Good morning, y’all. Here is some news. 1. Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination last night. He won Indiana, and Cruz dropped out of the race. Reince Priebus called Trump “the presumptive GOP nominee.” Well—here we go. This is about to get really real. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic primary in Indiana. […]
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Durham Is Totally Fine with Its New Top Cop’s Past
Incoming Durham police chief Cerelyn Davis held her first Bull City press conference Monday morning, and she was about as specific as a Bill Belichick post-game interview. Swap “one game at a time” for “establish strong community-police relations,” and you get the picture. If you trained your ears, however, there were some faint notes of […]
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Cerelyn Speaks: The New Durham Police Chief’s First Press Conference
Incoming Durham police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis held her first Bull City press conference Monday morning. It contained about as much specifics as a Bill Belichick post-game press conference. Swap “one game at a time” for “establish strong community-police relations” and you get the picture. If you trained your ears, there were some faint notes […]
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The Morning Roundup: Buck Newton Gets His George Wallace On
It is Wednesday, April 27. Here are some things to know on this #blessed day. 1. Trump, Clinton clean up in the Northeast. On the Democratic side, Clinton won four of five states—Sanders got Rhode Island—and further extended her delegate lead. Donald Trump ran the table on the Republican side, winning all five states up […]
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These Guys Discovered One Weird Trick for Building a Clickbait Empire
Four years ago, Chris Kolmar and Nick Johnson were working in the Bay Area for Movoto, an online real estate brokerage that matches buyers with agents. Kolmar, a twenty-nine-year-old computer geek with a brain for algorithms, was Movoto’s director of marketing. Johnson, thirty-nine, an affable former sports reporter, handled media outreach. Their directive was to […]
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The Orange County Living Wage Project’s $526K Victory
Let’s be real: the federal minimum wage$7.25 an houris laughable. To make matters worse, North Carolina prohibits local governments from setting their own wage floors. So in the more progressive parts of the stateDurham, Asheville, and, most recently, Orange Countyliving-wage campaigns have formed to certify businesses that don’t pay their employees like shit. The Orange […]
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Update: Cerelyn Davis Will Be the Next Durham Police Chief
WSOC in Charlotte is reporting that Mike Smathers was not offered the job of Durham police chief. Smathers, a major in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, was one of two finalists for the position, vacated last year by Jose Lopez. The other candidate is Cerelyn Davis, the deputy chief in the Atlanta Police Department. Presuming she […]
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Duke University Calls for Legalization of Third-Party Energy Sales in N.C.
North Carolina is one of only five states with a law on the books that specifically prohibits third-party energy sales. This presents a problem for property owners who wish to buy renewable energy for their homes. Elsewhere, you could pay a solar provider to build a solar system on your property, lease the system from […]
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The Morning Roundup: TFW Federal Judges Poke a Big Hole in Your Discriminatory Law
Hello again. Let’s get down to business. 1. Clinton, Trump win New York primaries. Trump got more than half of the vote, and will take home at least eighty-nine of the state’s ninety-five delegates, and possibly more. John Kasich won one district—the one Trump lives in—and picked up two delegates. Ted Cruz, who has previously […]
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Orange County Goes a Little Easier on Juvenile Delinquents
Sorry, delinquents: North Carolina is the worst place in the country to be arrested as a teenager. A draconian state law dictates that sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds picked up for minor misdemeanorslittering, possession of a small amount of marijuana, etc.are treated like adults in the criminal justice system. Every year, thousands of North Carolina teenagers start […]
