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Yahoo
19-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
North Carolina Senator Ted Budd speaks to FOX8 about recently passed megabill
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Congress had been working around the clock and on weekends to finalize President Trump's megabill that set the parameters for government spending over the next year. A majority of Americans in both parties didn't seem to be happy with the outcome, which isn't uncommon in the political world, in which all 535 members of Congress have a say in what they want. But North Carolina Senator Ted Budd spoke with FOX8's Senior Political Reporter Bob Buckley about his take on the bill, including the claim that Republicans didn't reduce spending enough to get the nation back on a sustainable fiscal track. 'I am all about cutting spending … Let's do it on the essentials that keep this country strong and keep it safe,' Budd said. The case he makes is that the best way to increase government revenues is to grow the economy to bring in more overall tax dollars. 'Let's rein in spending … We need to outgrow this problem, and I think this is step one. It's a step in the right direction … Last night, 3 in the morning, we're voting on rescissions, and that's a step in the right direction … We haven't done this in 30 years or more, but now we took a step in the right direction to rein in spending on things that aren't really representative of what people elected Donald Trump to do,' he said. See more of Buckley's conversation with Budd in this edition of The Buckley Report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
UNCG student teacher spending year in High Point classroom
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — It's sometimes hard to tell what you want to do with your life until you've tried it. Alyssa Olmedo had a good idea of what staying in a classroom beyond being a student might be like. 'I just love history and social studies in general, and it seemed like a cool opportunity to just get to talk about that all the time,' Olmedo said. To complete her education major at UNC Greensboro, Olmedo has to spend a year student teaching. She's doing that year at High Point Central High School. A lot of what she's done during that year hasn't surprised her. 'It has been what I thought it would be, which is challenging, so it's been good,' Olmedo said. 'But I've had a lot of support. Ms. Ranew is wonderful, and she's been really, really helpful … Sometimes, I need her to tell me it's OK … Some days are hard, so that's really helpful.' Kayla Ranew is overseeing Olmedo's time in the classroom. As a veteran teacher, she understands the challenges new teachers face. 'She had to teach two lessons that she filmed and sent back to her professor at UNCG,' Ranew said. 'She's at the football games, did homecoming with me and really got herself involved with the school … Starting second semester, they're all in, so she's planning. She's grading. She's teaching every day.' Ranew understands the value of having young people buy into the profession. She said that UNCG, which is her alma mater, has about half as many education majors as it did when she was there a little more than a decade ago. 'When I was at UNCG, my program for social studies was somewhere between 20 and 30 people, and now her program is less than 10 people,' Ranew said. Meanwhile, Olmedo is learning that teaching in a classroom isn't even the majority of where she'll spend her time and energy. She'll also be doing events and other things that help students get through their day. The team of teachers that HPCHS has developed helps make it all work. 'I never realized until being here all day, every day, how much you really do interact with the other teachers around you and how much of a support system they can be … Sometimes, it really is just nice to have a conversation with other teachers on the hallway about stuff that's going on. I guess I never considered how much of teaching is team-based,' Olmedo said. See more in the latest Saved By the Bell edition of The Buckley Report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
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GTCC lays down the beat
JAMESTOWN, N.C. (WGHP) — A group of college students couldn't be more excited about an album drop, but it's not from Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters or Harry Styles. It's from Guilford Technical Community College. Yep, the students themselves wrote, recorded and are now distributing their first album. Teacher Mark Dillon says it might not be such a surprise if you saw their classrooms. 'You wouldn't believe this is a community college. It's crazy how much facilities we have,' Dillon said. 'Our students recorded all the tracks and then mixed all the tracks.' Ally Young is one of them. She began taking piano lessons when she was five and even considered majoring in musical performance when she went to college. But life took her in other directions until she found the program at GTCC. Now at 32, she's part of the album with a song she wrote called 'Wolf Song.' 