In an ordinary election year, we would no longer care about John Kasich’s opinions on the issues of the day. The Ohio governor has only finished first in one primary state—the one where he lives—and has one-fifth as many delegates as the Republican frontrunner (Donald Trump) and one-third as many delegates as the guy in […]
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The Morning Roundup: The HB 2 Meltdown Continues
Good morning, everyone. It is Wednesday. 1. Sanders, Cruz take Wisconsin. There was a primary yesterday in Wisconsin. The Badger State, they call it. Anyway, Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton, 56 to 43. Sanders picked up 45 delegates to Clinton’s 31. Sanders has now won seven of the last eight contests on the Democratic side. […]
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The Occupation of Duke’s Allen Building Lives On
Nearly two years ago, Tallman Trask III, executive vice president at Duke University, struck (at a low rate of speed) a female parking attendant with his Porsche before a football game. Trask, you’ll be shocked to learn, is old and white. The parking attendant, Shelvia Underwood, is young and black. That incident probably wouldn’t merit […]
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Hey Durham, Meet Your Next Police Chief
Hopes are high that whoever is chosen to succeed former Durham police chief Jose Lopez, who was ousted last year amid mounting complaints about his leadership, will be up to the challenge. The list of issues the new chief will need to swiftly address is long: a culture of racial profiling, rising violent crime, and […]
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Trump Contributions on the Rise in North Carolina. Also, Who Are These People?
Last week, Donald Trump said he thinks abortions should be illegal and women should be punished for having them. The week before, he took a shot at Ted Cruz’s wife based on her looks. Previously, he has said that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. He also wants to build a […]
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Fullsteam Brewery to Withdraw from State Promotional Programs over HB 2
An astounding, reassuring number of companies, both local and global, have spoken out in opposition to HB 2. As of today, Durham’s Fullsteam Brewery has joined those ranks and even gone a step beyond denouncing the discriminatory law. Fullsteam is a distinctly local operation; about 40 percent of its ingredients, from persimmon to honey to […]
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In a Georgia Jail with Wildin Acosta
It was one of those rooms you see in the movies: dully lit, white concrete walls, a phone hanging next to a window. I expected to see Wildin David Guillen Acosta seated on the other side of the window, wearing an orange jumpsuit. Instead, he was standing before me, on my side of the window, […]
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The Morning Roundup: This Bathroom Bill Is Much Worse Than We All Thought
A few bullet points as you begin your day:1. There were some primaries out west yesterday. On the Republican side, Trump took Arizona and Cruz won Utah. On the Democratic side, Clinton took Arizona. Sanders won Utah and Idaho (Idaho Republicans caucused earlier this month; Cruz won there.) Number are here. After yesterday’s attacks in […]
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A 2013 Durham Jail Suicide Was Likely Preventable
Only 20 percent of U.S. jails reported a death in 2013, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The Durham County Detention Center was one of them. On March 14, 2013, Terry Demetrius Lee, a twenty-nine-year-old arrested for firing a gun in a hotel room, tied a bed sheet to the bars on his cell […]
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Inconvenient Truths: Gasland Director Josh Fox Says It May Be Too Late for Planet Earth
How to Let Go Of the World … Tuesday, March 29, 7–10 p.m., NCSU Talley Student Center-State Ballroom Auditorium, Raleigh. Environmentalists lose a lot. But Josh Fox’s 2010 documentary Gasland, which examined the dangers of the natural-gas drilling technique known as fracking, was a winner. In addition to a host of awards, Fox won the […]
