A dozen Triangle residents, including venture capitalists, a scientist and an artist, have donated nearly $230,000 to President Barack Obama’s inaugural committee, according to the committee’s public database. However, the committee, like the economy, is financially troubled, having raised just $27 million, little more than half of what was budgeted for the inauguration and the […]
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Score your walkability
Mercurial gas pricesagain on the riseforced many people to consider weaning themselves from their cars. That’s difficult if the nearest grocery is five miles away, the movie theater looms across an eight-lane interstate, and the coffee shop so distant you’d need to pack a lunch if you walked there. At walkscore.com, type in a street […]
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Kalkhof: No quid pro quo between DDI, Fairway
Downtown Durham, Inc. Executive Director Bill Kalkhof called the Indy today to emphasize that there is no quid pro quo between the nonprofit group and billboard company Fairway. He added that the relationship between DDI, charged with boosting downtown interests, and Fairway, which has given DDI space on its billboards, predates the current dust up […]
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Bill Kalkhof: No quid pro quo between DDI, Fairway
Downtown Durham, Inc. Executive Director Bill Kalkhof called the Indy today to emphasize that there is “no quid pro quo” between the nonprofit group and billboard company Fairway. He added that the relationship between DDI, charged with boosting downtown interests, and Fairway, which has given DDI space on its billboards, predates the current dust up […]
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County commissioners received contributions from billboard interests
County Commissioner candidate Fred Foster Jr. received a $1,602 loan from Craigie Sanders of K&L Gates (formerly known as Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman), the firm representing Fairway in the latest electronic billboard dispute. Coincidentally, Sanders also was treasurer of Foster’s unsuccessful election campaign, according to fred_foster_28apr2008. fred_foster_10july2008 The loan was repaid; Foster also received […]
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Billboard tidbits for the morning
We’re perusing public records and other notices today regarding the controversy over an proposed amendment to allow electronic billboards in Durham. First, here is the current billboard ordinance pulled from Durham’s Unified Development Ordinance. It’s 26 pages long; page 7 deals with animated and electronic signs: billboardordinance Secondly, word is that law firm K&L Gates […]
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Electronic billboard interests wooing Patrick Baker
Lawyers representing Fairway Communications, which wants to erect electronic billboards around Durham, visited City Attorney Patrick Baker today, according to an e-mail from Baker to city council members. He says the purpose of meeting was “to get more information regarding the proposal to better advise the staff and … Council regarding the legal issues in […]
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U.S. Rep. Price on enviro funding committee
U.S. Rep. David Price is on another congressional committee, this one with jurisdiction over the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department, the U.S. Forest Service and similar agencies, his congressional office reports. Price represents the Fourth Congressional District, which includes Durham, Orange and parts of Wake and Chatham counties. In addition to […]
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Listen to the Indy on the State of Things
Indy staff writer Matt Saldaña spoke with WUNC’s Frank Stasio on the State of Things today about the hocus-pocus re-drawing of the Jordan Lake boundaries. You can listen now to the archive.
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Durham public access TV gets extension
Durham public access television is staying on the air an additional month, after the Durham Committee for Community Media announces there has been a successful negotiation with Time Warner to extend a new deadline of Feb. 9. [Changed from original post, which stated the committee did the negotiating; it was primarily Durham City Attorney Patrick […]
