No reason to worry about the students who traveled to Chapel Hill a few days ago to protest tuition increases at their respective University of North Carolina campuses. They may be in debt right now, but their assets were also on display as they worked the room at the UNC-CH Alumni Center–the beautifully appointed George […]
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Step Right Up
Running the state fair is really a sideshow for Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps, but still, what a bad act she’s gotten into on the midway. If this were knife- throwing, she’d be bleeding all over Dorton Arena. Here’s why: Phipps is collecting campaign contributions at a furious clip from the carnival companies and concessionaires […]
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Mixed Feelings
Mixed-use development in Raleigh is all the rage, if not the reality, and Exhibit A is Glenwood South. (Perhaps that’s because there s no Exhibit B?) Since I’m there a lot and live three blocks away, I feel a proprietary interest in how it s doing. Some observations: 1. The key to Glenwood South is–you […]
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True Blue
The important thing, Senate candidate Dan Blue says, is sticking with Democratic principles even when the party doesn’t. This should be a winter of discontent for Dan Blue. No ordinary member of the N.C. House of Representatives, Blue is a former speaker with a glittering record. Yet in the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Jesse […]
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Raising the Baton
William Henry Curry, the 47-year-old associate conductor of the North Carolina Symphony, has never doubted his talent with the stick. As a would-be composer, though, he was a bundle of insecurities well into his professional career. He wasn’t formally trained in composition. He had no credentials. Worse, he was way past claiming youth as a […]
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Burning the Midnight Oil
At first, it was a small gathering of folks joined together only by their dislike for a development scheme they dubbed “Coker Towers.” A year later, after a tumultuous struggle, the Coker project was beaten and the group evolved into a fighting force called the Neighborhood Coalition for Responsible Development in Raleigh (NCRDR) that helped […]
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On second thought
I see from the mail that David Horowitz is headed our way again. Our old friends at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh will be his hosts at lunch one day next week, and he’s also due at UNC-Chapel Hill to rehearse his latest screed: “Why Campus Leftists Are a Threat to National Security.” Campus […]
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No Place to Go
The Rev. Ray Buchanan was in Northern Afghanistan last month at a time when American B-52 bombers were still trying to dislodge Taliban troops from the hills near the Northern Alliance headquarters at Khojja Boddin. Buchanan heads a Raleigh-based ministry called Stop Hunger Now, which is based at Fairmont Methodist Church but has its own […]
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All Aboard
Don’t look now, but the Triangle’s three big towns all have Democratic mayors for the next two years. Male Democratic mayors, if you’re keeping score: Charles Meeker in Raleigh, Bill Bell in Durham, Kevin Foy in Chapel Hill. There may well be a future mayor among the handful of women elected to local councils last […]
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Welcome to Raleigh
What’s all this brouhaha in Raleigh about development? That’s just the inside-the-Beltline crowd, right? But if so, why are folks in Harrington Grove–which is as North Raleigh as you can get–so up in arms that some are even campaigning for mayoral challenger Charles Meeker and against the incumbent, Paul Coble? It all came out at […]