Currently, GoTriangles’s #405 commuter bus runs to and from Durham Station and UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. Come August, though, that baby will run further west, into Carrboro. “We’re pleased to extend service to Carrboro, giving passengers a one seat ride to and from Durham,” GoTriangle general manager Jeff Mann says in a release. “Carrboro […]
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Durham’s Got a Lot of Rabies Cases Lately
I don’t mean to alarm you, but there was a wild, rabid fox roaming around Durham last weekend, biting people (and dogs) and giving them rabies. The fox is now dead. But, as the Durham County Sheriff’s Office notes, there were three confirmed cases of rabies in Durham during the month of May. On May […]
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The Morning Roundup: You Might Be Paying More for Health Insurance Soon
It’s Wednesday, a historically average day of the week. News for you: 1. Federal appeals court upholds ruling in favor of transgender teen. In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals found that Title IX protects the rights of individuals like Gavin Grimm, a sixteen-year-old transgender student who sued the Gloucester County School Board over its […]
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Margaret Spellings Appoints Another GOP Hack to a High-Ranking UNC Position
A few weeks ago, new UNC president Margaret Spellings appointed her first partisan hack to a leadership position in the school system: Cecil Staton, who, as a Republican member of the Georgia Senate, introduced voter ID laws and pushed for police crackdowns on immigrants. Staton will be paid $520,000 as the new chancellor of Eastern […]
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How a Little Jewish Day School in Durham Became Embroiled in an International Controversy
On October 7, the ultraconservative website Frontpage Mag published an unusual article titled “BDS Infests a Jewish Day School.” FPM typically aims its outrage at national and international issues (recent headlines include “Pope Francis’ Jihad on Christianity” and “Why the Left Loathes Western Civilization”). But this piece had a much smaller target: the Lerner School, […]
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Margaret Spellings Installs AEI Conservative as UNC Senior Vice President
So it begins: Yesterday, new UNC president Margaret Spellings announced the appointment of Andrew Kelly to a newly created position called “senior vice president for strategy and policy.” The school will pay him $245,000 a year. A UNC release notes that Kelly was a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute from 2002-2005, and returned […]
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The Morning Roundup: Mostly Bad News
Let’s just get it over with. 1. Black pastors rally together in support of HB 2. You read that right. Yesterday, a whole bunch of preachers, mostly black, gathered in Raleigh to express outrage about the fight over HB 2 being compared to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. Christ. The N&Oexplains: The idea […]
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Durham Finds No Wrongdoing in La’Vante Biggs’s Suicide-by-Cop
Moogfesters ambling along Mangum Street on Saturday afternoon might have noticed a small cluster of bodies outside Durham City Hall. They weren’t watching an impromptu synthesizer performance or listening to a talk about the future of cyborgs. Instead, they were there to hear Shanika Biggs speak. Biggs’s twenty-one-year-old son, La’Vante, was killed by Durham police […]
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A Wet Weekend in the Young Heart of the Old Confederacy
It rained for the better part of the two and a half hours it took to get from Durham to Richmond. It continued to pour on me after I had dumped off my stuff at the Airbnba fifteen-hundred-square-foot loft, all to myself, on Broad Street between Virginia Commonwealth University and downtown; $90 a night; a […]
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What’s in Store for Bicycling in Durham? A Quick Chat with Bryan Poole, Bicycle and Pedestrian Planner for the City
The City of Durham is in the process of updating its bicycle and pedestrian plan. That means right now is a good time to formally complain about the lack of sidewalks in your neighborhood or the lack of bike lanes on your route to work. There are a couple ways to do this. One is […]
