The Sierra Club’s Coal-Free UNC campaign has asked how a campus many consider to be a regional leader on environmental issues can still burn thousands of tons of coal each year. UNC’s Energy Task Force, a group established in January to address that, and other questions, got its answer last week. The university owes $94 […]
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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Hillsborough police chief resigns to focus on sheriff run
Hillsborough needs a new police chief after four-year veteran Clarence Birkhead announced his resignation today, choosing to focus squarely on his bid for the Orange County sheriff post. Birkhead, 49, is running against Lindy Pendergrass, who has held the title of the county’s top cop since 1982, in the May 4 Democratic primary. The winner […]
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Durham mayor endorses Ken Lewis in Senate race
Durham Mayor Bill Bell endorsed Ken Lewis for U.S. Senate today, joining two former local mayors in backing the local lawyer in the May 4 Democratic primary. ‘During the more than 20 years I have known Ken as a business lawyer and community leader in the Durham area; I have seen the breadth of his […]
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Chapel Hill church dedicates third anti-torture banner after two were stolen
CHAPEL HILL The congregants at Chapel Hill’s Church of Reconciliation gathered in the parking lot Sunday afternoon to dedicate a banner denouncing torture for the third time. Two previous signs were cut down and pilfered during the past two years, most recently in December. The new one hangs between two trees and is reinforced with […]
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RailHawks struggle offensively against New England Revolution, falling 2-1, but new striker to join team
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARYUp until Saturday night, the Carolina RailHawks had been peppering the back of the net on the practice fields against local college teams as a couple dozen fanatics and family members stood along the sidelines. A short walk across the parking lot, they found a bigger club, the MLS’s New England Revolution, […]
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Fight against UNC’s coal use continues
Coal-Free UNC bookended Wednesday’s campus Energy Task Force meeting with two events, one to sway opinion through song and the other through intellectual testimony. In between the rally and the panel discussion, university energy consultants told the task force that it would take significant legislation to drive up the cost of coal and decrease the […]
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Poverty, meet the Sims
Overcome with stress and finally lacking the strength to bear her family’s dim plight, Betty Boling silenced her three children with a terse jab and put both hands to her temples. Minutes earlier she had returned home from work to learn that she had been evicted from her three-bedroom home and that the family was […]
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Chapel Hill’s legislative priorities will have to wait
The General Assembly’s upcoming short session will focus on the budget and not much else, the Orange County delegation informed Chapel Hill Town Council members over breakfast last week. “We’re told from session to session, you know, that the short session is going to be short and sweet. I do believe it’s going to be […]
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Group challenges UNC to go green
The Sierra Club Coal-Free UNC Campaign is using a meeting of UNC’s Energy Task Force and St. Patrick’s Day as pegs for a green rally Wednesday afternoon. The group will gather at 1:30 p.m. at the Old Well on Cameron Avenue, just blocks away from UNC’s coal-fired cogeneration plant that heats and cools the campus, […]
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N.C. State’s Technician in jeopardy, lacks staff, editor to lead it
Update (8:35 p.m. Friday): A group of Technician alumni, current staff and others concerned about the newspaper’s fate will gather at 8 p.m. Saturday at Mitch’s Tavern to hatch a plan. All are welcome to attend. So far, the Facebook page announcing the event shows 23 confirmed guests. The Technician, N.C. State’s student newspaper for […]