The months-long investigation into whether there was any foul play during the March 15 primary elections in Durham County has been handed over to state law enforcement officials. The March primary was called into question after the county board of elections discovered, after a small internal investigation, that provisional ballots had gone missing or been […]
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Battle Over N.C. Heats Up as Obama Bashes Burr, Roasts Trump
Sitting under an unseasonably warm November sun, President Barack Obama brought his own heat to the Michael Hooker Fields at UNC-Chapel Hill. The crowd of about sixteen thousand sweated and suffered through dehydration to listen to Obama and other North Carolina-based Hillary Clinton surrogates urge students to vote. U.S. Representative David Price, who represents North […]
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The Morning Roundup: DOJ Takes Interest in NAACP Suit, Early Voting Rocks, and Other Things Happening Around the Triangle
Good morning, y’all. Happy Thursday! Here are some of today’s finest headlines: 1. The U.S. Department of Justice has taken an interest in a NAACP lawsuit filed in the state on Monday. The NAACP filed the suit alleging voters in Beaufort, Moore and Cumberland county election boards were removed from voter rolls prior to the […]
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Durham Judge Marcia Morey Urges N.C. Counties to Adopt a Misdemeanor Diversion Program
On Friday afternoon, courtroom leaders and advocates from around the state gathered in Durham to hear how Durham, Orange, and Wake counties run their misdemeanor diversion programs and how they could implement programs of their own. Misdemeanor diversion programs allow young people to have a second chance at a clean record if they’ve been arrested […]
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We Asked for Elizabeth Warren. We Got Lena Dunham.
We asked to chat up Elizabeth Warren, whom we wanted to talk to about Wall Street and the general lefty unease with Hillary Clinton. We asked for a few minutes with Clinton herself, because she is running for president and we have some things we’d like to know. What the Clinton campaign gave us was […]
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Long Shots: Thomas Mills Recruited Dems to Run in Impossible Races, Then Recruited Himself
When Thomas Mills grew up in Wadesboro—a rural town in Anson County two hours southwest of Carrboro whose biggest claim to fame is that Evil Dead II was filmed there—its population numbered around four thousand. In the forty-plus years since, it’s gained only fifteen hundred more people, and over the last five years the town’s […]
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With a $1.2 Million Grant, Durham City Council Helps Save Deficit-Burdened Housing Authority
The Durham City Council is helping to ensure the Durham Housing Authority and its non-profit, real estate development partner Development Ventures Incorporated can continue to provide affordable housing for Durham residents. DHA requested a nearly $1.2 million grant from the city in order to help fund four months of administrative overhead for DVI and to […]
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The Morning Roundup: Expanded Early Voting Hours Begin Today and More Clown News
Happy Thursday, folks here’s some of today’s headlines: 1. Early voting locations expand throughout the state today. As the second week of early voting (also known as one-stop voting) begins, counties are adding more locations for early voting. In Durham, it’s ballooning from five locations to thirteen. Other counties like Forsyth County, which only had […]
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Another Solis Apartment Complex Planned for Brightleaf … About a Mile Away From Current Complex
In the latest installment of “Who Wants to Pay an Arm and a Leg to Live Downtown? ” we present Solis Brightleaf Apartments. Wait, doesn’t Solis sound familiar? Yes. It does. That’s because just more than a mile away from the proposed Solis Brightleaf is Solis Ninth Street, where you can pay up to $1,375 […]
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RTI International Refutes IACP Claims of “Material Flaw” in Durham Police Studies
On October 6, Mitchell Weinzetl, a hired consultant from the International Associations of Chiefs of Police, had no interest in sugarcoating it—he believed the racial disparity studies concerning the Durham Police Department had “material flaws.” At the time, that assertion, however, did not sit well with many members of the Durham City Council. Councilwoman Jillian […]