When Prenetta Evans saw the truck coming down her driveway carrying a baby casket, she fell apart. The three-man crew cranked up their construction equipment and the trees beside her house began to fall. Under those trees lay the remains of her baby, Courtney, who died in 1974 only a week after her premature birth. […]
Fiona Morgan
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Morrisville mayor requests mall memo
Imagine you’re the mayor of a small but growing municipality in western Wake County. Your residents want better shopping options, and your government could always use extra cash. Along comes the biggest mixed-use development proposal your town has ever seen, which will bring with it convenient retail shopping and roughly $850,000 in tax revenue. But […]
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Monster mixed-use set for Morrisville
A project slated to become Morrisville’s biggest mixed-use development was approved by the town’s board Monday night. Anticipated to bring in an estimated $800,000 in tax revenue, Park West Village is hailed by supporters as the town’s answer to Raleigh shopping draws such as North Hills and Cameron Village. But many residents in Morrisville and […]
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FCC to Time Warner: Play ball!
Months of protest from baseball fans have finally scored a legal victory for a regional sports network. An arbitrator appointed by the Federal Communications Commission ruled this week that Time Warner Cable must carry the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network on its standard cable package. MASN is a Maryland-based network that carries Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals […]
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Cary’s new regime
Elected on a wave of protest over backroom politicking and development run amok, Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht and his allies on the Town Council have embarked on a series of changes designed to make town government more transparent and responsive to the public while lessening the financial burdens of Cary’s explosive growth. Weinbrecht, a software […]
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André-Guy Soh
On Dec. 31, John Granville, a 33-year-old American diplomat with the U.S. Agency for International Development, was shot to death in Khartoum, Sudan. Hours before, President George W. Bush had signed a bill that makes it easier for investment managers to divest from Sudan’s oil and defense industries, which have been linked to genocide in […]
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Small world
I’m now experiencing the novelty of typing with both hands. My son, Anthony, was born in late October, and for the past two months (or 10 weeks, in the calendar of babyhood), I’ve held my newborn in one arm while furtively checking e-mail with the other. Now I’m back at work full-time, faced with the […]
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Democracy N.C.’s Bob Hall …
On Oct. 9, Cary voters will cast ballots that look different from any they’ve seen before. Cary is the first town in the Triangle to test Instant Runoff Voting, a system designed to reduce the cost of runoff elections and ensure more citizens’ voices are heard. Other U.S. cities have used IRV (most notably San […]
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Cary citizens file suit over rezoning
The intersection of Davis Drive and High House Road is a crossroads of Cary’s past and future. Red barns still dot the rolling green fields of Sears Farm on the southeast corner, where developers have the go-ahead to turn 75 acres into a mix of office, commercial and residential spaces, including a retirement care facility. […]
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Carol Ellison
Chapel Hill launched free wireless Internet access last month. After years of planning and conversation, the town opted to begin with a small-scale project: Six hotspots along the downtown Franklin Street corridor provide Wi-Fi connectivity to all comers (see a map at townofchapelhill.org). Bob Avery, the town’s information technology director, says the pilot project’s annual […]
