The news cycle moves fast — often it’s easy to miss stories, and hard to fully digest them. The Port City Daily newsroom podcast gives you a chance to catch up, and go deeper. Whether it’s putting the news in a broader context, exploring the details of a complicated issue, or taking a behind-the-scenes look at how the newsroom broke a story, the newsroom podcast helps take the news to the next level.
This week, we took a look at a story about Foxes Boxes. In on sense, it’s a story about a downtown restaurant that runs an externship program for young men and women trying to get the work experience to jump the wage gap. But in a broader sense, it’s about an interconnected web of issues ranging from traffic to affordable housing to the development. Dive deeper, and how it all connects.
Miss the story? Read it here: Foxes Boxes seeks to close Wilmington’s wage gap through training. And it offers affordable meals, too
And, speaking of developments, we take a look at a recent story about the considerable amount of development proposed for a narrow stretch of Military Cutoff Road. We tackled reader questions – including, ‘can anything improve this?’ – and look at how Military Cutoff fits into the bigger picture of local development.
Want a big-picture view of what’s going on along Miltary Cutoff Road? We have you covered: Coming to Military Cutoff Road: 2 grocery stores, 2 hotels and more than 1,200 apartments
These stories represent just a piece of the puzzle — to see how they’re all connected, check out some of these other stories referenced in our podcast.
