Two years ago, Chatham County’s sprawl lobby–with a little help from sympathizers in the greater Triangle–successfully shepherded their chosen candidate, Bunkey Morgan, into office. Business leaders, real estate and development interests and other pro-growth forces worked behind the scenes to prop up Morgan’s candidacy in the county’s most divisive race in recent history, which pitted […]
Jennifer Strom
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“Saturation evangelism”
Those of you in need of a little boost of faith this spring can look for it in your mailbox. That is, as long as your beliefs fall somewhere along the spectrum of Christianity. Funded by churches, businesses and private donors, Jesus for the VCR and DVD player has arrived in nearly 20 million American […]
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Citizen activists seek seats
The sequel to Chatham County’s election drama of 2002 is already shaping up to be an interesting show, and citizen activists are signing up for leading roles. Two of the five county commissioner seats are up for grabs this year, with a primary slated for July and a general election in November. Two first-time candidates […]
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Digging the madness
Saturday night at Pop’s restaurant in Durham. We’re almost done killing time over a leisurely dinner in the bar while our sixth-grader celebrates one of the many rites of passage heading his way in the next few years: a school social. As the coffee arrives, my Terrapins struggle on the screen over the bartender’s head, […]
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Floyd McKissick Jr. disciplined by N.C. Bar
Durham attorney and former city council member Floyd McKissick Jr. has been disciplined by the N.C. State Bar for professional misconduct involving a conflict of interest. McKissick received a formal reprimand from bar’s grievance committee late last year, which the bar recently released to the public. The reprimand is essentially a slap on the wrist […]
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Presidential dough rising throughout the Triangle
(second of two parts) Last week we ran through a list of local folks who are shoring up President Bush’s re-election campaign with their personal wallets. (If you missed it, it’s online at www.indyweek. com/durham/2004-03-03/election.html ) This week, even as the race narrows down to a Bush-Kerry face-off, we take a look at Triangle donors […]
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Presidential dough rising throughout Triangle
(first of two parts) By the end of last month, Americans across the nation had coughed up nearly $250 million–a quarter of a billion dollars– from their pockets and turned it over to the campaign coffers of the seven Democratic candidates for president. (Howard Dean and Wesley Clark have since dropped out–if you want a […]
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New leader takes the helm at DAN
Divers Alert Network, the international non-profit known around the world as “the Red Cross of scuba diving,” launched a new chapter in its history this week as its second CEO moved into its Durham headquarters. Nine months after embattled former CEO Peter Bennett was forced to retire, Michael Curley took control of DAN on March […]
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Durham’s historical past
From the second balcony of Durham’s gorgeously restored Carolina Theatre, the stage looks tiny, as if you’re looking through the wrong end of a peephole. Looking down, it’s easy to imagine the orchestra and first balcony filled with finely dressed women and men enjoying their view to the vaudeville shows and other entertainment offered onstage […]
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Photo memoir
In late December 1998, I was in the midst of changing jobs, planning a May wedding, gutting and rebuilding my kitchen and helping my fiance, Bill, strategize his first campaign for public office. Neither he nor I had time to stand in the Christmas-season lines at the post office to pick up an unexpected package […]
