Deby Schneider is the lucky recipient of something known as a CAP slot from the state. It entitles her to a trained assistant, for about 20 hours a week, to help with her son. Because she has it, she can keep her job as a medical researcher with Quintiles Inc. in Research Triangle Park. Lose […]
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Shaky in Wake
Recent meetings of NAMI’s Wake County chapter have been nervous ones. The members are mostly parents of mental health consumers. They can recite the sad litany of budget cuts throughout former Gov. Jim Hunt’s 16 years in office, so what Gov. Easley’s threatening isn’t new, just disheartening. But if the state closes Dix, it will […]
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Divided Minds
Editor’s Note: On one side, politicians refusing to increase taxes. On the other, North Carolinians needing health care, housing assistance, educational programs and other social services that will be cut back severely unless taxes are raised. That’s the lineup come Tuesday, May 28 when the General Assembly, facing an enormous shortfall in revenues from the […]
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The right kind of crazy
Is it crazy? Every month for 20 years–since May 1982–this little band of naysayers? visionaries? has gathered on the Fayetteville Mall in Raleigh to protest the enormity of U.S. military spending. Cy King mentioned that when he accepted North Carolina Peace Action’s first “Peacemaker Award” recently. He’d asked his friend Slater Newman why they kept […]
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Neighborhood Next
You know the old saying about what counts in real estate. The top three factors are location, location, location. Oh, and the house itself. Do you just love the house? Then you’ll be willing to pay a price to live in it, as opposed to those crass souls who want the house to pay them. […]
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Celluloid, cell phones
It’s a sign of the times, I suppose, that when I wax nostalgic about the old-timey movie theaters in Raleigh, it’s not the old Ambassador Theater I’m thinking of, nor the Capitol Theater neither. They were grand cinemas in their day, but they were long gone from downtown by the time I got here. No, […]
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The Breakdown
(1) Duke & VA Hospitals: TTA and Duke are still dickering over where to put the station. TTA expects this to be its biggest destination stop because 20,000 people work nearby. What’s needed: Duke to buy “eco-passes” so its employees can ride to work for free. (2-3-4) Downtown Durham: The station at Main Street near […]
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Miller time
It’s North Carolina State against Virginia in the ACC Tournament. Archie Miller puts up a long 3. Swish. On TV, Billy Packer is distraught. Why is Virginia giving Miller room to shoot? he cries. Miller can’t do anything but shoot. So Virginia should keep a man right on him. True? Next time down, Miller’s forced […]
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Basic Training
Pencil this date in your day-timer: 2008 is when the Triangle Transit Authority will shoot the first passenger trains onto its new, Durham-to-Raleigh railroad tracks, inaugurating the region’s commuter rail service. Go ahead and erase any other, earlier dates you may have been given. This date, too, might slip a bit, but there really isn’t […]
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Mr. Mouth
Jesse Helms is ashamed about something? Lawd almighty, maybe there is hope for us all. Well, as long as he’s apologizing for the way he blew off the AIDS epidemic, maybe he’ll also stop and think about his environmental record. (In 2001, he “laid a goose egg for the sixth year in a row” the […]