling, mr. obama signed 23 executive actions that dont need approval by lawmakers. they include -- strengthening the national criminal background check system and more federal research on gun violence. but the president said these are just first steps. >> congress, too, must act. and congre...

And recognizing that we honor their memories in part by doing everything we can to prevent this from happening again. but we also heard from some unexpected people, in particular i started getting a lot of letters from kids. four of them are here today, grant fritz, julia stokes, hina zeha. and taja good. they are pretty representative of some of the messages that i got. these are some pretty smart letters from some pretty smart young people. hina, a third grader. you can go ahead and wave, hina...