In the center of Raleigh, there’s a revolutionary band at work. They’re determined to bring the old downtown to life. Make it a place people want to come to, walk around in, shop in, be in. Even live in. Not just a place you drive into–and out of–to punch a clock. One place? No, they’ll […]
Bob Geary
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Downtown away from town
The latest applicant to become a Planned Development District (PDD) is Colonial Properties Trust. Its the real estate company out of Alabama thats taken an option from N.C. State University to buy the 179-acre tract west of the RBC Center on the Wade Avenue extension. The pricetag: $14.5 million. The land is zoned for agricultural […]
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Citizen
Spring wasn’t the only thing peeking out under clear blue skies this week. As the poet said: All sorts of flowers, the which on earth do spring/In goodly colours gloriously arrayed1/Would bare their utmost for peace to bring/And thence o’er in Chapel Hill parade.2 (See below.) “War is the antithesis of all life,” these Naked […]
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Citizen
“Most in N.C. favor war,” the headline on the lead story in The News & Observer declared Friday. Really? No, not really. In fact, not at all. The N&O‘s assertion that “North Carolinians continue to show strong and unconditional support for war with Iraq” was flat wrong and an object lesson in how to mess […]
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“I feel scared for the future of the country”
Patricia Garrett-Peters, 38, of Durham, a child development researcher at the Center for Developmental Science at UNC-CH. We’ve begun to question our government a lot more, especially since 9/11. I think a lot of things have come to light. We’ve become a lot more active in finding out the motives for other people’s hatred of […]
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How can you help stop the war
The goal: 10,000 people at the state Capitol in Raleigh this Saturday, April 15, to protest the impending invasion of Iraq. The objective: “Make their jaws drop,” is how rally organizer Stan Goff puts it. “We need to put up the biggest thing this state has ever seen,” Goff said in a message posted to […]
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Our Dear Leader
We’re going to press just as President Bush is starting his State of the Union address. We hope he said the United States should be a world leader. Or even THE world leader, if that means we want to be the model for others. Maybe he said something like: My fellow Americans. Leadership in a […]
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The Future’s Bright
Architect Alicia Ravetto is an optimist when it comes to energy-efficient building designs and the use of solar heating and daylighting in our homes and offices. She points to North Carolina’s generous tax credits for solar systems, considered the best in the country by the experts. State law requires that public buildings be designed with […]
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Defuse Our Warheads
Who’s got the best antiwar sign so far? How about the one some friends of ours spotted in Washington over the weekend, featuring George W., Donald Rumsfeld and the words: “Two More Empty Warheads Found.” In Durham, where an antiwar march around Brightleaf Square Saturday attracted more than 1,000 protesters, “War Is So Out” was […]
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Truth in zoning
If you’ve read the Indy‘s Peter Eichenberger (“The Knock on the Door,” Jan. 8), you understand the proposal before the Raleigh City Council that would limit the number of unrelated tenants on a lease to be an attack on poor folks. On the other hand, you may have read a less-agitated article of mine (“All […]