By Cris Rivera’s reckoning, it took six years of planning to open the Durham Co-Op Market and seven months for it to waver on its supposedly progressive mission. As a 25-year resident of Durham, Rivera, the co-op’s finance director, knows what this type of locally sourced, locally owned grocery means for her city. And that’s […]
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Orange County’s 2016 race for the Board of Commissioners is off to a fast start
And away we go. The race for four seats on the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 2016 is off to a speedy start. Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier announced last week that she won’t be seeking re-election next year after seven years on the board. And now, Mark Marcoplos, a local builder who mounted an unsuccessful […]
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Less than a year in, the Durham Co-op Market stirs up controversy
It didn’t take long for the Durham Co-op Market to find itself some controversy. About seven months after opening, members of the market’s board of directors will consider a vote Sunday to nix the worker-owner shares currently allowed in the co-op’s bylaws. Modeled after Orange County’s Weaver Street Market, the bylaws grant workers the ability […]
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Pelissier bowing out of a re-election campaign in 2016
Because the 2015 municipal elections wrapped on Tuesday, it’s time to start talking about 2016. Orange County Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier wasted no time, announcing Thursday that she would not be seeking re-election next year. “Many of you know that I have been a long-time advocate for agriculture, farmers, and local food,” Pelissier wrote in an […]
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An Orange County group wants to use peer pressure to push a living wage
Eugene Farrar worked eight hours, and then his friend’s water heater burst. He sounds tired. The peril of being handy, it seems, is that your friends expect you to be handy even when you’re off the clock. Since 2010, Farrar has been a custodian for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. He’s a broad-shouldered 72-year-old with a […]
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In Chapel Hill, a big night for the challengers
A bitterly contested race for the mayor’s seat and the Town Council in Chapel Hill, as well as the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education, came to a bitterly close ending Tuesday night. After a campaign marked by a clamor of anti-incumbent fervor, much of it drummed up with a strong push by the […]
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Hillsborough voters side with the status quo
By some people’s reckoning, this race in Hillsborough was about the decaying Colonial Inn and the fate of the “Confederate memorial” lettering on the town’s former whites-only library. Others say it was about whether you support Hillsborough’s current track or you don’t. Either way, the status quo is celebrating tonight in Hillsborough. Incumbent town commissioners […]
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Tillis denies KKK involvement, Anonymous distances itself from yesterday’s dox
We were skeptical. This is why. The multi-headed, faceless hacker group Anonymous continues to distance itself from yesterday’s leak, in which a hacker who bills himself as Amped Attacks dumped a mess of data on a website often used by Anonymous, alleging that a handful of American politicians, including U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, the Republican […]
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Anonymous* claims Sen. Thom Tillis is involved with the Ku Klux Klan
The hacker activist group Anonymous just claimed that U.S. Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from Huntersville and the former speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives, is involved with the Ku Klux Klan. Here is the full listing of political figures that Anonymous claims to be linked to the notorious hate group, which got on […]
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Chapel Hill polling shows the challengers taking over
Chapelboro is reporting a major shift in the polling for this year’s hotly-contested races in Chapel Hill. Read the Indy’s endorsements for these races here. Courtesy of Public Policy Polling, a new survey shows challenger Pam Hemminger has taken the lead over incumbent Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, with Hemminger leading 43 to 37 percent. Second challenger […]