Cape Fear Rundown

A weekly look at stories from around the state and the Cape Fear region, featuring conversations with the journalists working on those topics. Hosted and produced by WHQR reporter Camille Mojica — 'Cami' to her friends.

CFR: See ya later, Camille!

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, the newsroom interviews Camille on her final episode of CFR about her future endeavors, music, swing dancing, and food.

06-16
31:31

CFR: New Hanover County School district updates

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Rachel Keith gives us some statewide and local school system updates.

05-26
14:59

CFR: Development 101; an octopus of revenue streams

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly tells us about her upcoming story on development and then Ben joins us to talk about all the ways our county government makes money its able to spend.

05-18
30:44

CFR: What's going on at NHRMC?

Welcome Back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Ben joins us to talk about New Hanover Regional Medical Center's latest Leapfrog grade, and to talk about reporting he's been doing surrounding the hospital and Novant.

05-13
16:25

CFR: The Wilmington crime lab lawsuit updates

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, we have Ben join us to revisit the Wilmington Crime Lab lawsuit.

05-06
16:32

CFR: Interesting housing updates; the future of DEI

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly joins us to talk about a joint city and county homelessness meeting, and then Ben joins us to go over diversity, equity and inclusion and it's potential fate locally.

04-30
27:10

CFR: WFD's budget request; innovation in housing solutions

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Ben joins us to talk to us about a particular budget request from the Wilmington Fire Department and then, Kelly joins us to give a sneak peek into her upcoming Newsroom episode.

04-21
20:29

CFR: Leland's upcoming budget work session; ADUs as housing potential

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, we have a conversation with Nikolai about the Leland property tax hike and some of his takeaways, and then, Kelly talks to us about her conversation with the founder of Strong Towns.

04-07
19:49

CFR: Snap! Red light cameras

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Ben and Cami talk about red light cameras and the people who oppose them.

03-30
20:42

It's WHQR's Spring Pledge Drive!

WHQR is celebrating 40 years on the air this year during our Spring Pledge Drive.

03-24
03:30

CFR: Housing and budget updates

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Kelly and Ben join us to give some important local updates.

03-17
32:43

CFR: Elections wrap up!

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown! This week Ben joins us to go over elections results and trends.

03-10
13:17

CFR: Traveling for reporting; angry public meetings

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Kelly joins us to ask me about my visit to Guilford county and to talk about why we travel for reporting, and then Nikolai joins us to talk about a meeting he covered.

03-02
18:42

CFR: Voting has begun!; Nikolai and passenger rail

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown! Early voting has started! Stick around for a PSA and some helpful info to arm you with everything you need to know about voting in this year’s Primary Elections. Then, Nikolai joins us to talk passenger rail.

02-17
18:55

CFR: Kelly's latest; Ben's documents tell a story

Cami is back from being sick (after managing to outrun Covid for years, it finally caught up to her). This week we catch up with Kelly to go over some of her coverage from this past week, and then, Ben joins us with more documents that tell a story...

02-11
26:12

CFR: What's it like to host live radio?

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Kelly joins us to walk through what hosting is actually like.

01-28
17:43

CFR: The Warming Shelter is necessary; updates in trial for TRU Colors

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, we talk to Kelly about the Warming Shelter and what it is, and then Ben has updates for us in the TRU Colors double-homicide case we didn't touch on last week.

01-21
24:20

CFR: Closing Mosley, and what mountains of court docs can tell us...

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week Rachel joins us to talk about updates on Mosley's Career Readiness Academy closing, and then Ben walks us through mountains of court documents.

01-15
32:18

CFR: New Hanover County Schools' budget, and how The Newsroom sausage is made

Welcome back to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, Rachel joins us to talk about the upcoming budget cycle for New Hanover Schools and then Kelly joins us to talk about how the Newsroom gets produced from start to finish.

01-07
26:06

CFR: Bridge politics; Holly Ridge; final 2023 thoughts

Welcome back, to the Cape Fear Rundown. This week, we talk about how politics plays into building and infrastructure projects with Ben, and then, we talk to Nikolai about his reporting on Holly Ridge.

12-31
30:52

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