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[ ![Trust](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/nikki_bascome/2025/April/Board%20of%20Ed%20Disappointments/Trust-intro.png) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/nikki-bascome/new-hanover-county-schools-disappointments)

It no longer seems like you trust the staff of your schools. They want enhanced security through AI. They told you as much. But you chose to not listen. Why?

  01 April 2025

 

 

 

 

[ ![True Patriot](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/opinions/2025/January/truepatiots/Patriot-intro.png) ](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/nikki-bascome/true-patriots)

Have you heard the phrase “true patriot”? Here lately it seems to be thrown around like confetti on a princess birthday cake by Republicans trying to make a point or prove their superiority over one another.

  29 January 2025