More than 2,000 people marched on the state capitol earlier this month during Historic Thousands on Jones Street, an event sponsored by the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Among them was Fred Foster, who was sworn in as president of the Durham branch of the NAACP at the […]
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Bridging the divide
Bridging the divide | Goodwill in Raleigh | Teens teaching teens | One Laptop per Child | e-NC Authority | Connecting nonprofits Waiting until 2007 to launch a special issue on technology means most Internet startups and breakthroughs in gadgetry are old news. What’s happening now has more to do with the tools people are […]
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e-NC Authority goes the ‘last mile’
Bridging the divide | Goodwill in Raleigh | Teens teaching teens | One Laptop per Child | e-NC Authority | Connecting nonprofits Jane Smith Patterson wants every home and business in North Carolina to have access to broadband Internet service. A veteran of state politics, Patterson is using her connections in Raleigh to make it […]
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Changing channels
New year, new rules. As of Jan. 1, if a company wants to provide cable TV service to any city or county in North Carolina, it must file an application with Secretary of State Elaine Marshall’s office rather than negotiate with local officials. The change was approved by the General Assembly last year after intensive […]
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Honoring the past, facing the future
Durham has embarked on the task of telling its storythe history of American entrepreneurship and the creation of the black middle classand, in the process, is pursuing a new type of enterprise: finding ways to grow and profit from its history. Last Thursday, as the snow melted on the torn-up downtown streets, more than 100 […]
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10 more to watch
See also: The progressive prescription | Expensive insurance for serious health problems | Big-money campaign contributions | Oil addiction | Holes in the Latino safety net | 10 more to watch | No ordinary day for ‘HK on J’ Tax reform The state faces a $1 billion budget shortfall thanks to the expiration of temporary […]
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Durham’s Culture Crawl
Durham’s Culture Crawl is alive and kicking. More than 30 artists, gallery owners, performers, residents and city boosters met at Blue Coffee Café last Wednesday to discuss the future of downtown Durham’s monthly art walk since the departure of Joe & Jo’s pub owner JoAnne Worthington last November. Under her care, the event had been […]
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Charities get creative as giving gets harder
Charities depend on the month of December for much of their revenue, just as retailers do, and so as our mailboxes fill with catalogs, they also fill with end-of-year appeals from nonprofits. Nationally, both need and donations went up in the first nine months of 2006, according to a study published recently by GuideStar, a […]
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Peace, love and respect
Chuck Davis cannot hold still. As his company, the African American Dance Ensemble, performs a Kwanzaa program for a crowd of preschoolers at the Hayti Heritage Center, the choreographer, teacher and performer known as Baba Chuck bounces, sways and claps. When it’s his turn back in the spotlight, he walks to the foot of the […]
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Ideas don’t have to cost an arm and a leg
See also: New innovations What are good ideas worth these days? About a dime a dozen? The four young men at Tackle Design, a small design firm in downtown Durham, have a lot of good ideas. “We’ve thought about installing a good idea button in the shop,” jokes Tackle partner Jonathan Kuniholm, who founded the […]
