Among other things, the events on Bragg Street last week brought to light that Raleigh is only now beginning to grapple with how to implement a body-camera policy for its police force. Meanwhile, Durham’s been trying to push through a body-cam policy for a year now, and it still hasn’t even ordered the damn cameras. […]
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Christian Laettner Sued His Own Business for $10 Million. Now Some Former Partners Are Suing Him.
Former Duke basketball star Christian Laettner was so reviled that the ESPN documentary about him, released last year, is literally called I Hate Christian Laettner. Somewhat paradoxically, in examining five specific qualities that made him so hateablewhite, privileged, handsome, a bully, one of the greatest college basketball players of all timethe film ultimately succeeds in […]
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A Plea to Prioritize Sustainability in Durham Schools—from One of Its Students
Senith Berhane, an eleventh-grade student at Riverside High School, in Durham, says she became interested in environmental issues after viewing An Inconvenient Truth a few years ago. “I legitimately could not sleep at night,” Berhane tells the INDY. “I realized, around the world and within my community, how rapid and extensive climate change was negatively […]
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Pat McCrory to Unironically Host Dinner for Durham’s Homeless
Prior to the Carolina Panthers’ Super Bowl loss to the Denver Broncos last month, N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made one of those media-friendly “bets” where the loser has to wear the other team’s jersey and send over a case of Omaha Steaks or whatever. The Panthers, and McCrory, lost. As […]
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The ASPCA Joins the Ag-Gag Lawsuit
Spotlight won Best Picture. Hooray for journalism! Meanwhile, in North Carolina, we’re two months into a new law that targets investigative journalists and whistleblowers. It’s called the Property Protection Act, and it’s arguably the most cowardly piece of legislation yet foisted upon the state by North Carolina’s bought-and-paid-for legislature. This is a bill so bad […]
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Bernie Sanders Campaign Office Opens in Downtown Durham
The rather thorough clobbering Bernie Sanders received in South Carolina on Saturday may well be the beginning of the end of the Vermont senator’s inspiring rise from long-shot presidential candidate to “guy Hillary Clinton is legit afraid of stealing the Democratic nomination.” The grim news from South Carolina made for some awkward timing as Sanders’ […]
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Live: Scharpling and Wurster (And the Chuck Garrison Superchunk lineup!) at Motorco
Scharpling & Wurster Motorco, Durham Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016 A few minutes after taking the stage Saturday night at a sold-out Motorco, Jon Wurster bailed. He told co-host Tom Scharpling that he was dissatisfied with his allotment of applause time. Wurster said he wanted to soak in applause comparable to what Bill Clinton gets in […]
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The Morning Roundup: We love the poorly educated!
And away we go. 1. Trump wins the Nevada caucus. That’s three states in a row for Trump. In his victory speech, Trump said: “We won the evangelicals,” he said. “We won with young. With won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.” Sometimes, one […]
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Durham Debates Whether an Affordable Housing Compromise Is Good Enough
That old gambler’s quandarytake your winnings and go home, or keep on pressing your luckarose before the Durham City Council last Monday. Wood Partners, a development group, wants twenty acres of land near the intersection of Interstate 40 and N.C. 54 rezoned so that it can build about six hundred apartment units and some office […]
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Here Are Our Picks for Orange County’s New Slogan
Heading west on Interstate 40, where Durham County yields to Orange, there’s a road sign that says, “Welcome to Orange County: You’ll Be a Fan for Life.” The sign’s beat up and damaged, and Orange County is in the process of replacing it. The county also figured this might be a good time to update […]
