Trying to get wholesome food into young children might seem like an exhausting exercise for many parents and child care providers in today’s rush-rush world. …
Anne Blythe | North Carolina Health News
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Food is a big deal at the N.C. State Fair; dozens of inspectors asked with keeping it safe
People go to the annual North Carolina State Fair for all kinds of reasons. It might be the topsy-turvy rides. Or perhaps the Village of Yesteryear and the antique farm machinery. Often, though, the food is a major attraction.
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High Point University closer to welcoming students to only private dental school in state
As Tropical Storm Ophelia showered the North Carolina Piedmont with a windy drizzle Saturday, dozens of people at High Point University gathered inside the Congdon Hall auditorium for an unusual ceremony. After several years of planning, campus leaders and guests were ready to break ground for the Workman School of Dental Medicine. The weather wasn’t cooperating, so they headed indoors, where 10 gleaming shovels on a table awaited them near a shallow dirt-filled pit on the patterned carpet.
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In heat wave, NC inmates still live in prisons without air conditioning
This has been a summer of intense heat domes, record high temperatures and strained power grids feeding cranked-up air conditioners that are working overtime to cool homes, businesses and other buildings. As many North Carolina residents seek chilled shelter from stifling heat and indices expected to top 100 degrees, many in the state’s prison population are confined inside buildings without air conditioning.
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Mannequin exams, new instructor licenses: Changes could come to NC dental laws
North Carolina’s dental profession sometimes gets blamed for being too reluctant to make any changes to laws defining who can practice dentistry in the state in order to keep a tight lock on who gets licensed to provide oral health care. There could be more change, albeit incremental, if a bill making its way through legislative committees is approved.
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Amid quarrels in the General Assembly over gun laws, NC governor tries new tactic to lessen firearm violence
Democratic lawmakers, undaunted by the political odds against them in North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly, have championed bills year after year to rein in gun violence over the past decade. Their Republican opponents, emboldened by better numbers in both legislative chambers this year, have adopted legislation that would put North Carolina on a very different route.
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Cooper’s $29.3 billion spending proposal provides millions to address health care workforce shortages
In the proposed state spending plan that Gov. Roy Cooper released on Wednesday, he not only makes another push for Medicaid expansion but also recommends making a $45 million investment into North Carolina’s health care workforce.