Could a progressive woman replace an old white guy in Congress? Stranger things have happened. Like a youngish African-American man replacing an old white guy in the White House. U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, a Republican whose gerrymandered 6th District runs from Greensboro and through the northern part of Durham County to north of Raleigh along […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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When 11 feet, 4 inches is not enough
The INDY is preparing to move its Durham office from Roxboro and Pettigrew streets to the center of downtown, next to the American Underground across from the SunTrust building. We’ll miss many aspects of the Venable building: the sunsets blazing through the kitchen window; in the parking lot, the murder of crows weighing down the […]
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A library card. MONEY! Permission to go on X-Box Live
It’s six weeks until Christmas, and already the department stores are suffocating us in faux fir trees, garland and holiday music. (How do you celebrate the winter holidays when the pumpkins on the porch haven’t rotted yet?) I remember as a kid for several years poring through the glossy Sears Christmas catalog and the Montgomery […]
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A gospel brass band pops up in Durham’s Five Points
An editor’s blog or column is historically a place for a publication to express its institutional voice on pressing issues. Yet unlike the INDY‘s Bob Geary, whose Citizen columns are compelling and insightful, that is not my calling. But I am a storyteller and an insatiable flaneur, a French word that originally meant strolleror less […]
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N.C. Supreme Court to review Chapel Hill towing, cell phone ordinances
Two controversial Chapel Hill ordinances—towing and mobile phones—will go before the N.C. Supreme Court, the town announced late Friday. Meanwhile, a temporary stay and court injunction prevents the town from enforcing either ordinance. The towing ordinance, which was to take effect in May 2012, requires that private tow zones be adequately marked with signage, that […]
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Museum committee ousts embattled scientist/blogger Bora Zivkovic
Bora Zivkovic was removed from the board of the Friends of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences today, according to a member of the executive committee. Zivkovic did not attend the meeting; moreover he had not been to one since 2011. Rather than spending time deliberating Zivkovic’s recent issues regarding sexual harassment without his input, […]
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Sexual harassment, Super PACs and fracking
Bora Zivkovic, the fallen former blog editor of Scientific American should know today whether he still has a seat on the board of the Friends of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. The board’s executive committee is expected to meet today about Zivkovic, who admitted to sexually inappropriate advances toward several women who […]
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Guess Who’s bored in Cary? The Cops.
With no reported murders in 2012, Cary is ranked as America’s safest city among those with populations of 100,000–499,999, according to FBI statistics. Last year, the town reported 14.4 crimes per 1,000 people. Naperville, Ill., the setting for Female Forces, a reality show featuring women police officers, came in second. Cary has 161 male officers […]
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Bow hunting legal; panhandling illegal
“You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it’s all about. A deer’s gotta be taken with one shot.” The Deer Hunter Next fall, hunters can use bows and arrows to shoot deer on private property within the Durham city limits. The practice was legalized Monday night after Durham City Council voted […]
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Davis and Moffitt win in Durham
What does $47,000 buy in Durham politics? Apparently very little, about 13,000 votes. Despite support from a Greensboro-based Super PAC, Omar Beasley and Pam Karriker lost their bids for seats on Durham City Council. As the INDY reported earlier this week, the N.C. Homeowners Alliance, a Super PAC with ties to the N.C. Association of […]
