your turn Nuclear Waste Site Expansion Protest, Sunday, April 30: Carolina Power & Light has plans to expand its nuclear-waste capacity at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Apex. Such an expansion would make the plant the nation’s largest high-level nuclear-waste site. Despite many calls for full disclosure on the scientific specifications of the expansion, […]
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Independent Endorsements 2000
If you really want your vote to count, head out to your polling place on Tuesday, May 2. Turnout is guaranteed to be light, thanks to a lackluster spring campaign and to the fact that the presidential nominations were locked up two months ago. But with fewer people taking the trouble to fill in their […]
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That’s Why I’m Working
If you’re still on a high from last week’s documentary film festival in Durham or feel frustrated because you missed it, stop by Exploris on Sunday, April 16, for some global enlightenment. The documentary That’s Why I’m Working deals with the preponderance of child labor in Bangladesh. The small Eastern country is so impoverished, children […]
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In randomness
In our postmodern age the borders between high and low art have been blurred, leaving room for intermeshing of several different mediums–and also making it very difficult to classify exactly what the following events are all about. Yet this creative synergy and experimentation is electric to witness, and you’ll have several chances to broaden your […]
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Your Turn
your turn Pilgrimage for Justice and Peace, Sunday-Friday, April 16-21: The Carolina Interfaith Task Force on Central America, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, and People of Faith Against the Death Penalty are calling for a revival of the Hebrew tradition of Jubilee, an erasure of debts and correction of social imbalances. For a contemporary application […]
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Clean elections II
Less than 1 percent of North Carolinians contribute 90 percent of the money for state campaigns. Since 1995, the N.C. legislature has awarded or extended tax breaks worth more than $700 million a year, which primarily benefit political donors. —from N.C. Voters for Clean Elections. Call (877) 663-3257 or e-mail ncvce@mind spring.com for more information.
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High Fidelity
Everybody knows guys like Rob Gordon. He’s late 20s-early 30s, a little on the sloppy side, and a bit of an underachiever, except when it comes to music. With an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, Rob compartmentalizes life into musical top-five lists, like “Top Five Songs For Letting the Person Who Dumped You Know That […]
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Sean Doyle, Raleigh
Sean Doyle’s poem started out as a “humorous piece based on a bad haircut.” His family had just arrived in North Carolina, and he was trying to make a good impression in his new job. Initially an exercise to assuage his own frustration at the terrible trim, “Designs by Elouise” changed as Doyle delved deeper. […]
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Clean elections I
During the last six years, the cost of winning a seat in the N.C. legislature has tripled. —from N.C. Voters for Clean Elections. Call (877) 663-3257 or e-mail ncvce@mind spring.com for more information.
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In cultural festivals
There’s few things better than getting two things for the price of one, and getting two things for free is close to the top of the list. On March 31, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., anyone who doesn’t have a daytime job can experience Duke’s Springternational Festival, which combines two annual celebrations, Springfest and […]
