Wild Cook’s Indian Grill 3212 Hillsborough St. Raleigh 984-232-8530 wildcooksgrill.com Monday–Saturday 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Dinner Monday–Thursday 5–10 p.m. Friday–Saturday 5–11 p.m. Closed Sunday. India Mahal was a Raleigh institution. In its understated way, the little moldering white building on Hillsborough Street was the front line of the war between old and new Raleigh. Opinions and […]
Aaron Lake Smith
Bio: Aaron Smith is the Raleigh Bureau Chief of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]
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Regulatory Reform bill is a goodie bag for polluters and coastal developers
You’ve probably seen them on your way to the beach: the marshy bogs, micro-ecosystems for frogs, snakes and native coastal fauna, hidden behind the interstate tree line. These are isolated wetlands, and the majority of them are less than an acre in size. And now they are in danger. Last week state Republicans passed an […]
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Charles Duncan to leave Raleigh Public Record
After six years Charles Duncan, the founder of Raleigh Public Record, has decided to move on to greener pastures. Tropical green pastures. Paradise, to be more exact. He’s accepted a job as the investigative special projects coordinator at the Cayman Compass, in the Cayman Islands. Duncan, a Raleigh resident who has commuted to Duke to […]
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Residents at the Velvet Cloak Inn rise up against property owners in legal fight that has ramifications for North Carolina
It’s hard to believe, but the Velvet Cloak Inn was once the most elegant accommodation in Raleigh. A special project of “Willie” York, the patriarch behind York Properties, it was named after the cloak Sir Walter Raleigh laid over a puddle for the Queen. The gothic, New Orleans-style structure with ornate, wrought-iron detailing once hosted […]
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Tillis defunds the Democrats
House Democratic Leader Larry Hall (D-Durham) has been much in the news this week. After a year and a half of trying to be dignified, trying to air their grievances through the proper channels, trying not to appear like ‘sore losers’, House Dems are finally coming out and saying they’re sick of being suppressed by […]
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Trio has Raleigh’s Boulted Bakery on steady path
Boulted Bread 614 W. South St., Raleigh boultedbread.com Wednesday and Friday 4–7 p.m. A bakery, like a secondhand bookstore or woodwinds repair shop, is something you do because you’re drawn to it. The underlying principle is the preservation of spirit, not accumulation of profit. Durham has a panopoly of successful craft bakeriesDaisycakes, Monuts Donuts, Scratch, […]
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Tomorrowland Transit Authority comes to Hillsborough Street
Monorail…Monorail…Monorail! —The Simpsons, “Marge vs. the Monorail” Thanks to Paul Coble, the Tea Party chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, the plan for a comprehensive light rail system in the Triangle is stalled out. Durham and Orange Counties have both put half-cent sales taxes in place to raise funds for the still-ten-years-out system, […]
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Welcome to Raleigh, this way to our “Aboretum”
ABORETUM→[sic] Brand Raleigh. Fastest growing city. New Southern mecca. Austin Jr, Atlanta Jr. Proximity to the Research Triangle Park, highest concentration of PhDs in the country (outside of that other tech corridor in California, of course.) Ranked the number one place to live in the country. Ranked highly for singles. Good middle-class tech jobs and […]
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Americans for Prosperity lobbies lawmakers to expand the voucher program
In the Triangle, we have what you might call policy gangs. On the left, you have the NC Justice Center, the ACLU, NC Policy Watch, Institute for Southern Studies, and the AFL-CIO. On the right you have CIVITAS, Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, and the John Locke Foundation. These two “coalitions” fire off […]
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The GOP wants even more money for vouchers
Marx wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In the mid ’50s, North Carolina lawmakers set up a school voucher program called the Pearsall Plan, which laid the path for white flight into private schools. Although the segregationist statutes were finally repealed in 1969, vouchers, in reverse, have returned to North […]