'This is something I have dealt with as an adult, and a lot of my female friends have dealt with … I got angry and decided to write a song about it,' Young said. She believes women are often not believed when they say something happened to them. Young not only wrote and sang the song, but she also played keyboards for some of her classmates' songs. Dillon says this is far from a vanity project. 'A lot of them will walk away with studio credits. A lot of them will walk away with recording engineering credits, which is valuable in the field. If you can walk into a studio and say, 'This is what I've done. I have credits. They're listed and everything. I'm available on Spotify and Amazon,' that carries weight out in the field,' Dillon said. 'Students who probably wouldn't work together under different circumstances are now clearly back there hanging out and doing their thing. They're literally back there plotting their next album.' Hear some of the songs in this edition of The Buckley Report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Business
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Western North Carolinians work to get lives back on track after Hurricane Helene
MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Carter Francois looks across a half-rebuilt Alpine Inn and says without bravado: 'I'm kind of proud of myself.' He should be. His entire livelihood washed down a mountain in McDowell County as Hurricane Helene dropped nearly two feet of water on western North Carolina overnight. He had to rebuild it all without any income. 'The numbers for a rebuild, compared to what I paid for this place, are astronomical,' Francois said. 'So I never thought I'd be saying $1,600,000 to put it back … kind of the way it was.' Every day for the last seven months, Francois and his business partner, Steve Carlsen, have done the tedious work of digging out and rebuilding. 'I've been here every day … It seems like a lifetime,' Francois said. 'You wake up and go, 'How the heck am I going to get out of this?'' One way is with the help of caring people. One of them is Chastity Murphy, who is part of a 501c3, which is a registered charitable organization called Carolina Relief Fund. 'Carter's story just really hit me hard, and I wanted to do whatever we could to try to help,' Murphy said. She brought it to the others in the organization, including Joe Russell. Russell points out that doing work as they're doing with Francois is nothing new. 'We've been helping people for about 12 years when houses burn down and with needs at Christmas,' Russell said. Russell, Murphy and their team have met with Francois on multiple occasions to see exactly what he needs. See more on how Carolian Relief Fund is helping Francois recover in this Mountain of Trouble edition of The Buckley Report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Sport
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Despite injury, Triad man competes in ‘Mongol Derby'
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A century or so ago, it wasn't uncommon for a man to spend much of his life on a horse. Today, it's very rare. But then, Fred Berry has always been a little different. Berry is an attorney who grew up in Greensboro and didn't venture far from home for many years, attending Wake Forest University for both his undergraduate and law degrees and has practiced in the Triad since, but he's seen the world in the years since in ways most of us never will and it goes back to his younger days. 'For 35 years, I was the Huntsman for the Sedgefield Hunt Club,' he says, who first started riding when he was about 10 years old. 'And what that means is twice a week, my wife and I would load up a pack of fox hounds and a couple of thoroughbred-type horses and go to the woods and gallop around. And so that gave me the panache, if it were, to be able to ride cross country.' That chance came when he learned about The Mongol Derby, which bills itself as the world's longest and most difficult horse race. 'It's 10 days of racing for about 12 hours a day and you pick a horse randomly off the horse line, and then if the herder can ride it, then you get on it and you ride about 25 miles to the next horse station, then you swap out and do it again and do it again and do it again,' says Berry about how the race is run. But a few weeks before the race, Berry was out riding (and he happened to be on his wife's horse) when the horse bucked him seriously damaging his shoulder, which put him in a very difficult position. 'I was faced with do I go ahead and race with a bum shoulder or do I lay off a year and heal and be able to race fully equipped?' He ran but it was almost impossible to compete in that condition. But, in the end, it was a trip that was worth his time and effort, though it makes a reporter wonder why a guy would travel to the other side of the world for such a difficult challenge. 'It just spoke to me,' he says. 'I've spent a lot of time in the west riding cross country, have been in California riding big, big, open land and being on a horse and being in big country is a nice thing to do for me.' See more of Fred's journey to the Mongol Derby in this edition of The Buckley Report. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
