It’s Friday. News for you: 1. Charlotte. We’ve got a guy on the ground there. Everything you want to know about yesterday’s protests can be found here. 2. State of emergency declared for flooded N.C. counties. The counties of Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, Pasquotank and Perquimans are flooding like hell […]
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The Morning Roundup: Another Black Man Killed by Police in North Carolina
It’s Wednesday. Your daily news: 1. Things are not good in Charlotte. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police yesterday shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. From WBTV: The shooting happened around 4 p.m. at The Village at College Downs apartment complex on the 9600 block of Old Concord Road. Officers said they were searching for a person with […]
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How Chapel Hill’s “Bicycle Apartments” Became LUX
In Chapel Hill, where progressive ideas are loudly championed, if not always acted upon, the name “the Bicycle Apartments” held real allure in 2013. Pitched by Trinitas Ventures, an Indiana-based developer, the project proposed to convert the property at 602 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard into a brighter, new-urbanist dreamscape: off-campus living for UNC students, […]
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Support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Hillsborough Tonight
Up in North Dakota, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmentalist groups continue to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, which seeks to carry as much as 400,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken region of western North Dakota across South Dakota and Iowa before connecting with an existing pipeline in Illinois. This […]
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Doomed Republican Congressional Candidates in Triangle Have Pretty Cool Signs
The preposterous gerrymandering of North Carolina by Republicans following the 2010 elections means Republicans win in most parts in the state but lose horribly in others. In addition to the snake-like Twelfth Congressional District, the districts where Republicans stand no chance of winning are the First and Fourth Districts, home to Durham, Chapel Hill, and […]
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What’s Up with That Questionably Zoned Durham GOP Headquarters?
“It would have been very foolish of us to take ownership of a location and not be sure we could use it as such,” Durham County Republican Party chairman Immanuel Jarvis told the INDY last month, after we questioned whether the local GOP chapter was violating local ordinances by housing its new headquarters in a […]
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Popular Carry-on Items at RDU Include Guns, Knives, Grenades
In 2015, Transportation Security Administration officers at Raleigh-Durham International Airport stopped thirty travelers attempting to bring guns onto their flights. We’re a little over eight months into 2016, and already thirty-seven travelers have been discovered trying to fly with their guns. The majority of those guns were loaded, the TSA noted in a release yesterday. […]
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The Morning Roundup: A Republican Lawmaker in N.C. Has Finally Spoken Out against HB 2
Hello, Wednesday! 1. A North Carolina Republican has at last called for a repeal of HB 2. State senator Tamara Barringer, a Republican representing Wake County, draws the line at an NCAA freeze-out, apparently. Her statement on HB 2, issued yesterday: “Whenever legislative bodies rush to judgment on important public policy decisions, there are unintended […]
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The Party Barn: Are Rustic Weddings Destroying a Way of Life in Rural Orange County?
Kara Brewer is, quite literally, surrounded by neighbors who want her gone. She didn’t seem especially bothered by this fact the day I drove out to her property in Bingham Township, in southwestern Orange County. Brewer, thirty-seven, was visible from Millikan Road, working inside a small garden encased in deer netting. She wore black leggings […]
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Can a Nobel Prize Winner Bring Peace to a Contentious Property in Chapel Hill?
On the list of things Chapel Hill residents would prefer to see less of, a new hotel falls somewhere between luxury apartments and university budget cuts. Until recently, though, that seemed to be the fate of the 1.7-acre parcel at 1609 East Franklin Street, sandwiched between the Ballet School of Chapel Hill and a psychology […]
