Is that the sound of a cash register? First term Chapel Hill Town Councilman Matt Czajkowski has filed for mayor of Chapel Hill; like fellow mayoral candidate Augustus Cho, he has not opted to participate in the voter-owned election program, allowing them to raise large sums for their campaigns. Czajkowski loaned himself more than $17,000 […]
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New wildlife clinic to replace Piedmont’s
Four days after the Piedmont Wildlife Center closed its clinic, a new one has formed to care for sick, orphaned and injured animals. Triangle Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic will launch in early August at 1417 Seaton Road in Durham, the same location as the former Piedmont hospital. As Rebekah Cowell reported in the Indy this week, […]
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Dear N.C. State Fair: We’d like to fill your Oct. 22 slot
The N.C. State Fair announced its lineup earlier this week, and there’s good news: Tickets are recession-cheap, ranging from $5 for several shows to $15 for Third Day. So much for The Beatitudes: Religion is expensive, y’all. There’s bad news, too: The lineup isn’t very good. While WRAL trots out the local connections of the […]
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Day three begins for candidate filings
Two days down, eight to go: Candidate filing for the 2009 election opened Monday, with candidates seeking the top spot as Chapel Hill mayor and duels brewing in Durham Ward 2 and on the Wake County school board. In Raleigh Council District D, incumbent Thomas Crowder is expected to run against architect Ted Van Dyk, […]
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Local greenhouse gas emissions rising
On Durham’s streets and highways, you can see contrails streaming from thousands of tailpipes. In neighborhoods, you can hear the hum of air conditioners as they suck electricity from the grid. And somewhere, coal is being mined, transported and then burned, to power the lights, computers and machines in offices and factories. While Congress grapples […]
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Mayoral filings: Czajkowski in Chapel Hill, Bell in Durham
Is that the sound of a cash register? First term Chapel Hill Town Councilman Matt Czajkowski has filed for mayor of Chapel Hill; like fellow mayoral candidate Augustus Cho, he has not opted to participate in the voter-owned election program, allowing them to raise large sums for their campaigns. Czajkowski loaned himself more than $17,000 […]
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GM spells car trouble
I was conceived in a turquoise 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, the same car whose tail fins and chrome framed my parents in a wedding photograph and that, nine months later, rushed my laboring mother to the hospital. I was born in Anderson, Ind., about a mile away from one of the town’s General Motors plants. […]
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Triangle candidate filings trickle in
Two days down, eight to go: Candidate filing for the 2009 election opened Monday, with candidates seeking the top spot as Chapel Hill mayor and duels brewing in Durham Ward 2 and on the Wake County school board. In Raleigh Council District D, incumbent Thomas Crowder is expected to run against architect Ted Van Dyk, […]
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Piedmont Wildlife Center closes today
The Piedmont Wildlife Center in Durham has announced its closing today, due to a lack of money. According to its most recent tax return available, piedmont-2007 the nonprofit group had $367,000 in revenue and $365,000 in expenses. Most of its income came from public donations. Look for a followup story in the print edition of […]
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EPA rates 12 N.C. coal residue impoundments with a “high hazard potential”
North Carolina is home to ore than a quarter of the nation’s coal combustion residue (CCR) impoundments that carry a “high hazard potential rating,” meaning that if the impoundment failed, it would probably cause loss of human life. This is according to an Environmental Protection Agency report released today, which designated 12 North Carolina coal […]
