Durham residents and businesses emitted 6.8 tons of greenhouse gases in 2005, above the national average. As part of the county’s reduction plan, officials recently hired Tobin Freid as its sustainability coordinator, whose job is to educate business, government, industry and residents on cutting these emissions. The ambitious plan calls for reductions of 50 percent […]
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Bull Durham creators honored, but where’s Kevin Costner?
Kevin Costner may some find some nasty voicemails from Thom Mount and Ron Shelton, the creators of Bull Durham, who joked that he had “no good excuse” for missing the Durham Convention and Visitor’s Bureau’s luncheon in their honor. While Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, the film’s other notably absent stars, sent their regrets for […]
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Farmworkers draw student support
In the border town of Nogales, Mexico, people prepare to risk their lives trying to cross deserts, mountains and the turf of dangerous drug traffickers. Coyotes, smugglers who are paid to illegally haul immigrants into the United States, scout for border crossers and then drive vans crammed with dozens of people to the Tohono O’odham […]
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Shalala: Veterans benefits system is broken
Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars won’t get proper health care until the U.S. government updates and simplifies the bureaucracy strangling benefits and outpatient care. This is the conclusion of Donna Shalala, former secretary of the U.S. Department Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration. President George W. Bush commissioned Shalala, Bob Dole […]