Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
Inspection reports Download the Neighborhood Improvement Services inspection reports for Lincoln Apartments On a recent chilly Thursday evening, about 15 residents of Lincoln Apartments sat in folding chairs and met in a parking lot outside their housing complex. Rap music thumped from a nearby apartment; kids rode their bicycles down the street. People in upstairs […]
Over the next two months, watch for a run on moving boxes in Raleigh. Elections signal a transitional time in state government, as staffers leave their jobs and look for new places to land. Philanthropy Journal has scooped up Jill Lucas, the soon-to-be former communications director for the N.C. Department of Administration. She has been […]
In one week, approximately 200 low-income residents including children, families, the elderly and the disabled will be evicted from their homes where some of them have lived for more than a quarter-century. The property owner, the nonprofit Lincoln Hospital Foundation, says it can no longer afford the utilities and upkeep on the dozen or so […]
We may not be in binders, but we are in ballot boxes: If trends in 2008 and 2010 elections hold, more women than men will vote in North Carolina this fall. According to a report, “The Status of Women in North Carolina,” released by the N.C. Department of Administration, in 2010 47 percent of women […]
Photo by Jeremy M. LangeYep Roc founders, from left, Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen After Night 1 of the Yep Roc 15th anniversary festival at Cat’s Cradle, my husband and I were walking to the car, exchanging notes on the five-hour show, when he compared the scrappy indie label to the Oakland Raiders. In the […]
The Refectory Cafe 2726 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. Durham 919-908-6798 Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m. Saturday–Sunday 9 a.m.–3 p.m. For several years, The Refectory Cafe, ensconced at Duke University with locations at the divinity and law schools, felt like a secret Shangri-La where vegan dal flowed from the water fountains and freshly baked bread hovered like thought […]
Nearly three weeks after residents of Lincoln Apartments learned they would be forced out of their homes on Halloween, there is a lot that doesn’t add up: Residents who say they paid their rent in cash but only occasionally got a receipt. Leases that were written and then, just weeks later, rewritten under different and […]
This is the story of Lincoln Apartments as Southern Real Estate Management & Consultants tells it: The majority of the 50-plus households at the low-income housing community don’t pay rent, or if they do, it’s late. And without rent collections, the real estate company can’t pay its bills and must evict all the residents, effective […]
Reliable Cheese Co., which sells artisan cheeses and meats from its cozy storefront at 405 E. Chapel Hill St. in Durham, is closing Friday, Oct. 19, according to an announcement in its weekly newsletter. Patrick Coleff opened the store in the summer of 2011. In the Indy‘s profile of Coleff, the Brooklyn expat discussed one […]
Bloggers, reporters and people interested in politics are invited to “How to Be an Election Watchdog,” scheduled for 11 this morning in Room 339 of the Farrison-Newton Communications Building at N.C. Central University in Durham. Learn about major voting problems that could emerge this year, how to uncover campaign donors and “shadow money” spending and […]
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