Good morning. Let’s get right to it. 1. Republican leaders have come to an agreement on the state budget. From WNCN: Budget-writer Rep. Nelson Dollar says average pay raises for teachers will be 4.7 percent, with the increases weighted toward mid-career and veteran instructors. Rank-and-file workers would get at least 1.5 percent raises and small […]
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Durham Shelters Move Away from the Old Services Model
Gwendolyn Jones can’t wait to get out of the Urban Ministries of Durham homeless shelter. “I was in that bed over there for a long time,” Jones says, pointing to one of two thin cots along the twelve-by-sixteen room in the downtown shelter’s female wing. The room doubles as a kitchen and a place for […]
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The Morning Roundup: Senate Deadlock on Guns Continues, Perhaps for Eternity
Happy Tuesday, everybody. This just in: the U.S. Senate still sucks.1. That moment you know you’re going to Hell when you die. Many Senate Republicans already experienced this epiphany when they endorsed Donald for president, of course. And some in particular are so bigoted and hateful that they seem to have sold their souls for […]
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Civil Rights Icon Ann Atwater, July 1, 1935 – June 20, 2016
On Monday morning, Durham learned the sad news that legendary civil rights activist Ann Atwater had died at the age of eighty. Her lasting legacy includes her longtime work with the poverty-fighting Operation Breakthrough. Born in Hallsboro, N.C. in 1935, Atwater came to Durham as a married teenager. She witnessed and experienced, poverty and discrimination […]
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N.C. Republican Delegates Would Pay a Price, Literally, to Dump Trump
So it seems a bunch of Republican Never-Trumpers — like, a thousand — got on a conference call Sunday night to plan a strategy for untethering themselves, as delegates, from ol’ Fuckface Von Clownstick.From ABC News: Organizers say more than 1,000 people, including GOP delegates, alternates and other supporters, dialed in for a conference call […]
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IFC Chooses Downtown Carrboro for FoodFirst Assistance Program
The twenty-one-member board of Inter-Faith Council for Social Service voted unanimously on Wednesday night to proceed with IFC’s original plan to build a three-story building for a centralized food assistance program at 110 West Main Street in Carrboro. By doing so, the board rejected the only other site chosen as a finalist by a search […]
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How to Buy an Assault Rifle in North Carolina
In North Carolina, purchasing a high-powered AR-15-style assault rifle—the kind used to mow down forty-nine people in Orlando early Sunday morning—can be done quickly and easily, and with very little government hassle. If you prefer to buy from fellow gun enthusiasts, head to ARMSLIST.com, which is like Craigslist for the gun fancier. Right now, there’s […]
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Venerable LGBTQ Institution Legends Turns 25 Amid Tragedy
Matt Cozzi, the thirty-four-year-old general manager of Legends Nightclub Complex, is the public face of the mostly original group that runs the venerable LGBTQ bar in Raleigh. On Friday night, Legends (330 West Hargett Street) celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with, of course, a party. But there will be a somber moment of silence for the […]
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Inter-Faith Council Director Explains Why a Jones Ferry Site is a Real Contender for FoodFirst
The board of directors for Inter-Faith Council for Social Service will choose Wednesday between building a three-story building to feed hungry low-income people in Downtown Carrboro, or moving it away — but not too far away — from downtown businesses, at 303 Jones Ferry Road. There’s a very good chance the Jones Ferry site will […]
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The Morning Roundup: The Way of the Gun
Yesterday was a horribly, horribly sad day for the United States. How many times have we said that over the past several years? How many more times will we repeat it? How many more times are we going to mean it even more than we did last time, just because the death toll is higher? […]
