Cloaked in Hawaiian T-shirts with tongues planted firmly in cheeks, leis around necks, cone-shaped party hats on scalps and noisemakers in mouths, members of the progressive Together N.C. coalition threw a send-off party to North Carolina on Wednesday morning on the Halifax Mall, bidding adieu to the state’s ability to thrive, they said. Photo by […]
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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Drug Treatment Courts get the budget ax, even though they save money
Down the stairs from the main courtroom in the Orange County Courthouse, Courtney Kennedy sits behind a wooden desk surrounded by four bare walls and answers a call from one of her clients. “There’s a lot on the line, your kids are on the line,” cautions Kennedy. “Your children will slip down this hill with […]
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Lawsuit challenges Chapel Hill vote on IFC homeless shelter
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in North Carolina Superior Court calls into question the legitimacy of the InterFaith Council for Social Service’s move from downtown Chapel Hill to a new facility off of Homestead Road. The Chapel Hill Town Council approved the permit application for the 52-bed, 17-cot men’s shelter, Community House, in May by a […]
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UNC housekeeper files sexual harassment suit
In the three months she worked under the ever-watchful eye of her supervisor, Wade Farrington, UNC housekeeper Amanda Hulon became an expert at taking out the garbagevery delicately. “[Farrington] would be standing right directly behind me while I’m bending over picking up trash,” she recalls, the tip of her cigarette glowing orange in her Carrboro […]
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Why the U.S. men’s soccer team likes Cary
The summer international soccer season got off to an unpromising start Saturday when the United States men’s national team (USMNT) was comprehensively dismantled by Spain, the reigning FIFA World Cup champion. While the 4-0 thrashing was difficult to watch, U.S. coach Bob Bradley fielded a weakened side, further underscoring that the team came to Cary’s […]
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Barrett announces run for CHCCS board
Chapel Hill High School alumnus James Barrett announced today his candidacy for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education. “We as a community share a set of goals and values for our school district. Now is the time to do things a little differently to make real progress on those goals,” he stated in […]
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RailHawks defeat Atlanta to earn club-best fifth straight win as Barbara scoring streak ends
Etienne Barbara’s record-setting scoring streak ended at eight games Saturday, but his two assists earned the Carolina RailHawks a more important feat—the club has now won a franchise-high five games on the trot. Barbara’s turn and delicate chip to the back post found strike partner Pablo Campos in the box in the 81st minute and […]
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Resistance: Heroes of America
Lost in the familiar Civil War narrative of North vs. South, federalists vs. slaveholders, are the thousands of non-slaveholding North Carolinians who objected to “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.” They called themselves the Red Strings, but the discretion of their subversive courage means that our memory of them is obscure. “It’s […]
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Telecommunications giants 1. People 0. Perdue lets HB129 become law
Governor Bev Perdue will let House Bill 129, the anti-municipal broadband bill become law today, opting to neither sign nor veto the legislation before the midnight deadline. She issued a statement (full text below) saying she both wants every North Carolinian to have Internet access and seeks rules to prevent cities from having “an unfair […]
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Chapel Hill warms to food trucks, considers next steps to allowing vendors in town
Chapel Hill moved closer to allowing food trucks within town limits Monday night during a public hearing where members of the Town Council expressed initial support for the mobile vendors provided that regulations could be set and enforced. “I don’t envision this as something that would only be a benefit to the downtown,” Mayor pro […]