The legal director of ACLU of North Carolina says the organization is ready to fight HB2 in court. Chris Brook told the INDY on Friday that “we’ll be challenging the LGBT provisions of HB2 in a matter of days, as opposed to weeks. It’s impossible to square this sort of discrimination that the legislature engaged […]
Danny Hooley
Bio: Danny Hooley lives in Durham, writes about television and music and plays in The Bastages.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/dhoohoo
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Nice Price Books in Durham Is Closing, Probably in May (Updated)
Nearly three decades after opening their first Durham location, the owners of Nice Price Books are closing the 811 Broad Street store, operating there since 2001. Co-owner Cindy Kamoroff says the store will not re-open in another location. Instead, she and her husband, Barry Blanchette, are retiring from the used-book-store business they started in 1987 […]
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Carrboro Aldermen Clear Path for IFC Kitchen Downtown
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a text amendment that allows the Inter-Faith Council to apply for conditional zoning to add a community kitchen to a downtown pantry that serves the homeless. “Conditional zoning is a flexible tool that allows you to take an application on an individual basis; allows […]
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Durham County Elections Chief Michael Perry: Do Your Job, Citizens
Responding to reports of numerous voting problems last week, the director of the Durham County Board of Elections respectfully requests that voters take some personal responsibility for knowing when and how to vote. “This process is important,” says Michael Perry. “Put an equal amount of effort into it that you do in filling out your […]
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Ken Spaulding’s New PAC Aims to Ensure Democrats Don’t Take Blacks for Granted
Durham attorney and erstwhile Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ken Spaulding will not go gentle back into private life. Instead, he’s creating a political action committee. His PACas yet unnamedwill coordinate “with African-American newspapers and media, along with local nonpartisan African-American organizations around the state, to provide unity and a unified solid base of support of candidates […]
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The Morning Roundup: N.C. Legislators Return Wednesday for Special Transphobia Session
Good morning, everybody. In today’s Roundup, your friendly Republican state lawmakers listened to their social conservative base, and made a decision regarding Charlotte’s new LGBT protections that surprises absolutely no one.1. Forty-two thousand dollars a day. That’s how much it will cost for the General Assembly to meet for that special session. But the three-fifths […]
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Durham Central Park School Teacher Responds to ‘Daily Caller’ Hit Piece
To take the Daily Caller’s word for it, you’d have to believe that Durham’s Central Park School for Children is preparing students for a Marxist education at Universidad de La Habana. And it’s all because a teacher dared — gasp — to teach first-grade students about Black Lives Matter, and plan a march with them […]
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Avid Video, the Triangle’s Last Independent Video-Rental Store, Finally Turns Out the Lights
Jason Jordan’s store hours aren’t as regular as they used to be. They haven’t been for a while. But that doesn’t mean he’s not working when the sign on the door reads “CLOSED.” At about twelve fifteen on a dreary, cold, and drizzly February day, Jordan walks unhurriedly, leather bag hanging from his right hand, […]
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Attorney: 90 Percent of Durhamites Charged with Resisting Arrest Are Black
Durham-based attorney Scott Holmes can’t help but laugh when the police report is read to him over the phone. After all, the alleged language used by his thirty-four-year-old client, Kevin Love, toward Durham police officer R.A. Ingram was pretty salty. But Holmes is quite certain about one thing: his client was likely charged with “resisting, […]
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Activists Want a Police Oversight Board in Raleigh
On Saturday, an attorney working with Akiel Denkins’s family and the NAACP challenged the Raleigh Police Department’s version of how the twenty-four-year-old man was fatally shot by Officer D.C. Twiddy on Leap Day [“Four Shots on Bragg Street,” March 9]. “What we can say, based on initial review by our forensic pathologist, is that there […]
