Report: Wake DA Took No Action After a Colleague Reported a Sexual Assault
Lorrin Freeman didn’t investigate an alleged incident in which an assistant district attorney groped another prosecutor at a work retreat after the woman reported the assault.
Sunday Reading: Peter Hans’s North Carolina Education Empire
The Assembly’s deep dive into the UNC System’s president, and the challenges he’ll face helming an institution wrought with divisions.
UNC J School Dean, Mega-Donor, Appear at Odds Over Hannah-Jones Emails
Walter Hussman, Jr. says he sent emails to which he didn’t expect responses. Dean Susan King says the emails contained “repeated questions challenging our hiring of Nikole Hannah-Jones.” UNC faces legal action tomorrow.
15 Minutes: Kyle Villemain, Founder of The Assembly
The Assembly is a digital, statewide magazine covering people, places, and institutions that launched last month.
What’s the First Thing You Think of When You See Raleigh’s New Logo?
Last week, the city of Raleigh unveiled its new logo, for which it paid the princely sum of $226,000$83,000 to Oklahoma-based consultants to do research, and $143,000 to the local design firm The Assembly to actually make the thing. Perhaps inevitably, there were, shall we say, mixed reviews on the internet. But since we’re not…
The City of Raleigh Wants to Fix Its “Logo Problem” and Develop a “Narrative Foundation” for Its Brand
Of the images conjured up during a city council work session on how to create a brand for Raleigh, the most memorable came from communications staff member Eric Bannister, a senior graphic designer. Council members were hearing a presentation Tuesday from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, marketing firm Cubic, which had spent weeks in Raleigh interviewing employees…
