LaToya Evans. Photo:Brandon Grate for the LEPR Agency
🏅 LEPR Agency founder LaToya Evans will be inducted into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame tomorrow. (UNC)
🍦 Seemingly Overzealous, the popular gluten-, dairy-, and egg-free ice cream shop, is expanding to Dilworth. (Axios)
🍫 MrBeast — the YouTube star from Greenville, N.C. — has become one of the first major entertainment figures to speak out about President Trump's tariff spikes. (The Hollywood Reporter)
"Ironically, because of all the new tariffs, it is now way cheaper to make our chocolate bars we sell globally, NOT in America, because other countries don't have a 20%+ tariff on our cogs...I feel for small businesses, though. Could really be a nail in the coffin for them."
— Mr. Beast
🗣The Mecklenburg County ABC Board is mandating that all ABC stores be stocked with Narcan, which is used to reverse opioid overdoses. (Queen City News)
🪧 A new anti-tariff billboard spotted in Charlotte and other parts of the country was paid for by Canada. (WCNC)
✍️ An Elon University professor presented to the Wake County School Board yesterday a report that found year-round schools don't improve test scores. (WRAL)
