State Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, a long-time advocate for North Carolinians who were involuntarily sterilized under the state’s eugenics program, introduced legislation today that would set up a $10 million fund to compensate those victims. The Governor’s Eugenics Task Force recommended that the victims receive a lump-sum, tax-free amount of $50,000 each. So far, 132 […]
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State elections board clears Durham Partnership for Progress
The N.C. Board of Elections has ruled that the mailers produced by the Durham Partnership for Progress were not coordinated with any candidates supported by the local SuperPAC. As the Indy reported last week, several complaints had been filed with the Durham Board of Elections, which forwarded them to the state level, alleging that the […]
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Southern Durham Development tries to influence commissioners’ race
What’s a Super PAC? Super PACs, as independent expenditure committees are known, distinguish themselves from run-of-the-mill political action committees because the former can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from individuals, labor unions, corporations and other associations. Super PACs can advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate, according to the Campaign Legal […]
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Southern Durham Development gives $50K to developer’s Super PAC
Southern Durham Development, which is behind the proposed 751 South development, has contributed more than $50,000 to The Durham Partnership for Progress, a Super PAC. Here is the campaign finance filing, due today: Partnership_for_Progress_30April2012.pdf As the Indy reported last week, DPP has ties to Southern Durham Development through Tyler Morris. He is a majority shareholder […]
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Live: In Durham, Elvis Costello becomes his own king
It’s likely that several hundred (if not upward of a thousand) people whipped out their smartphones at last night’s Elvis Costello concert and photographed the brightly colored Spinning Songbook that anchored the stage at the Durham Performing Arts Center. At 20-feet high, the mechanism dwarfed the size of Costello and his band, the Imposters—the tight-as-a-tick […]
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Durham’s first Super PAC has ties to Southern Durham Development
If you’re a Durham County resident, you may have received campaign mailers supporting the slate of Michael Page, Brenda Howerton, Joe Bowser and Rickey Padgett for county commissioner. Here’s the mailer: mailer_no_address.pdf That mailer was paid for by the innocuously named Durham Partnership for Progress. But innocuous it is not: DPP is actually an independent […]
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N.C. Attorney General’s Office releases draft report on fracking, consumer protection
The N.C. Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Division released its draft report today on the impacts of fracking on landowners. In a word: If you’re a landowner in North Carolina and you’ve signed away your mineral rightsor have been liberated of them by a homebuilderyou could be in trouble. The report was presented at a […]
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D.R. Horton do-over: Homebuilder returns mineral rights
We were out of the office yesterday when D.R. Horton began returning mineral rights to homeowners in the Triangle. A quick update in case you missed it: The deed corrections are being issued47 and counting in Durham County alone. The one attached here includes the language that the rights “were inadvertently saved, excepted and reserved” […]
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Jay Bakker to lead anti-Amendment 1 rally in Durham
Jay Bakker, son of evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, will come to Durham Sunday, April 22, at 1 p.m. to lead a rally against Amendment 1. The event is slated for the Trotter Building, 410 W. Geer St. Bakker is the co-founder of Revolution Church and preaches in New York City. He is the […]
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D.R. Horton responds to mineral rights inquiry
We received an email today from D.R. Horton, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, explaining its disclosure policy about mineral rights. NC_Retention_of_Mineral_Rights_Fact_Sheet_1_.pdf “D.R. Horton requires that its mineral rights reservation be disclosed to prospective homebuyers multiple times throughout their purchase experience,” the document reads in part. “D.R. Horton also currently requires closing attorneys paid by […]
