Littering is so 1972. Yet, people still toss their cups, cheeseburger wrappers and “trucker bombs” along the road (if you’re unfamiliar with the latter, look it up on the Net). Even using prison labor to collect trash, there’s more garbage on North Carolina highways than can be picked up. And this is where you can […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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This is your newspaper
One sultry night last August, my husband and I arrived in Durham nearly comatose after traveling 1,600 miles in a CruiseAmerica RV. Yet, the move from Texas to North Carolina was a welcome one: We were relieved to see tall trees rather than scrub, to feel rain on our skin instead of relentless sun, to […]
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Love Canal activist comes to Alamance
In 1978, Lois Gibbs did the unthinkable: She took on a powerful chemical company and local, state and federal officials over Love Canal, a leaking former toxic waste dump near Niagara Falls, N.Y. Only when President Jimmy Carter stepped in two years later did the feds relocate the 900 familiesmany of whom had experienced cancer, […]
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N.C. Grassroots Impeachment Movement
As recently as a year ago, few people, except hardcore critics of the Bush administration, would say the “I” word. Yet recent polls show that 54 percent of Americans surveyed support the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney; 48 percent favor impeaching President George W. Bush. In comparison, when President Richard Nixon faced impeachment in […]
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Virtual swap meet
So you’ve finished the 759-page Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now what? Stick it on your sagging bookshelf to gather dust? Use it for bicep curls? Swap it instead. At Swaptree.com, you can trade books, DVDs, CDs, video gamesfor free. Trading partially offsets environmental costs of printing millions of new books and discs, in […]
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No-kill shelters defend practices
A car pulls into the driveway at The Haven, a private, no-kill animal shelter in Raeford. A woman gets out of the car and hands Director Linden Spears a gray and white kitten. She signs papers surrendering ownership while her children watch. “Single mother of three,” says Spears, who founded the shelter in 1996. “She […]
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Special ed at forefrontagainin Chapel Hill
The quality of special education continues to be a sore point within the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, where parents likely will air their grievances at an upcoming school board meeting. On Aug. 9, the city school board and Superintendent Neil Pederson will address a study commissioned by the district last fall to examine problems within the […]
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Use of gassing challenged
As state policymakers propose tightening restrictions on the use of carbon monoxide gas to put homeless companion animals to death, opponents of the practice say it is inhumane under any circumstancesand note that North Carolina’s main promoter of the method has an apparent conflict of interest. Thirty-eight counties use the controversial yet legal method of […]
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North Carolina on the road to renewables
North Carolina is on the verge of becoming the first southeastern state to have a renewable energy standard portfolio after the House passed Senate Bill 3 July 31. The Senate approved the measure July 3. The bill must be ratified or signed by Gov. Mike Easley to become law. Some environmental groups, such as the […]
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Biotech or biohazard?
Smallpox could be coming to Butner. Or anthrax. Or Rift Valley fever, which is passed from infected animals and biting insects to humans. It can cause its victims’ brains to swell and their organs to hemorrhage. Then they die. These are among the diseases that could be studied at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, […]
