Charlie Rose, whose Henderson, North Carolina, accent is perceptible every evening on his eponymous PBS interview program (or pro-gruhm, as Rose says), will receive an honorary degree from Duke University this May, the school announced today. “As we celebrate the achievements of our graduates, Duke also has a tradition of conferring a small number of […]
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Durham Police Chief Search Down To 14 Candidates
An update arrived today regarding the Durham Police Department’s search for a new chief to take over Jose Lopez’s old gig. The highlights: *42 candidates applied. *Those candidates have been narrowed to 14. *The remaining candidates will go through telephone interviews and writing exercises over the next few weeks. *Two or three finalists will meet […]
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Love Me Tinder: Dating In a New City in the Age of Apps
I joined Tinder for several reasons, none of which I am proud of. The most justifiable one is that I recently moved to the Triangle from another city and don’t know very many people here. The way I am accustomed to meeting women is through friends and acquaintances, at parties and bars. Lacking a local […]
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The Morning Roundup: Biden’s in Durham, Roy Has Vertigo, Redistricting Headed To the Supreme Court
You already know that Bernie and Trump emerged victorious last night in New Hampshire. Here are some other pieces of information relevant to Wednesday: 1. Joe Biden is in Durham today. He’ll be visiting labs at the Duke Cancer Institute as part of his “cancer moonshot” task force to cure cancer, as announced by President […]
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Durham Cops Don’t Want You to See What Their Body Cams Capture
Body-camera policy is always a tricky balancing act of protecting privacy and holding cops accountable. You want the public to have reasonable access to recordings of most police interactions with the public, but not of things like strip searches or conversations with confidential informants. There’s little disagreement that the Durham Police Department’s current proposaldraft policy […]
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Durham City Council Asks ICE to Back Off Deportation Raids
One could argue, quite convincingly, that federal immigration policy is beyond the scope of Durham’s Human Relations Commission. But the story of nineteen-year-old Riverside High School student Wildin David Guillen Acosta has brought a sense of helplessness. Wildin crossed the U.S. border in 2014, seeking to escape gang violence in Honduras. After attending one immigration […]
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Weird Club for Growth Attack Ad Hits Renee Ellmers for Supporting Big Sheep
Renee Ellmers is getting primaried pretty hard in the GOP race for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district. On one side of Ellmers, Kay Daly is blasting shotguns in the air and calling her a RINO, a feminazi and a child abuser. Now the conservative Club for Growth Action Super PAC is about to spend $400,000 […]
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Duke Adjuncts Take Union Fight to Durham City Council
Contingent faculty at Duke — that is, adjunct and non-tenure-track instructors — have been organizing in support of a union since last year. In January, their cause won the support of the Durham People’s Alliance, the influential local political group. Today, they brought their arguments to the Durham City Council in the form of a […]
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Google Fiber to Offer Free Internet Service to Affordable Housing Units in the Triangle
The digital divide remains a problematic issue in our new century. A new partnership between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Google Fiber, though, may go a little ways toward bridging that gap. Google Fiber, which has been rolling out its superfast Internet connection throughout the Triangle, says it will soon […]
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The Morning Roundup: An Early Spring, an Underwater Theater, and Some Serious-Sounding Weapons in Chatham County
It’s Wednesday. Here are your headlines.1.Don’t mess with me, Pork Chop. Sir Walter Wally, official groundhog of Raleigh, did not see his shadow. Nor did Punxsutawney Phil. An early spring, then. Feels like it already. 2.Full Art of Cool lineup announced. Additions include Anderson .Paak, J*Davey, Tennyson, The Hot at Nights.3.Situation at Carolina Theatre still […]
