There’s a new player in the Durham political game, just in time to ante up for the city’s fall elections. Durham First, a new political action committee, is targeting four key issues–development, crime, schools and financial accountability in government. The group joins four leading issue-oriented PACs that span the political spectrum in the Bull City. […]
Jennifer Strom
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The Siege of Adam & Eve
Fifteen years ago last week, the U.S. Department of Justice tried to swallow Phil Harvey whole. Backed by the Reagan administration’s Meese Commission, prosecutors declared him a peddler of obscenity. On May 29, 1986, 37 officers invaded his Orange County adult novelty company, Adam & Eve, in a surprise raid. But Harvey, armed with a […]
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Fresh from class
The political scuffling around Durham classrooms isn’t lost on the people who sit in them every day. Last week, a group of students told the grown-ups to get their act together. DeWarren Langley, head of a new group called Teenagers Politically Active (TPA), told the Durham Board of Education and Superintendent Ann Denlinger they’re letting […]
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Adoption crisis
When Durham County animal control officers seized 11 pit bulls during a dog-fighting raid on Dec. 30, those dogs began a journey that will likely end in a death sentence when they are no longer needed for evidence. Because humans have exploited them for bloody sport, their chances of becoming beloved companion animals are slim, […]
