On a rare Monday afternoon at home, Sarah Gamble, forty-nine, and her thirteen-year-old grandson, Cameron, banter in the living room as a TV blares in the background. There’s a Judge Judy-type show on, with lots of gesticulation and shouting, but they’re not paying attention. Gamble, in yoga pants and a T-shirt, grabs a moss green […]
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Thom Tillis, Textbook Definition of a Schmuck, Says Goldman Sachs Is a Champion of the “Little Guys”
In an impressive rant at a Senate hearing this afternoon, Thom Tillis somehow managed to cite Ayn Rand and go on a tirade against the demonization of Goldman Sachs, citing their apparent commitment to employing “the little guy,” the Huffington post reported. “I feel like sometimes I’m living a reality TV version of Atlas Shrugged,” […]
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Kaiser Family Foundation: Elderly Tar Heels Will Suffer Disproportionately Under Trumpcare, Premiums in N.C. Will Skyrocket
Tomorrow, the House will vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with Paul Ryan’s much-touted alternative, the American Health Care Act. The GOP proposal—or Trumpcare, as it’s known—would, among other things, make massive cuts to the Medicaid program and stealthily cut taxes for wealthy Americans (shocker). Given that the Republicans have been […]
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How Weather, Chance, and War Brought Twenty Thousand Persecuted Vietnamese to North Carolina
As Glun Siu walks around Raleigh’s St. Paul’s Christian Church, he appears perfectly at ease. Petite, with a head of silver-streaked black hair, he strides confidently, jangling his keys. But he wasn’t always so comfortable here. When the forty-eight-year-old arrived in North Carolina in 2002, he didn’t speak any English and knew nothing about the […]
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A Half-Century Ago, Gail Phares Went to Nicaragua. She Came Back a Radical.
“We all need to be radicalized.” These are not necessarily the first words you’d expect to hear from Gail Phares, a seventy-seven-year-old with a shaggy bob and a wooden cross draped around her neck. But in her Raleigh office, she’s seated beneath a wall of posters reflecting that mantra: stenciled-in maps and photos of activist […]
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Former Rolesville SRO Won’t Face Criminal Charges
A Wake County grand jury has declined to bring charges against the Rolesville police officer who violently slammed a high school student to the ground in January, ABC 11 reports. The incident involved Rolesville SRO Ruben de Los Santos, who was caught on video slamming Jasmine Darwin, a fifteen-year-old student, to the ground. According to […]
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Police Chief: No More Checkpoints in Durham
The Durham Police Department has been ordered to stop conducting all traffic checkpoints moving forward, Police Chief C.J. Davis announced at a Durham Congregations, Associations, and Neighborhoods meeting this afternoon. During a brief Q&A session at the event, which brought an estimated 1,300 people to Durham’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Davis said she was “very […]
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Breaking: Rolesville SRO Who Slammed Student Resigns
Ruben De Los Santos, the Roleseville police officer caught in a viral video slamming a high school student to the ground, has resigned. According to a press release from the Rolesville police department, De Los Santos submitted his resignation letter yesterday. He had been on paid administrative leave since the video made the rounds on […]
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Two Months After a Rolesville SRO Threw a Teenage Girl to the Ground, It’s Unclear What Tangible Reforms Will Take Place
In January, a disturbing video made the rounds on social media. It showed a school resource officer, Ruben De Los Santos, slamming a fifteen-year-old Roseville High student to the ground. The viral video thrust North Carolina into the national spotlight once again, triggered widespread outrage, and galvanized local activists seeking broad system reform. Nearly two […]
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Rolesville Viral Video Triggers Panel on School Policing
One of the final questions in a packed Rolesville town hall on school policing came from a small middle school student named Caleb. In a navy blue jacket, he cautiously stood up and addressed the room full of adults, including the Wake County sheriff and Rolesville mayor. Why, he began, should school resource officers be […]