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•  ‘Multiple layers of safeguards’: Election experts talk about the behind-the-scenes work of ensuring fair elections in Forsyth County

  14-05-2024 18:57 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: A town hall discussion with cybersecurity experts, election law attorneys and election officials at UNCSA’s Gerald Freedman Theater. From left to right: Former mayor of Charlotte Jennifer Roberts, chief risk officer for the State of North Carolina and former chief information security officer at NCSBE Torry Crass, cybersecurity expert & professor at UNC-Greensboro Dr. Stephen Tate, member of Forsyth County Board of Elections Catherine Jourdan, elections director for For
  
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• Q&A with NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe on HBCUs, her unique voice and her favorite NC spots

  14-05-2024 16:07 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Featured photo: Ayesha Rascoe, photographed for NPR, 2 May 2022, in Washington DC. (photo by Mike Morgan for NPR)On May 17, NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe, who hosts “Weekend Edition Sunday,” will be in Greensboro for the city’s Greensboro Bound Literary Festival. Rascoe, an NC native, will be talking with WFDD’s Amy Diaz about a new collection of essays she edited, HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience, at the Van Dyke Performance Space in the Greensboro Cu
  
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• EDITORIAL: The fix is in

  14-05-2024 15:14 via triad-city-beat.com
  
  Ever get the feeling that the fix is in? Like the deck is stacked, the outcome predetermined, the prophecies self-fulfilling?From the sidelines, we’re watching presidential candidate Donald Trump slip one criminal trial after another — on technicalities, through delay tactics and other forms of lawyer bullshit. Sure, he’s got to sit through a few embarrassing weeks in New York for the current money-laundering trial — that’s the Stormy Daniels thing. But his criminal
  
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