Gov. Pat McCrory promised two members of the Charlotte City Council Sunday that there will be swift and sure consequences if the majority votes to allow people to pee and poo in public restrooms where the Lord hath forbade them by assignment of penis or vagina. The City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on […]
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Third Friday Reception: ‘Durham Under Development’ at Pleiades Gallery
Kim Wheaton, co-founder of Pleiades Gallery in Downtown Durham, told the small group of people in a presentation room at 21C Museum Hotel last week that her gallery’s current exhibit is meant to spur open, honest dialogue about a changing Durham. “We really wanted to elicit reaction from local artists about how they feel about […]
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield to Berger, Moore: GOP Redistricting Plan Violates Voting Rights Act
On Wednesday afternoon, Rep G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.-01) publicly released a letter he’d sent to the N.C. Senate president and House Speaker, blasting the the GOP plan to completely eliminate race as a consideration when complying with a federal court order to redraw congressional district maps. Republicans in the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting included […]
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Parents Lobby for a Cultural Exemption to DPS’s Dress Code
A small group of teen girls decided to wear gelesAfrican head wrapsto The School for Creative Studies in Durham on the first day of Black History Month. It didn’t end well. Actually, it didn’t end at all. The issues that arose that day, when administrators told the girls to take off their geles, will likely […]
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Where Does HKonJ Go From Here?
Walking alongside thousands of HKonJ marchers from Wilmington Street to Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh on Saturday morning, straight into a cruel, subfreezing windwhile cursing myself for not wearing gloves or thermalsI was reminded of a scene from The Godfather: Part II, in which Michael Corleone tells fellow mobster Hyman Roth that he doubts the […]
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The Morning Roundup: Redistricters, Judge Blockers and Bodycam Shockers
Good morning, especially if the words “messy morning commute,” as WRAL meteorologists put it, fill you with that get-up-and-go attitude that gets you through a Tuesday. On the relatively bright side: Rain, not ice, is putting the messy in your morning, so that’s a good thing. In fact, Greg Fishel says ice is history by […]
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UPDATE: N.C. DMV Tucks Tail, Gives Reba Bowser, 86, an ID to Vote
Mass shaming by Facebook users and the media (including the INDY) has forced the N.C. DMV to give eighty-six-year-old Reba Bowser the photo ID she needs to vote in the March primary — and was initially denied. On Friday, contrite officials from the DMV visited Bowser at her home. From Asheville Citizen-Times: Sure, Reba Miller […]
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DPS Board of Education Condemns ICE Raids; Teen’s Sister Makes Tearful Plea at Meeting
The sister of a Honduran teen who was grabbed two weeks ago by ICE agents addressed the Durham Public Schools Board of Education tearfully on Thursday afternoon. “He is going to be deported to Honduras,” she said, “and he will die. Please help us.” The heartbreaking plea was delivered shortly before the board unanimously passed […]
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Duke Faculty Announces Union Election
The following statement was released Thursday afternoon by Faculty Forward of the Service Employees International Union: Non-tenure track faculty at Duke University announced today that they have filed for a union election to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of the national Faculty Forward campaign to raise standards in higher education. Duke […]
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N.C, DMV Admits Screwing Up in Denying ID to Elderly Voter
The commissioner of the NC DMV admits that employees at an Asheville field office made a big mistake turning away 86-year-old Reba Bowser when she tried to get an ID, so that she could vote. As The INDY first reported Wednesday, Bowser was denied because she changed her “maiden name” to the middle when she […]
