Archive for author: righttime_admin

By Julie Leibach Coastwatch Starting just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, a vast underground deposit of lithium stretches south for 25 miles. A key component  of rechargeable batteries and energy g...

By Jennifer Fernandez When families are in crisis, foster parents often fill in to provide a safe place for children while parents get their lives together. Traditionally, foster parents were voluntee...

By Will Atwater As extreme heat becomes more common, people on government-paid health plans are more likely than people with private insurance to land in the emergency department with heat‑related ill...

By Taylor Knopf For the third year in a row, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have trended downward. North Carolina had one of the largest year-over-year decreases — a nearly 29 percent drop in overdo...

By Rachel Crumpler For someone leaving a prison or jail, there are countless questions to answer: about health care, housing, work and relationships. Finding the right support is often difficult, espe...

By Jennifer Fernandez Even as one school year is wrapping up, parents of preschoolers should be working on getting their kindergarten students ready for school in the fall. A key recommendation: Sched...