It’s been a month since Harris Teeter purged a number of Latino employees from its payroll because of discrepancies in their work papers, but the damage control continues for the Charlotte-based grocery giant. On the one hand, the company refuses to provide basic details such as just how many employees lost their jobs. On the […]
Jon Elliston
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Uncivil War
Chip Pate is a history buff on a collision course with the near future. A marketing specialist in Pittsboro, in his spare time Pate serves as public information officer for the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the pre-eminent Confederate history group. He runs the Web site of his Siler City-based SCV […]
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Crossing Over
If there’s one person in North Carolina who can steer the state’s taxing and spending toward fairness and sustainability, it’s Dan Gerlach. That’s still a mighty big if, but progressives with an eye on state government are mostly thrilled about the Dec. 10 appointment of Gerlach, a leading liberal economist, to the post of senior […]
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Fight for your rights … and party
Got the creeping martial law blues? Erosion of civil liberties got you down? Well, when the going gets tough, sometimes the tough need to get down, so to speak. So says Deborah Ross, head of the North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. At a teach-in last week on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, […]
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Torture 101
Since Sept. 11, a series of seismic shifts has altered the legal landscape, and suddenly federal law enforcement is thinking what until very recently was the unthinkable. On Oct. 21, the Washington Post reported that some FBI officials, frustrated by the strict silence maintained by key terrorism suspects in custody, are starting to discuss the […]
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The Poster Police
A.J. Brown, a 19-year-old freshman at Durham Tech, was thanking God it was Friday. It was 5 p.m., the school week was over, and in an hour she’d be meeting her boyfriend to unwind. Then: Knock, knock … unexpected guests at Brown’s Duke Manor apartment. Opening the door, she found a casually dressed man, and […]
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Life in War’s Shadow
The new war against terrorism has several “ground zeros,” focal points that are defining the conflict. They include lower Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Kabul, Afghanistan and Fayetteville, N.C. It’s from two Fayetteville military posts, the Army’s Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base, that many, and perhaps most, of the U.S. troops who will fight in […]
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Spooky food
Trick or treat, what’s in what you eat? In case the combined specters of terrorist violence and anthrax attacks aren’t enough to keep you shivering in fear this Halloween, consider this: More and more of the crops we live on are grown with genetically modified organism (GMO) biotechnology. A rising chorus of environmental and food-safety […]
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America’s New Anti-War
A charter bus, one of two from Chapel Hill, is cruising into Washington, D.C. Its 40 occupants have come to join the largest national peace rally since the country declared war against terrorism. Josef Osterneck, a 35-year-old acoustic engineer from Raleigh, sits up front. But hitting the streets for peace wasn’t his first instinct after […]
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Beam me up, voters
Candidate’s Log, Stardate Nov. 6, 2001: An enterprising young politico seeks to boldly go where he has never gone before. The upcoming municipal elections could bring some dramatic changes to Triangle politics, but some of the races–and some of the candidates–could accurately be described as humdrum. Here to keep things lively in Hillsborough is Scott […]
