 
Adam Wagner
NC Newsroom Editor/ReporterAdam Wagner is an editor/reporter with the NC Newsroom, a journalism collaboration expanding state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences. The collaboration is funded by a two-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Adam can be reached at awagner@ncnewsroom.org
Wagner has more than 10 years of North Carolina reporting experience. Most recently, he served as Climate Change and Environmental Reporter at the News & Observer. There, he was part of a team that won several national awards for the investigative series Big Poultry, including an Investigative Reporters & Editors award and the Victor K. McElheny Award. As a reporter for the StarNews in Wilmington, he helped lead the team that broke the GenX/PFAS story. Wagner is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism & Honors program at Ohio University.
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                        North Carolina joins other states in lawsuit to protect SNAP benefits, prevent 'major hunger crisis'The Trump Administration has said it will not use reserve funds to continue providing SNAP amid the federal shutdown. More than 1.3 million North Carolinians use the program to buy food.
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                        The new map shifts eastern North Carolina counties between the state's 1st and 3rd Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both.
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                        The NC General Assembly approved the new Congressional map this week. It shifts the state's 1st Congressional District from a swing district to one where a Republican can more easily win.
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                        The N.C. House of Representatives voted to approve the new map Wednesday. It redraws the state's 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts to give Republicans a clear advantage in both seats.
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                        The Senate formally passed the new map Tuesday, and it started to make its way through the state House of Representatives.
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                        North Carolina Republicans redrew district lines in eastern North Carolina with the intention of shifting the balance of the state's First Congressional District. It is the latest salvo in a national effort to render U.S. Congress elections uncompetitive.
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                        Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined 22 other states in suing the Environmental Protection Agency to restore the $7 billion program. It would have helped provide rooftop solar systems to low-income and rural households.
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                        The General Assembly plans to vote on the new map during its session next week.
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                        Both campaigns have attacked the other for presumed failures in hurricane recovery. Whatley pointed to Cooper's work on Florence and Matthew, Cooper to Whatley's role in Helene recovery.
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                        The new map would shift voters' districts to give Republicans the advantage in 11 U.S. House seats.
 
 
 
 
 
 
