In the old Center City of Philadelphia, visitors can stand in the room where a modest group of forward-thinking farmers and merchants drafted the document that sealed our rejection of a too-powerful government that wouldn’t listen to its people. The room is carefully preserved, furnished with artifacts and reproductions that bring those 18th-century debates to […]
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Lawyer in Raleigh scam faces disbarment
In September 2003, Alpine Properties of Raleigh sold Sidney Lowe six rundown houses in five towns, from Gastonia to Wilson. Lowe borrowed $374,000 from a bank to finance the purchase. Lowe, who at the time was employed as an assistant NBA coach and is now the head coach of the N.C. State men’s basketball team, […]
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Split tickets in Chatham
Chatham County voters sent a mixed message in last week’s Democratic primary, choosing one winner from each of the slates vying for two commissioners’ seats in a race that has left both sides dissecting the results a week later. The Chatham Coalition, a citizens’ political action committee, pushed challengers (and the group’s former leaders) Sally […]
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Pittsboro’s General Store Cafe expands
Some communities are lucky enough to have a gathering place that grows organically over time into a center for food, art, music and conversation. Pittsboro is about to become three times that lucky: Its General Store Cafe (39 West St., 542-2432, www.thegeneralstorecafe.com) is tripling in size. Special events April 3-6 will showcase the new space, […]
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Feds catch up with James Webb
Federal authorities have stepped in to do what dozens of disenchanted investors in North Carolina, Florida and California have been unable to accomplish over the last five years: force James Webb to give them their money back. The self-styled Raleigh real estate entrepreneur who relocated to Florida after state regulators and private investors began questioning […]
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Somebuddy like you
I hadn’t driven down BPW Club Road in Carrboro in the many years since my friend Laura and I grew up and got husbands and lives. But early one morning last week, I cruised down Laura’s old street and felt a curtain of memories drop around me. How many evenings we whiled away in her […]
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Joe Herzenberg, 1941-2007
Joe Herzenberg had a big voice. Booming across the sidewalk on Franklin Street or over the phone line, he could get your attention with a bit of political news, a funny story, a short lesson in local history. And he was always good for a little gossip. He didn’t hold a conventional job for most […]
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Former Kane Realty exec gets 2 1/2 years
The man who handled finances for the real estate company behind Raleigh’s North Hills malland many other Triangle commercial propertieshas been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for siphoning more than $1 million for his own use. Clifford A. “Mickey” Clark, 55, the former president and chief financial officer at Kane Realty Corp., was […]
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Companions
This week’s issue is one of our favorites around the Indy newsroom. We might knock heads over politics, music, movies and who gets the last slice of pound cake in the break room, but when it comes to the subject of our companion animals, we are all total softies. We tell furkid stories, we petsit […]
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Gift horses
From the numbers being floated around in editorials in the daily papers, a new federal research lab in Butner sounds like a real economic development boon for North Carolina: a $450 million investment that will generate $1.65 billion in revenue its first two decades and create 250-350 high-paying jobs, all while studying the world’s deadliest […]
