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Send us a text Wilmington’s trees are disappearing faster than they can be replaced. In this episode Shoresides talks with Executive Director Isabel Shepherd of the Alliance for Cape Fear Trees about what’s driving the loss and how their new Code & Canopy report lays out a path forward. Helpful Links Alliance for Cape Fear…
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Send us a text When a million-dollar beach house in the Outer Banks collapses into the surf, it looks like a sudden disaster. But for the people who study coastal risk, it’s anything but. In this episode, we talk with Travis Klondike of NC State’s Coastal Dynamics Design Lab about why. Links: Coastal Dynamics Design…
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Send us a text As the effects of H.R. 1 ripple across the country, North Carolinians are feeling the strain of new SNAP work requirements and a month-long government shutdown. In this episode of Shoresides, host Nicolas Magrino speaks with Emily Kraft and Andrea Cherry of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina…
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Send us a text As the holidays approach, sweetpotatoes are finding their way onto tables across America — but nowhere are they more rooted than in North Carolina. For more than half a century, the state has led the nation in sweetpotato production, shaping both its economy and its culture. In this episode, host Layna…
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Send us a text Take a slow listen to coastal North Carolina. This Shoresides soundscape moves through ordinary places that shape life along the coast — the surf at Wrightsville Beach, a trawler crossing the Intracoastal, a walk through the pines at Carolina Beach, frogs calling from Greenfield Lake, and the background hum of a…
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Send us a text Along North Carolina’s coast, shrimping isn’t just an industry — it’s a living tradition that sustains families, communities, and local economies. This summer, that legacy was tested when a proposed state ban on shrimp trawling — added quietly to an unrelated bill — threatened to halt the practice of dragging nets…
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Send us a text In this episode of Storm Stories, Shoresides sits down with **Joe Friday** — veteran meteorologist and former National Weather Service director — to talk about a growing risk in how we forecast storms. Across the U.S., staffing shortages and cuts to weather-balloon launches are degrading forecast precision exactly when two hurricanes…
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Send us a text In this episode of Shoresides, we sit down with sports-betting expert Steve Bittenbender to unpack what legal mobile sports betting now means for North Carolina. We dive into how apps like FanDuel and DraftKings—and the tax revenue they generate—are reshaping the financial landscape for smaller college programs, including the Seahawks. We…
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Send us a text As more people move to North Carolina’s coast — and winters warm across the region — encounters with alligators are increasing. In this episode, **Shoresides** speaks with **John Henry Harrelson**, district wildlife biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, about the challenges of managing “alligator season,” the rollout of the…
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Send us a text In this episode of Shoresides, we sit down with **North Carolina State Representative Zack Hawkins** during the final hours of critical budget negotiations. Hawkins discusses a controversial federal proposal that would have blocked state-level AI regulation for ten years — and explains why such preemption drew fierce bipartisan criticism. He warns…
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