What not to say at the airport “There are two pounds of C-4 in there, be careful …” a passenger joking while checking bags at the Lubbock, Texas, airport. He was arrested and the airport was closed for two hours. 33 guns were seized at all U.S. airports, July 19–25 24 were loaded 8 were […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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Pittsboro commissioners reviewing Chatham Park for rezoning
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 […]
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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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Happy anniversary, Fayetteville Street
On July 29, 2006, cars traveled down Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh for the first time in 30 years. The conversion of the former pedestrian mall to a busy thoroughfareRaleigh’s equivalent of Main Streetmarked a turning point in the city’s history. In the past seven years, City Plaza, the Raleigh Convention Center, Red Hat Amphitheater […]
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The launch of fall election season
Election season is upon usno, sadly, not the one in which we vote out the bums on Jones Street, but races for city councils and commissions, mayors and school boards. Either by design or by happenstance, quirks in North Carolina election law make voting in odd-numbered years cumbersome. It’s important to know who’s running and […]
