Before too much of Durham falls to the wrecking ball, I’ve begun documenting the intersections, the friction points, if you will, where old and new developments meet. A locally owned grocery, the Durham Coop Market, I would argue, is a positive development, although I miss the purple-and-yellow awning of the Noah’s Ark Daycare and the […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
Posted inSoapboxer
Who’s in the fishbowl now? A view from Main and Corcoran streets in Durham
Life, already interesting at Main and Corcoran streets, is about to become even more so. Yesterday, contractors began conducting soil borings in the lawn next to the Green Wall, in preparation for the 26-story skyscraper, scheduled to start construction on the lot next year. There was also a guy in his 60s sitting on the […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Displaced by Durham development, Blue Coffee moving to Church Street
Downtown durham was just waking up when Gwen Mathews unlocked the dead bolt on the front door of the Blue Coffee Cafe. She turned on the lights. This was her restaurant now, the former owners having closed it on the previous Friday. After 22 years of working for someone else, of traveling for her job […]
Posted inNews
Veteran’s Day factoid: 157 members of military have become U.S. citizens in North Carolina this year
It’s Veteran’s Day, and this morning 10 servicemen and women will become naturalized U.S. citizens under a federal program launched in 2001. The special ceremony starts at 10:15 a.m. at the Durham County Human Services Building, 414 E. Main St. Under the program, which started after the 9/11 attacks, non-citizen military members and veterans—and their […]
Posted inNews
John Rhodes: Now the guy with 32 U.S. Senate votes
Official write-in candidate for U.S. Senate John Rhodes increased his vote tally by 23 since last Thursday. That’s when the INDY reported that the former state representative from Mecklenburg County, who ran as a “constitutional conservative” to the right of eventual winner Thom Tillis, had garnered just nine votes, none of them apparently cast by […]
Posted inNews
Apply by Nov. 19 for vacant Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board seat
If you’ve ever wanted to serve on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education, but didn’t want to deal with an election campaign, here’s your chance. Mia Burroughs is resigning from the board on Nov. 30 to serve on the Orange County Commission. She was elected to the seat on Tuesday. The board is […]
Posted inNews, Housing
300 more apartments coming to downtown Durham—and none of them for us peasants
We finally cleared the election haze from our eyes yesterday and read in the Triangle Business Journal that the Hendrick Durham Auto Mall property is being sold and converted into a mixed-use development with 308 luxury apartments—luxury meaning not affordable for us peasants who work downtown or would like to live in the city center. […]
Posted inNews
John Rhodes: The guy with nine U.S. Senate votes
Where did John Rhodes’ friends go? The Facebook page for the John Rhodes U.S. Senate campaign has 386 likes, but he received just nine votes in the election. A former Republican turned constitutional conservative—that term might get him points in a high school history class, but it’s just code for tea partier—Rhodes was the only […]
Posted inNews
In Wake County, Gale Adcock holds on over Tom Murry for N.C. House
As is common in races with Tom Murry, this one was ugly. Mailers with doctored photos, false claims of endorsements by the teacher’s union, Murry, a Republican, tried every trick to win his third term to the statehouse. It worked in 2010 and 2012. This time, he may have failed. If the margin sticks, Gale […]
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Possible recount in Cheri Beasley-Mike Robinson race for supreme court
Early this morning, the State Board of Elections announced that the margin between Cheri Beasley and Mike Robinson was close enough to trigger a North Carolina law that provides for an automatic right to a recount in any statewide race when the margin is less than 0.5 percent or 10,000 votes, whichever is lower. According […]
