Last month, a Sprint representative 10 time zones away called to entice me to add more phones to my service plan. What a deal: More phones mean more opportunities for the telecom company to snag my conversations in an unconstitutional dragnet. I fired back via a Web-based form: “I don’t want Sprint to do warrantless […]
Lisa Sorg
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Indy garners seven awards
My favorite moment during the Academy Awards occurred when musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won an Oscar for Best Original Song, “Falling Slowly” from the film Once. Not only is that achievement remarkable for independent music, but also for the movie, which was made in three weeks with two Handicams and a $100,000 budget. […]
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Cuba’s destiny
Our plates overflowed with fruit, rice and mystery meat; our glasses brimmed with rum. Guests of the Cuban government, we had ridden a rickety, closet-sized elevator to the top floor of a darkened building for a gala reception that entailed hours of toasts and speeches by Communist Party bureaucrats. I peered out the window. Ten […]
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Business and pleasure at NCCU
Franklin Carver likes to spend money on bedding, barbecueand on occasion, a little something for the lady in his life. Using his employer’s credit card, the former N.C. Central University assistant provost bought personal items such as groceries, music, home improvement supplies, movie tickets and women’s apparel, including items at Priscilla’s, a women’s lingerie store […]
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NBAF opponents confront Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security officials were strafed with dozens of questions during Thursdays three-hour town hall meeting on the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility. Yet the six-month debate over whether Butner is an appropriate site for the disease-research lab boils down to one question: Can Homeland Security be trusted to protect people and the […]
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All Creatures’ animals removed
Where for years there was the sound of incessant barking, it is now silent. Last week, the remaining dogs and cats were removed from All Creatures Great and Small, a no-kill shelter in Hendersonville, which was closed by the N.C. Department of Agriculture for repeatedly violating the Animal Welfare Act. More than 500 animals once […]
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Right to left
In my high school yearbook, there is a picture of a 15-year-old girl discussing President Ronald Reagan’s new administration. The caption reads in part, “…taxes will be cut, the government deficit will be decreased and our country will again be a world power.” I was that girl. There, I admit it. I was a teenage […]
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The ban is no bargain
When the fast-food restaurant supervisor reached up my shirt, I firmly told him no. A week later, embarrassed, I quit my job. He kept his. I was just 22 and didn’t know my rights. I could have used the backing of a labor union. I needed a union when I showed up for my shift […]
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Ballot access battle
Attention Republicans and Democrats: You’re still in power. After a year of litigation, the Green and Libertarian parties are still mired in a lawsuit over the number of signatures required for third parties to be listed on the North Carolina ballot. Last week, Superior Court Judge Leon Stanback Jr. told the small but packed Wake […]
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Bio lab debate goes on tour
With less than nine months before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security decides where to site its disease research lab, proponents and opponents of the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility continue to plead their cases before government leaders and the business community. Butner is among five national finalists for NBAF, as it’s known, which […]