As if you don’t have enough summertime ailments to worry aboutLyme disease from the ticks, melanoma from the sun, food poisoning from the green bean casserole with cream of mushroom soup that your Aunt Gladys brought to the family reunionnow add chlorinated swimming pools to the risk list. According to research published in Swimming Science […]
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The McHelms campaign
If you thought a “McBush” presidency was frightening, look at the connections between John McCain and Jesse Helms. A McHelms administration? Get thee to the passport office. Sources: Institute for Southern Studies, The Nation, The News & Observer, Project Vote Smart, Center for Responsive Politics, Rightwingwatch.org, John McCain campaign, Mother Jones, The New York Times, […]
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Tom Petty in Raleigh
However crusty, my Sunday morning following the mighty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers show in Raleigh likely pales to those of my fellow fans after Saturday nights’ heat-soaked, two-hour concert: There was the young woman lying unconscious, pooled in the lap of her friend, for instance, and the 60-something dude, undoubtedly crestfallen after dancing with […]
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Anti-bullying bill still mired in language issues
Shortly before the Senate version of the anti-bullying bill went down in flames Wednesday afternoon, a fiery state Rep. Paul Stam (R-Wake) dared his House colleagues: “Tell me what’s wrong with the Senate version of the bill. Tell me one word you don’t like.” The House, signaling to Stam it wants to send the bill […]
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$10 million in spin
Leaders of the N.C. Association of Realtors, those expert parsers of words and shaders of meaning, have announced their latest benevolent campaign: The powerful lobbying and trade group will direct $10 million into a “special advocacy fund designed to educate the public on key issues.” Translation: It will spend $10 million on spin. For example, […]
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In living color
It is fitting that the Pink Triangle issue is the Indy‘s first to run in full color. While that change may seem cosmetic, it signals a gradual transformation of our print edition into a publication more akin to a magazine. Over the next several months, the print edition of the Indy will focus more on […]
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Homeland Security releases key NBAF documents
The Bush administration usually waits until Fridays to make big announcementsand last week was no exception. On June 20, the Department of Homeland Security issued the long-awaited draft environmental impact statement for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, a key document in deciding where the federal disease research lab will be located. Butner is […]
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Note to self: Don’t download porn at work
Read the auditor’s reports: NCCU (PDF, 4.7 MB) NCSU (PDF, 3.5 MB) Two N.C. Central employees and one N.C. State employee either resigned or have been fired after admitting to state investigators that they illegally downloaded music, photos and movies, some of which were pornographic, on work computers, according to a state auditor’s report released […]
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Durham’s Voorhees finalist for Maryland city manager post
Durham Deputy City Manager Ted Voorhees is a finalist for the city manager position in Gaithersburg, Md., according to officials there. Angel Jones of Eugene, Ore., is the other finalist. Voorhees, who has been Durham’s Deputy City Manager since 2002, is one of 11 applicants for the post; six were chosen for interviews. He is […]
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Chapel Hill OKs voter-owned elections
Kevin Wolff paid for a political ad valued at nearly $1,400 to defeat voter-owned elections in Chapel Hilland that campaign went much like his two unsuccessful bids for mayor. Chapel Hill Town Council members voted 8-1 in favor of a pilot program for publicly financed elections at Monday night’s meeting, a day after Wolff’s half-page […]