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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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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 Although the segregationist statutes were finally repealed in 1969, vouchers, in reverse, have returned to North […]

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