Recent community meetings have explored what Durham citizens seek in a replacement for ousted police chief Jose Lopez. Most agree it would be a nice change of pace to have a leader who doesn’t double down when faced with criticism; who confronts racial profiling within the ranks; and who can maybe do something about the […]
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DEQ unveils coal-ash risk classifications; environmentalist groups say they’re watered down
Today, on the dumpiest news-dump day of the year, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality released its draft classifying the risk levels of coal-ash sites in North Carolina. Environmental groups generally agree: It is weak as hell. The DEQ was required to rank 14 of Duke Energy’s sites across N.C. Those deemed “high” risk […]
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Does Ann Coulter have a crush on Pat McCrory?
Ann Coulter’s Twitter feed is a shit-stream of right-wing commentary so intentionally “outrageous” that it somehow ends up being boring. Nobody knows if she believes half of the lowest-common-denominator jingoistic horse-shit that slimes out of her mouth and fingers, and, increasingly, nobody cares. Unless you enjoy being trolled, we cannot recommend joining the ranks of […]
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A new tool to track police-stop data across North Carolina
In 1999, North Carolina became the first state in the country to pass a law requiring police officers to submit specific data about every traffic stop made. The statute requires the reporting of 45 different data points, including date and time; officer ID number; age, race, gender of the motorist; whether there was a search […]
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The search for Durham’s next police chief gets off to a rocky start
Given the Durham Police Department’s scandal-plagued recent history—accusations of racial profiling, the mysterious shooting of a teenager in the back of a squad car, the forced resignation of Police Chief Jose Lopez in September—you’d think the first public forum seeking input on Lopez’s replacement would be teeming with fire-breathing protesters. Nope. Instead, about 30-odd citizens—a […]
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PPP director Tom Jensen dishes on this weird election cycle
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ran a four-minute bit last month highlighting a recent poll that found a sharp division over President Obama’s decision to pardon not one but two turkeys for Thanksgiving. Just 11 percent of Republicans were on board. The organization responsible for that poll was, of course, Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling. […]
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Poll: Donald Trump’s belligerent Islamophobia actually helping him in North Carolina
You may have heard that Donald Trump announced yesterday that he believes—or, at least, says he believes—that the United States should immediately ban all Muslims from entering the country. Trump’s statement has been roundly criticized by most American politicians, including libtards such as Dick Cheney and Paul Ryan. But it remains to be seen if […]
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Nice work if you can get it: High Point University’s president sure gets paid pretty well (and Duke’s isn’t far behind)
The highest-paid college president in North Carolina is not running Duke, UNC, NC State or Wake Forest. That honor belongs instead to Nido Qubein, president of High Point University, a private school 70 miles west of Durham with an enrollment of 4,400. Qubein, a motivational speaker who once authored a book titled How to Get […]
