Expect every seat at the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners meeting to be filled Monday night when developers of the 7,000-acre Chatham Park formally present their application. The meeting is scheduled for Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. in the multipurpose room at Central Carolina Community College, 764 West St. (Editor’s note: The print version of this […]
Lisa Sorg
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This week in disappointment: the worst senators money can buy
Day to day, week to week, we knew the Legislature was a bottomless vat of purulence. But once we began amassing and assessing the damagewhoa, the mind reels. Public education? Kaput! Environmental regulations? Dead! Racial justice? Mwwwahh! Last week we listed the worst state House members; this week the Senate gets its turn. BOB RUCHO: […]
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Cookie monsters: Gov. McCrory, Blanche Taylor Moore
Sometimes a plate of cookies is not a plate of cookies, Gov. McCrory. Ask Blanche Taylor Moore. There was plenty of outrage over McCrory’s hollow—and sexist—gesture of handing a plate of cookies to women who were protesting in Raleigh over his signing of the abortion bill. But the Guv was only continuing a tradition of […]
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This week in disappointment: the worst representatives money can buy
North Carolina is now the state you want to drive around, not through. In just seven months, Republican lawmakers and their brother-in-arms, Gov. McCrory, cut unemployment benefits to the long-term jobless, slashed public education funding in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy, allowed people with conceal-carry permits to bring guns into bars (I’ll take […]
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A note from the Durham County jail
To contribute to this column, email [email protected]. One afternoon several years ago, I was meandering near a vacant lot south of the Durham County jail that had been scraped clean for the construction of the new courthouse. Scattered in the brown grass were shards of pink paper. The pattern of the tears mirrored one another […]
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Some facts about bad bats
2008 was a bad year for bats. In just three months of the Major League Baseball season, 2,280 broke and of those, 756 shattered into multiple pieces, which can be dangerous for players and spectators who could be impaled by the debris. Blame maple. At high densities, maple is stronger than ash, but at lower […]
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U.S. Justice Department announces it intends to sue states over voting rights laws
The Washington Post is reporting that the U.S. Justice Department intends to sue states to prevent them from enacting parts of new voting rights laws, including requiring specific forms of photo identification. North Carolina could be one of those states if House Bill 589 becomes law.
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David Price, G.K. Butterfield, Renee Ellmers and George Holding vote to continue NSA spying program
All but one of the Triangle’s U.S. House members voted against a measure that would have curbed the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone call records and data on people in the U.S. The vote margin was narrow, 217—205 with the majority of House members rejecting a check on NSA’s surveillance program. Among those in […]
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Play the N.C. Voter ID game!
In the waning days of the legislative session, the General Assembly is tackling a key tenet of democracy: voting. And by tackling we mean pummeling, trouncing and mowing it down. It’s the political version of the New Orleans Saints’ bounty program, in which players earned bonuses for grievously injuring members of the opposing team. In […]
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This week in disappointment: voting rights take a hit
Did you play the N.C. Voter ID game? If so, then you have an idea of the malice contained in House Bill 589. House Bill 589, named “VIVA,” which, ironically, means “life” in Spanish, the bill would kill the fairness of North Carolina elections. Democracy North Carolina has an excellent analysis of the bill. In […]
