The New York Times today reports that three coal ash waste sites in North Carolina have contaminated water, two of them with possible risk to human. The Times’ story follows the fly ash disaster in eastern Tennessee in which a containment pond gave way resulting in a billion gallons of toxic sludge covering waterways, land […]
Lisa Sorg
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Eureka! A low-mercury light bulb
By now, you likely know the buzz on compact fluorescent light bulbs: They use 75 percent less energy and can last more than five times longer than incandescent bulbs. The energy savingsand potential reduction in greenhouse gas emissionshave prompted several state and local governments, including North Carolina, to consider phasing out the sale of incandescents […]
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You oughta know: The big federal contractors in the Triangle
Federal contractors in the Triangle did work or provided services worth more than $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2008, according to usaspending.gov. Congressional District 4, which includes Durham, Orange and slices of Wake and Chatham counties, led the way, accounting for about half of the federal contracting dollars. U.S. Rep. David Price represents the district, […]
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You oughta know: inaugural committee donors
Triangle residents have contributed nearly $230,000 to Barack Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee, according to the committee’s public database. Wendell McCain of Parish Capital Advisors in Chapel Hill donated $25,000; Raleigh businessman John Crumpler of Hatteras Venture Partners in RTP and venture capitalist Steve Lerner of FGI Research in Chapel Hill contributed donor bundles of $100,000 […]
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Durham nursing home closes after state investigation
In the official investigation reports, to protect their privacy they are referred to only by number: Resident No. 2, No. 6, No. 8 and so on. But they are people, once patients at Forest View Rehabilitation Center in Durham. They are people who were not given even Tylenol to alleviate the pain from deep, penetrating […]
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Indy’s Coleman on WUNC
Indy staff writer Vernal Coleman will be on WUNC’s State of Things today to discuss either his story on Durham’s faulty police surveillance camera system or the state of labor unions; it’s a little unclear. Listen anyway: It airs at noon at 91.5 FM, or via live stream on WUNC.
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Regulators green-light Shearon Harris–for another 38 years
Those of you within striking distance of the Shearon Harris nuke plant, don’t toss those potassium iodide pills. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved Progress Energy‘s request to extend the plant’s operating license of through 2046, according to the Triangle Business Journal. The Indy has long reported on the problems at Shearon Harris, from fire […]
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A day without media
Pick a day, say Jan. 21, 2009, and imagine that nearly all journalism will vanish. Local newspapers are kaput, having disappeared from street boxes and the racks at your favorite lunch spot. Turn on the NPR stations, and you hear nothing but static. The TV, well there’s always TV. Oops, too bad, its broadcast has […]
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Chatham peeved over Durham vote on Jordan Lake
Chatham County Commissioners are appealing to the state’s Division of Water Quality to retain the current boundaries of Jordan Lake, according to an Indy story posted this evening. The resolution comes after Durham County Commissioners voted to keep a developer’s self-serving survey that would allow him to build a mega-project, the 751 Assemblage, near the […]
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More bad news for Southpoint owner
General Growth Properties, which owns Southpoint Mall in Durham and about 200 other malls throughout the U.S., has been downgraded by Fitch Ratings, reports the Florida Business Journal. That means a default may be imminent. On Dec. 1, the Journal reports, the company had received a two-week extension on $900 million in mortgage loans that […]
