The ramifications of last week’s federal appeals court ruling that North Carolina’s racist 2013 “voter ID” law is, in fact, racist, are coming into closer focus. Today, Attorney General Roy Cooper—who’s also running for governor—announced that his office would not participate in defending the law on appeal to a higher court. Here’s Cooper’s brief statement […]
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Charges Dropped in Controversial Durham Marijuana Bust; One Arresting Officer No Longer with DPD
On the evening of April 8, several officers from the Durham Police Department’s HEAT (High Enforcement Abatement Team) unit arrived at a residence at 3417 Misty Pine Avenue, in Durham’s Bragtown neighborhood. They were there, DPD later stated, to conduct a “knock-and-talk,” an investigative technique performed by police when criminal activity is suspected but there […]
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The Morning Roundup: The Fight Against HB 2 Officially Begins
This weekend, in Donald Trump: *The Republican presidential candidate criticized the grieving parents of a United States soldier who gave his life for our country. *He said Russia wouldn’t attempt to move into the Ukraine, even though it has already seized the country’s Crimean Peninsula. *A bunch of nude photos of his wife, Melania, surfaced […]
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North Carolina Voter ID Law Is Discriminatory, Federal Appeals Court Rules, Striking It Down
A major victory for voting rights in North Carolina today: A federal appeals court in Richmond has struck down the state’s 2013 voter ID law. The decision reverses a lower court’s April ruling that upheld the law. In an opinion issued today, a three-judge panel found that “the photo ID requirement, the reduction in days […]
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The Morning Roundup: More History Being Made
Good morning. Just sitting here enjoying a bowl of Kroger® bran flakes and catching up on the news of yesterday. Join me, won’t you? 1. Hillary Clinton formally wins Democratic nomination. Lots of hoopla in Philadelphia last night in celebration of the first woman ever picked to lead a major party in America. Bill Clinton […]
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Gun Violence Claims the Life of a Durham Pastor
The ambulance and police cars zoomed down Dunbar Street just after 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, July 16. They were responding to a cardiac arrest call, but when they arrived, they found a man dead of a gunshot wound near the intersection of Lincoln Street and Dunbaracross the street from Catherine Mangum’s house. Mangum, an […]
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Is the Durham GOP’s New Headquarters Violating Zoning Laws?
About six weeks ago, Trace Ramsey noticed new neighbors moving their belongings into 215 North Briggs Avenue, the long-vacant house next door to him in east Durham. Not long after, he says, he observed people out in the yard, trimming the lawn and the bushes. But nobody was sleeping there at night. “So, a few […]
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Worst Governor in America Says North Carolina Must Rally Behind McCrory
All these horrible ideas the Republicans in charge of North Carolina have tried to push through these last four years? A lot of them have already been implemented in Kansas, the land of my birth and the home of my kin. Kansas has always been a conservative place, but since Sam Brownback was elected governor, […]
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Mike Krzyzewski Weighs in on HB 2
Last week, the Duke men’s basketball team released its schedule for the upcoming season. The Blue Devils were supposed to play Albany in November as part of the Hall of Fame Tipoff tournament, but that game is no longer taking place, owing to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s banning of non-essential travel to North Carolina […]
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The Morning Roundup: Make It Stop
Another day has dawned, and there is news to be consumed. 1. Donald Trump is officially the Republican nominee for President of the United States. The final tallying of the Republican delegates was held at the Republican National Convention last night, and the people there agreed that Donald Trump was the best person to lead […]
