This is the time of year that my backyard tomatoes finally turn red, or pink, or yellow, or some weird purple, and I’m reminded, painfully, how bad the tomatoes I’ve been eating the other 10 months of the year are. This is also the time of year, in the odd-numbered years, anyway, that local political […]
Jennifer Strom
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We get calls
We get two kinds of phone calls about James Webb: People who are about to hand the self-described “real estate entrepreneur” large sums of money, but Google him first; and people who write him six-figure checks, start to wonder whenor ifthey will see the huge returns he’s promised, and then Google him. Unfortunately, the latter […]
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Orange dog panel member quits
A member of Orange County’s committee on dog tethering has resigned in the wake of an Indy investigation questioning her residency and her ties to dog fighting. A longtime breeder of pit bulls who, according to court documents, lives in Pennsylvania, Alane Koki submitted her resignation Monday, an hour before a public hearing about the […]
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Data basics
Last week, we raised questions about Alane Koki’s membership on a citizens’ committee studying whether Orange County should limit or prohibit dog owners from tying or chaining dogs. (See “Member of Orange County’s chained-dog study panel has ties to dog-fighting.”) We documented Koki’s failure, during the panel’s application process, to disclose her long history of […]
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It ain’t over
Near the end of the baseball movie Bull Durham, a young pitcher played by Tim Robbins faces a horde of cameras and microphones andafter lessons by an older mentor in saying meaningless sound-bites like “I’m just happy to do my part for the ball club”lets fly with aphorism after platitude. The reporters eat it up, […]
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Extreme Makeover: Indy Edition
When I interviewed for a staff writer job here in early 2001, three of us crammed into an office on the second floor of the rambling old Durham house that’s been the paper’s home for 20 of its 23 years in print. With the door shut, there was reasonable legroom for two people. Three peopleone […]
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Margie Ellison
2006 Citizen Award winners Margie Ellison | Lanya Shapiro & Traction | Chad Johnston | Andrew Pearson | The Pesticide Education Project Early in the morning on Election Day, Margie Ellison went down to her Chatham County precinct to vote. Approaching the Bonlee polling place, she was stopped by a campaign worker who asked for […]
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Off the couch
If you’re one of those Indy readers who works on political campaigns, serves on a nonprofit board, mentors at-risk teenagers or plans to serve Thanksgiving dinner at a local soup kitchen, then stop reading this now. Go on and enjoy the rest of the news, music, arts and entertainment in our pages this week. But […]
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Former Kane Realty executive indicted
The former president and chief financial officer of Kane Realty Corp., Clifford A. “Mickey” Clark, has been indicted on federal charges stemming from the embezzlement of more than $1 million from the Raleigh development company behind North Hills and several other prominent Triangle projects. “Clark engaged in a complex scheme in which he fraudulently took […]
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California cracks down on Raleigh entrepreneur
Real estate entrepreneur James Webb may have left Raleigh for new ventures in Florida, but the trail of disenchanted investors he’s left across the country finally has authorities closing in from the Triangle to California. Webb, the proprietor of Alpine Properties and CitiRise Redevelopment, made a name for himself locally by convincing people to loan […]
