Sadie Dula checks the mail every day for the check she earned but knows probably never will arrive. “Everyday when I open the mailbox I’m always hoping I’ll have a check in there, but I don’t,” she says. As the Indy reported in May, Dula was one of seven teachers at the Children’s University of […]
Joe Schwartz
Bio: Joe Schwartz is a former INDY Week staff writer who works for soccer.com in Hillsborough. He's been a Gooner since he fell for Thierry Henry in 2005, and he still believes in Arsène Wenger.Email: [email protected]
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Not so fast, Obey Creek
It was difficult to discern the names of residents opposed to a controversial mixed-used development as they were called to the podium at Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night, because of the loud applause. Person after person called Obey Creek “a radical change,” “not yet a well-developed proposal” and potentially an “undesirable precedent.” Developers hope […]
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Rogers, Eubanks Road leaders aim for $50,000 Pepsi grant, need your vote
The Rogers-Eubanks Road Neighborhood Association is asking for your support as the group competes for a $50,000 grant from Pepsi to fund a community center and garden to unite neighbors. After one month of voting, the project ranks No. 333 out of more than 1,000 hopefuls in the Pepsi Refresh Project and needs to reach […]
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Who’s giving and who’s getting: key races
Download full story as one page: JPG • PDF If you totaled the huge sums raised and spent on elections in North Carolina and funneled that money to counties, cities and school districts, you could erase some of their deficits. But that’s not where the money goes. Instead, campaign spending in key races, including the […]
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McKee, Pendergrass, Kinnaird win, sales tax fails
Orange County voters elected newcomer Earl McKee as the District 2 county commissioner, welcomed Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass back for a seventh term and narrowly shot down a 1/4 cent sales tax hike that was endorsed supported by both school boards and chambers of commerce, according to unofficial election results. Turnout far surpassed Board of Elections […]
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Orange County early voting running smoothly despite all the yelling at the polls
Orange County Board of Elections Director Tracy Reams says she’s received several complaints from voters about overzealous, boisterous campaigners distributing literature at one-stop voting sites. “They are saying that greeters outside are a little too aggressive and are shouting at them as they go by,” she says. So far, Reams says campaigners are keeping the […]
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Nature lovers oppose location of NCSU chancellor’s new home just feet away from Lake Raleigh Woods
Related documents Download PDF (1.8 MB) of proposal to establish Lake Raleigh Woods as a nature preserve NCSU’s “This Red House” blog: Follow construction, view plans and read a history about the chancellor’s house 2005 Faculty Senate and Student Senate resolutions protecting Lake Raleigh View the Chancellor’s Forum where Woodson responds to the controversy (25 […]
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Chapel Hill police chief’s career is open and shut, set to retire Nov. 30
Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran is closing the case on his career in local law enforcement. His last day will be Nov. 30. “I told the manager that I owed him another Halloween,” Curran said of the Franklin Street celebration. “The rules are the first day of retirement has to be the first day […]
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Activists share insights during Campus Y celebration
Decades of UNC students credited the Campus Y with spurring them to a life of service during last weekend’s 150th anniversary celebration of the center. Bill Ferris, senior associate director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, described the Y, which organizers say is the longest standing YMCA in the nation […]
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Millions of research dollars at stake as Price, Lawson compete for Congress
At our packed-to-the-gills debate between U.S. Rep. David Price and two-time challenger B.J. Lawson last week, the two men sparred on, among many other issues, federal research funding. Photo by D.L. AndersonB.J. Lawson, shown here campaigning at Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill in 2008, is pro-pita bread and anti-government-funded research. Lawson wants to privatize research […]