Four times over the past year, Smash Hit hot dog cart vendor Donnie Rollins has gone through the same routine with Capt. Michael Linton of the Duke University Police Department. First, Rollins said, he would see a white Chevy roll up to his regular spot near the FedEx/ Kinko’s on Ninth Street, usually between noon […]
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Chatham commissioners could strip Environmental Review Board of its main duties
What’s at stake? A 10-member citizen advisory board, the Chatham County Environmental Review Board is composed of an attorney, a riverkeeper, a developer and several engineers and scientists. • It develops and proposes new environmental regulations for the county. • It serves as the county’s Watershed Review Board, which is legally required by the state. […]
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State eugenics task force hears from survivors; report on possible compensation due Aug. 1
photo by Adam David KissickElaine Riddick, a victim of forced sterilization, speaks before a state task force that could recommend compensation for the nearly 3,000 living victims sterilized through the N.C. Eugenics Board. At an age when most of their peers share family memories and photos of children and cherished grandchildren, several men and women […]