Michael Stipe, sweat-soaked but dapper in a blue suit and tie, paused during Tuesday night’s show in Raleigh to inspect the crowd of more than 10,000: “For how many people is this your first R.E.M. concert?” Nearly half the people in the pavilion raised their hands. “How many people were born after 1980?” About a […]
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View larger map at Google.com • View JPG (324 KB) • View PDF (1.1 MB) The forlorn shopping cart: Borrowed, perhaps, by someone who is carless and has to lug home a week’s worth of groceries, or haul dirty clothes to the Laundromat. In college, I once purloined a cart (from a Hook’s drug store, […]
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Durham rep requests $25 million for NBAF
Call it a family favor. State Rep. W.A. “Winkie” Wilkins, a Democrat representing Durham and Person counties, has introduced a bill that would appropriate $25 million to Granville County for infrastructure related to the National Bio and Agro Defense Facilityshould it be sited in Butner. Wilkins’ brother, Mike Wilkins, is the vice president of statewide […]
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Judge rules against Libs, Greens
Political parties don’t have a fundamental right to appear on the North Carolina ballot, according to a judge’s ruling today. (Read the order: PDF, 116 KB.) Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood ruled against the Libertarian and Green parties, which had sued the State Board of Elections, contending the signature requirements to get on […]
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NBAF lambasted in Congress
The Department of Homeland Security withheld documents about the proposed National Bio and Agro Defense Facility from congressional members and investigators, prompting a House committee chairman to call its actions “unacceptable and grossly improper.” U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, lambasted the agency, stating “I want to know why […]
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Problems at plant prompt skepticism
The state has fined a southern Granville County wastewater treatment plant more than $27,000 in the last five years, prompting local citizens to question its discharge permit, which is up for renewal. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources levied the fines for several violations including extraordinarily high levels of mercury in water leaving […]
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Blessed are the wealthy
Among talk of whos blessed to be flush with cash and whos not, Chapel Hills proposed plan for voter-owned elections received substantial support from citizens and most town council members at a May 14 public hearing. (Read the proposal, PDF, 31 KB.) Town Council will consider the citizen input, then vote on the ordinance June […]
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We’re the punishers
For the 112 undocumented immigrants attending a North Carolina community college, Tuesday was a dark day. That’s when Community College System President R. Scott Ralls caved to N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, whose office had advised the state’s 58 community colleges to bar undocumented immigrants from enrolling in degree programs. Congratulations, North Carolina. We can […]
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Chapel Hill weighs publicly financed elections
Chapel Hill Town Councilwoman Sally Greene was attending a meeting of the Public Housing Program Advisory Board last summer when a board member, perusing the list of council members’ names on the agenda, told Greene, “I’d like to see my name there.” “I told her how to run a campaign and wished her luck,” Greene […]
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$25 million could go to NBAF
North Carolina taxpayers could chip in $25 million for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, a federal disease research lab proposed for Butner. State Rep. Jim Crawford, a Democrat representing Granville and Vance counties, says officials from the N.C. Biotechnology Center, which is a member of the state consortium lobbying to bring the facility […]
