Frances Ferris has been active in the Campaign to End the Death Penalty at UNC-Chapel Hill almost since the day she arrived on campus two and a half years ago. Almost. She was vaguely pro-death penalty–“out of ignorance”–when she left home in Apex. She changed her mind, however, when campaign members showed her the evidence […]
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Caleb Southern
Caleb Southern used to be a music guy, and a very successful one at that, living the life of the funk glitterati in New York City. He was the producer for the Ben Folds Five, who came out of Chapel Hill on their way to rock ‘n’ roll stardom. Chapel Hill is where Southern started, […]
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See what we saw on Philanthropy Web site
Ever heard of SeeSaw Studio in Durham? Probably not. Looking for a worthy charity that’s teaching design and marketing to inner-city teens? They’re the ones. How might you find them, or any one of hundreds of other nonprofit programs in the Triangle that are pursuing interests you’re interested in supporting? On Philanthropy Central, the new […]
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Follow the Vanishing Vote
Why won’t you vote on Nov. 5? It’s a mid-term election year, and if form holds, about two-thirds of the adults who could vote aren’t going to bother. Even in a presidential election year, only half of us vote. Why? In The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty, Harvard University’s Thomas E. […]
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Family Feud
Listening to Eric Reeves talk about his re-election campaign against Paul Coble, what comes to mind is a wrestler–a wrestler not predisposed to anger, who’s even a little soft-hearted when he’s not in the ring. When Coble, the former Raleigh mayor, announced he’d be the Republican candidate for Reeves’ state Senate seat, “I offered him […]
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All in the Family, Raleigh-style
When he moved to Raleigh in 1988, says Ted Shear, powering up his slide show, the question of what constitutes a family was much on people’s minds, courtesy of Vice President Dan Quayle. The image in dispute then, Shear continues, punching up a slide: TV show character Murphy Brown and her no-dad baby. But in […]
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Invading John Edwards’ office
Civil disobedience can be based on a couple of different notions, Steve Woolford was saying. One is a First Amendment approach, a right to speak out even when the government is telling you to stop. The other is spiritual. You answer to a higher power than government. You follow your conscience. Woolford was following his […]
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Southeast Raleigh: Forming Partnerships
Count James West, the only African-American member of the City Council, as a true believer on the subject of citizen participation. Yes, incomes are low in Southeast Raleigh, the district he represents, and the number of substandard and abandoned housing units is high. But the endemic problem, West thinks, the one that’s in the way […]
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Now let me show you my family values
Cheap shot? You decide. Republican congressional candidate Carolyn Grant, in a press release claiming victory after a recount of GOP primary ballots, went right after her Democratic opponent Brad Miller. Liberal, liberal, liberal, she said, promising to offer “a stark contrast” to Miller’s “liberal ideas,” which are the “liberal ideas espoused by the national Democratic […]
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Hillsborough Street: Coming Around
If you rebuild it, will they come? The Hillsborough Street Partnership says yes: Shape up the street, spruce up the sidewalks, jazz up the lighting and rezone those parking lots for combo stores-apartments-decks, and before long investors will be turning this economically depressed thoroughfare into a classy urban boulevard, repaying the public investment many times […]
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