The term “public-private partnership” usually has a positive ring–it suggests public projects made possible by support from private enterprise, meaning they require less from taxpayers. But the North Carolina Museum of Art is finding that public-private partnerships can be very tricky things. Last week, the state auditor released a highly critical report on the NCMA’s […]
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Inside The Herald-Sun
Outside the window of Bob Ashley’s office are the piney woods that drew him back to North Carolina to take a job as editor of The Herald-Sun in Durham one year ago. From this part of The Herald-Sun building, just off U.S. 15-501, the view is peaceful, a wall of evergreen trees filtering the afternoon […]
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How has the paper changed?
We looked at a week’s worth of The Herald-Sun from 2004 and a week from 2005 to see how coverage had changed in the year since Paxton took over the paper. Comparing the final edition of the seven issues starting Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, to the week starting Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005, we noticed the […]
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Adios, Nuestro Pueblo
When The Herald-Sun discontinued Nuestro Pueblo, its bilingual supplement, it cut short an experiment and nipped in the bud a long-term relationship its editors had nurtured with Durham’s Latino community. Nuestro Pueblo began in 1998 as a weekly page of articles written in both Spanish and English by metro editor Mark Schultz under the direction […]
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Underground guitars
Hidden under the High Strung music shop on Durham’s Ninth Street, the Gadow Guitar factory buzzes with activity and ambition. The noise of sanding and the loud hum of the exhaust fan are constant. Guitars hang around in various stages of construction. In the milling room, several thousand dollars’ worth of maple wood from Washington […]
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Does print have a future?
Every week, I schlep a heavy bag of newspaper to the recycling bin. Most of it I haven’t even looked at. It’s full of color ads, coupons and other stuff I’m completely uninterested in. I love reading the paper in the morning. I want it printed out for me, and I want to see how […]
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Raleigh abortion war veteran awaits high court verdict
Susan Hill doesn’t wear a bulletproof vest to work anymore, but she might need to start again. Hill is the president of the National Women’s Health Organization, a network of women’s health clinics headquartered in Raleigh. A native of Durham and a veteran of the abortion wars, Hill started providing abortion services two weeks after […]
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Thomas Savage
When Thomas Savage arrived as a freshman on the campus of North Carolina A&T University, he might as well have been a thousand miles away from the farm he grew up on in Bertie County. “I was very naîve when I came from the farm,” he says. “Greensboro seemed like a big city to me.” […]
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Triangle Code Pink
Triangle’s Code Pink is new on the scene, but their vibrant, attention-getting activities have rejuvenated the local peace movement, persuaded lawmakers and brought creativity and humanity to the sometimes grueling endeavor of waging peace. The members, mostly women, meet monthly at different locations in the Triangle, where they finish the meeting with a public vigil. […]
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Painted by the fire
Begin at the very beginning. North Carolina’s regional pottery is known by names like the Coles, the Teagues and the Aumans, 20th-century masters that made the state’s pottery tradition famous. But you won’t find their works at the N.C. Museum of Art’s exhibition. Instead, The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery provides […]