Cash and Fat Mamma, Angel and Diesel: They are among the more than 100 dogs who can securely roam in their yards without the jerk of a chain or the burn of a rope. Durham’s Coalition to Unchain Dogs, which helped free them, builds fences around properties, with the homeowners’ permission, so the pets don’t […]
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Animal euthanasia rules languish over language
When it comes to the law, words like “humanely” and “geriatric” are loadedso loaded that North Carolina’s proposed euthanasia rules have become snagged in semantics, languishing for more than a year. Meanwhile, a recent accident involving a gas chamber in Iredell County is further emboldening animal rights groups to pressure policymakers to outlaw euthanasia by […]
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Durham Commissioners nix NBAF
The next coffin nail was hammered into the proposed National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Monday night when Durham County Commissioners voted 4-1 to oppose the federal disease lab that could be sited in Butner. The commission also took a stronger step of passing a resolution to draft a letter to the N.C. Consortium, which […]
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John Edwards, the gambler
When John Edwards finally confirmed that he had stepped out on his wife, initially I was disappointed, but not surprised. Power + overblown ego = misguided sense of invincibility x lack of caring for others. As for Elizabeth Edwards, I thought, Jesus, hasnt she been through enough. As for the other woman, well, shes just […]
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Mad Men: When a smoke was a smoke and advertising was earnest
Mad Men American Movie Classics Sundays at 10 p.m. I want a black Cadillac with fins like a shark. I want a shot of Seagram’s in the calm hour after a rough day. I want to take a long drag on a short Camel to soothe my T zone; there’ll be no irritation, four out […]
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NBAF supporter says no thanks to funding
Less than a month after receiving $262,000 in funding, Norris Tolson, president and CEO of the N.C. Biotechnology Center, has announced the Center is rejecting the free money from the Golden LEAF Foundation that would have been used to “educate the public” about the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The federal disease research lab could […]
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38 questions for Homeland Security
After nearly a year, many questions posed by Raleighs Public Utilities Department about a proposed federal disease lab remain unanswered. This is despite assurances from federal Department of Homeland Security officials that they would be addressed in the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on the National Agro and Bio-Defense Facility, which could be sited in […]
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The past in present tense
About 25 years ago, one of my classmates came to high school dressed in his Ku Klux Klan robesans the pointy hat. Being in Indiana, where the KKK had a stranglehold on state government in the 1920s and, even today, lingers like ringworm, the kid was not expelled, suspended or, as far as I knew, […]
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Public meeting is the last on disease lab
“We’ve all seen the same moviesa government lab in your backyard. Movies with conspiracy theories. It sounds scary.” Comparing the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to a horror flick: That’s how U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman John Verrico tried to appease concerns about the federal disease laboratory that could be built in Butner. However, […]
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Big dough goes to NBAF PR
In the few months before the Department of Homeland Security announces where it will build a controversial, $450 million federal disease research lab, proponents in the five contending states, including North Carolina, are trying to outspend, outbid and out-promise the others in hopes of landing the project. The financial stakes got higher Tuesday, when the […]