Here’s one for the “oh puhleeeeze” file: Despite a negative opinion from the state Attorney General’s Office, Currituck County officials say they are going ahead with plans to fine the new nonprofit owners of a landmark lighthouse $100 per day for failing to follow local zoning rules. “The ordinance is in place and it is […]
Barbara Solow
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The paradox lives
The phenomenon known as “The Mexican Paradox” because it registers most strongly among immigrant Mexican women, is one that health researchers have known about for decades but is still news to many health-care providers. (See “The Mexican Paradox,” The Independent, Jan. 22, 2003, indyweek.com/durham/2003-01-22/cover.html ). A new state study on health disparities found Latinas in […]
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Health disparities
Here’s what some other community health providers in the Triangle had to say about the study’s findings: Moses Carey, Piedmont Health Systems, Orange, Chatham, Alamance and Caswell counties: “We will probably see a widening of disparities because of the direction the health care field is going. More and more people are having difficulty getting access […]
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Mother’s Day with Madeleine
It’s mid-afternoon on a steamy Mother’s Day and I’m downstairs at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, waiting for a glimpse of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Albright, the highest-ranking woman in American governmental history, will not be speaking–a disappointment to many in the throng. (“I guess she did that already at Quail Ridge and […]
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Closing the gap
A report released last week on persistent health gaps for racial and ethnic groups in North Carolina was long on description and short on prescription. The report–the second such study in four years by the state offices of Health Statistics and Minority Health and Health Disparities–showed that, overall, racial minorities have generally poorer health than […]
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Can the hand that rocks the cradle, rock the vote?
NASCAR Dads and Deaniacs, move over! A new study by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsive Politics shows another political niche group has arrived on the scene. An analysis by the center of contributions to presidential candidates of more than $200 shows roughly one-third of the campaign money George Bush raised through February came from […]
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More fighting over Currituck lighthouse
John Wilson, founder of the Outer Banks Conservationists, was in Boston last week at a preservation conference, extolling the virtues of nonprofit ownership of historic landmarks. Wilson knows a lot about the subject. Last fall, his group was awarded the deed to the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, a historic beacon that OBC has spent millions of […]
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A book by a local anti-war activist won’t be discussed on WUNC-TV’s Bookwatch
Here’s a story you won’t see on local public television: why the Cary author of a book about 9-11 was taken out of the lineup for the station’s book show. David Potorti, author of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning our Grief into Action for Peace, had been asked by a producer to appear […]
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Academia under siege
For weeks, the 33 students in Elyse Crystall’s “Literature and Cultural Diversity” class at UNC-Chapel Hill had been tackling sticky issues like racism, sexism and various forms of privilege. Discussions were lively and respectful, students recall, even when they touched on emotional subjects. On this particular day in February, talk turned to why some straight […]
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Peers are focus of popular teen sex-ed
Stephen Arthur describes himself in typical 16-year-old fashion: He’s shy about speaking in groups or in front of people he doesn’t know well. And yet, here he is, talking with a reporter about sexually transmitted diseases, contraception and body image–while his mom is in the room, no less. Over the past three months, the East […]
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