Maybe you’re an N.C. Central student with a friend at State you want to visit. Maybe you’re a UNC student who hates walking from your dorm to class on the other side of campus. Maybe you’re at Meredith and just need a change of scenery. Chances are, you don’t have a car on campus, especially […]
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Ten City of Durham Workers Were Exposed to Arsenic. They Say the City Is Trying to Sweep It Under the Rug.
Ten city of Durham employees were exposed to arsenic while repairing a water main in early June, with one worker’s hair arsenic concentration levels reaching over six times what is considered safe. According to emails reviewed by the INDY, they’d been ordered to work at a vacant property near 2700 Angier Avenue despite the fact […]
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In the Triad, Our Writer Contemplates Furniture, Civil Rights, and Beer He’s Not Allowed to Drink
Unlike many cheerful people in suits and fancy hats last Tuesday, I rode the 6:30 a.m. Piedmont-bound train as a way of actually getting somewhere. Sure, it was fun to realize that I was on board the first train to ever leave Raleigh’s brand-new Union Station, but it was also hard not to laugh at […]
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Big Pork Rallies as the General Assembly Protects Chinese-Owned Smithfield Foods From Nuisance Lawsuits
On Monday afternoon, hundreds of farmers, their families, and employees of Smithfield Foods gathered at Bicentennial Mall in Raleigh to show support for the Republican legislature’s annual Farm Bill. The so-called Rally for Agriculture, which featured Lieutenant Governor Dan Forrest, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, and bill sponsor Senator Brent Jackson—a farmer with his history of […]
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Hundreds of Liverpool FC Fans Crammed Into a Raleigh Bar to Watch a Soccer Match Five Thousand Miles Away. To Make It to MLS, North Carolina FC Needs That Kind of Devotion
Casey Peterson’s job was to sing. We’ve conquered all of Europe. We’re never going to stop. The Cary native looked around at the seventy others singing alongside him, maneuvering down Hargett Street in Raleigh past Saturday-morning shoppers and families who probably wouldn’t like the next lyric. From Paris down to Turkey, we’ve won the fucking […]
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The NCGA Wants to Give Hog Farms Carte Blanche to Spray Pig Crap Wherever They Want, Neighbors Be Damned
Last month, a federal judge ordered Smithfield Foods subsidiary Murphy-Brown to pay $3.25 million in damages following a nuisance suit regarding its use of open cesspools in hog waste disposal. This verdict was itself something of a break for Smithfield, a multibillion-dollar Chinese conglomerate. The jury had originally awarded the ten plaintiffs in this case, […]
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Kids Keep Dying, Politicians Keep Dithering: Notes from Tuesday’s NC Town Hall for School Safety
Greear Webb is tired of feeling unsafe at school. On Tuesday evening, the Sanderson High School junior recounted the “intense fear” he felt during the school’s May 14 lockdown to a crowd of seven hundred gathered inside the Raleigh school’s auditorium for a town hall on school safety. “As I was writing this speech,” Webb […]
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Pearl Berlin, North Carolina LGBTQ Icon, Dies at the Age of Ninety-Two
Pearl Berlin woke up Lennie Gerber every morning for fifty years with “a kiss and a little schmooze.” In 2013, she added two simple words to this morning ritual: “We’re married.” It took over a year for the State of North Carolina to recognize those words as legally true. Berlin, whose fight for marriage equality […]