- From the Citizen-Times: "City Councilman Brian Haynes was fired from a housing nonprofit with which he and his famous musician brother have long-held ties after Haynes said he protested an anti-marijuana policy and refused to take a drug test."
- WLOS reports: "Asheville police continue to search for a suspect in a shooting outside a nightclub in Downtown Asheville Saturday."
- From HotAir.com: "...a tweet from Houtson Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressing support for democracy in Hong Kong, which in the US would hardly seem notable, let alone objectionable. In China, however, the government turned it into an international incident — and the NBA dribbled all over itself to re-ingratiate themselves to Beijing"
- From The Locker Room: Democratic candidate for NC Supt challenges people disagreeing with her to a fight.
- The Greensboro News & Record: "Most people coming to the state in 2017 were from Florida"
- The Christian Science Monitor reports on the shift in political attitudes in the NC 9th Congressional district: "The conflict among the Lumbees goes to the core of how identity politics plays at the ballot box: whether to be defined or to define oneself. At the crux of that divide in this case: minority voting rights versus rural values around guns, faith, and self-reliance."
- From Fast Company: "Why I hate living in my tiny house."