Mark your calendars–again: A panel of three federal judges ruled last week that North Carolina’s primary election will occur as scheduled May 6. Several Republicans, including two former North Carolina lawmakers, have sued the State Board of Elections alleging the current legislative district boundaries are unconstitutional. They sought a preliminary injunction to delay the primary […]
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Raleigh to chime in on NBAF
Wake County residents will have an opportunity to comment on the federal National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, proposed for a site just five miles north of Falls Lake, Raleigh’s primary source of drinking water. Raleigh City Council is holding a public hearing Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. at the council’s chambers, 222 W. […]
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Crashing the party
Attention Republicans and Democrats: Youre still in power. A lawsuit over the number of signatures required for third parties to be listed on the North Carolina ballot will go to trial later this spring. Superior Court Judge Leon Stanback Jr. told the small, but packed Wake County courtroom that personally I think 5,000 or 10,000 […]
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Orange County: An expensive worst-case scenario
For its water supply, Orange County depends on what falls from the sky, and what’s fallen from the sky in the past year has largely been sunshine. Even with Orange County’s conservation efforts, widely considered more proactive than those of their neighbors to the east, the reservoirs are now at just 40 percent of capacity, […]
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Tread lightly
One hundred years ago, Horace Williams worked his Chapel Hill farm, vast swaths of fertile pasture and wooded acreage now eyed by UNC for its ambitious 1,000-acre Carolina North project. Around the same time, James Shepard led the recently chartered N.C. Central University. It became the southern node of Durham’s vibrant Hayti neighborhood, now targeted […]
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A Bell-Obama mash-up
On Tuesday, Jan. 22, Durham Mayor Bill Bell delivered his State of the City Address. Since the Indy‘s deadline fell before the event, I imagined what presidential candidate Barack Obama would have said had he given the speech. You know, they said this day would never come. They said Durham would never run out of […]
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Judges to rule Friday on May 6 primary
A panel of three federal judges is scheduled to meet Friday, Jan. 25, at 10 a.m. at the federal courthouse in New Bern to determine if North Carolina’s May 6 primary will proceed as scheduled. A lawsuit filed by former State Board of Elections chairman Bob Hunter, former state Rep. Frank Mitchell, a Republican from […]
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Protesters to get their say
In October, Meredith College campus police clamped down on demonstrators at a speech by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, confiscating their anti-war, anti-Bush leaflets and exiling them to a distant “free speech zone,” where it was unlikely students would encounter them. (See “Muzzled at Meredith,” Nov. 7, 2007.) In response, Professor Michael McElreath, sponsor […]
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Beggars and choosers
Panhandlers, if not aggressive, don’t offend me. Although I rarely give them money, I will buy them a cup of coffee, lunch or a small bag of groceries. And on the whole, I prefer them to mainstream Slick Willies who try to come between me and my money: telemarketers, politicians, casinos, the N.C. Education Lottery, […]
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A new year, renewed opposition
Impeachment debate: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to an historic event of this young century. In the tradition of the Stephen Douglas-Abraham Lincoln debates, two men will discuss the principles in issue that show the deep feeling which pervades the public mind in regard to the question dividing us. President George W. Bush and Vice President […]
