Mix business and pleasure at the beach next week, when the state Senate Subcommittee on Offshore Energy Exploration holds a public comment session on, yeah, you guessed it, drilling for oil and natural gas off the North Carolina coast. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, at UNC-Wilmington, Computer Information Systems Building, Room 1008. […]
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The Wake GOP’s Chosen Ones
Sometimes a group’s endorsements can clue voters in on whom not to vote for. (Yes, we know, there are readers who use the Indy‘s endorsements for just that purpose. No offense taken, but don’t blame us when you’re peeved about your elected officials.) The Wake County Republican Party’s executive committee has issued its endorsements for […]
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Elections ’09, the ultimate (sur)reality show: ‘Worlds Apart’ contestant among new candidates
If elections are the ultimate (sur)reality show, Susana L. Dancy, who filed for Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board, is qualified to at least run for office. In Season 1 of the Fox Reality TV show, ‘Worlds Apart,” Dancy, her husband, Jim Rogalski, and their three children, Marshall, Taylor and Helen, ‘are transplanted from their pristine new […]
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Mayor Chilton has competition in Carrboro
There are 24 hours left until the deadline for candidates to file for the 2009 election, so expect a last-minute trickle of additional names on the ballots. Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton has a challenger, Amanda Ashley, who, according to her MySpace page, is a Wiccan feminist graphic artist. She works at Phydeaux. Three incumbents have […]
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Pay attention: Senate Bill 700
While most political observers are watching the state budget process, an important environmental bill has been winding through the legislature with little fanfare. On July 14, there were testy exchanges in a House Judiciary committee meeting between proponents and opponents of Senate Bill 700, which amends the 1997 Dry Cleaning Solvent Act. The primary solvent […]
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Can’t we just let the candidates cage fight?
With just three days left in candidate filing for the 2009 election, expect fireworks in the Wake County school board race and watch mayoral contests in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Durham and Pittsboroif not for civic duty, then for entertainment value. Mayors Chapel Hill is in its first year holding voter-owned elections for council and mayoral […]
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Durham Public Access Studio holds open house today
Last fall, it appeared Durham would lose its public access TV channel, potentially closing an avenue for community voices. With the help of dozens of volunteers, benefactors and The Peoples Channel in Chapel Hill, not only has the channel been resurrected, but the Durham Media Center is expanding. (Read Fiona Morgan’s coverage for the Indy.) […]
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Day 5 of candidate filings: Bell has a challenger; North Hills GM running for Raleigh Council
With one week down for the 2009 election candidate filings, Durham Mayor Bill Bell has a challenger, Steve Williams, a Durham native who grew up in Walltown, and graduated from St. Augustine’s College, where he received a track-and-field scholarship. His platform, which is listed on his Web site, includes crime, economic development, the environment, housing […]
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Billboard interests try to woo Durham Crime Cabinet
This post was updated at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 11. Like an itinerant preacher, Patrick Byker has scoured nearly every corner of Durham proselytizing the gospel according to Fairway Outdoor Advertising: That billboards are selfless benefactors for communities and add to the common good. So it’s not surprising that on his tour to convince Durham […]
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Anti- and pro-Obama activists clash in Raleigh
Jaymes Powell reports for the Indy about a clash in Raleigh between pro-Obama and anti-Obama activists. Dozens of protesters, arguing everything from President Obama’s health care plan to even race, verbally clashed outside of the United States Federal Courthouse in Downtown Raleigh Thursday afternoon and were separated by city police. The liberal group MoveOn.org organized […]
