Who’s bidding? North Carolina transportation officials have put four groups on the short list to manage new tolling lanes. Three are European companies: Cintra, S.A., OHL Concessiones and Vinci Concessions. Only one group, identifying itself as Charlotte Access Mobility Group, features Florida-based ACS Infrastructure Development Inc. The bulk of the construction and design work will […]
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U.S. History According to Charles Koch: The conservative billionaire could be teaching your kids
Charles Koch: One of the most polarizing and pivotal men in politics, he’s one half of the billionaire Koch brothers. The sixth-richest person in the world, he co-owns Koch Industries, a multinational conglomerate with key investments in manufacturing and fuels. In 2011, Time magazine ranked him among the most influential people in the world. A […]
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Carrboro aldermen to hear CVS plans Tuesday
Much-discussed plans for a two-story CVS in downtown Carrboro will be back before town leaders Tuesday night. The pharmacy bigbox’s latest plans for a 24,590 square-foot store at the intersection of Greensboro and Weaver streets are likely to draw the usual share of ire from some Carrboro protesters, who argue the store will clog the […]
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Womack and the case of the vanishing blog entries
Some of the most inflammatory entries on N.C. Mining and Energy Commission Chairman Jim Womack’s blog—in which right-wingers posing as long-dead founding fathers take shots at their political enemies—are, as of this writing, down. The posts were among those cited in this week’s story, in which Womack was outed as an author. Those posts included […]
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Fracking chief Jim Womack attacks his enemies from the foxhole of his anonymous blog
“Did you hear? Our benevolent imperial imam Barack Hussein Obama is coming to North Carolina. Hey Governess Perdue, what are you going to be doing Wednesday? Hanging out with your buddy Barack? That should provide a real lift to your re-election campaign! I’ll bet Pat McCrory is just green with envy.” James Madison, from “PBO’s […]
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Republicans delay Perdue’s Board of Education nominations to make way for McCrory
“I can’t remember that.” Rep. James Langdon Jr., the five-term Johnston County Republican who co-chairs the House Education Committee, is trying to recall when the three vacant seats on the State Board of Education came open. After all, it’s his committee that in the next two to three weeks will begin confirming the board nominations […]
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McCrory: To be or not to be moderate
Those troubled by Gov. Pat McCrory’s far-right appointments and statements in recent weeks will find more to wail about in at least one of the governor’s prospective appointments to the N.C. State Board of Education. McCrory’s nominations include former U.S. Congressman Bill Cobey, a Chapel Hill resident who currently sits as vice chairman for the […]
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The outrage over Gov. Pat McCrory’s remarks about liberal arts education
There’s a moment in Gov. Pat McCrory’s chortling interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennettsomewhere between the cracks on Swahili-studying basketball players, the “educational elite” and out-of-touch gender studies studentsin which the state’s newly minted governor sheds his happy-go-lucky image. “Since you’re governor, when you talk, things happen. Don’t they?” asks Bennett. “I learned as […]
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Eve Carson killer to be sentenced again
Former Indy Week writer Matt Saldaña with Eve Carson in 2006 Expect a swift—and angry—response on this one. The N.C. Court of Appeals released its opinion today in the case of Laurence Alvin Lovette, one of two men convicted of killing UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson in 2008. The high-profile murder case was […]
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Marty Rosenbluth: Fighting for the rights of undocumented immigrants
It’s August. Marty Rosenbluth is trying to make leg room in his corner office, which is really a 5-square-foot burrow behind the filing cabinets in the El Centro Hispano office on West Main Street in Durham. His black hair is matted and unkempt. His graying beard needs a razor. And his coffee-stained button-up is splotched […]
