Buckeyes and Buttercups, Lakenfelders and Leghorns: So many breeds of chickens, so few yards in Cary in which to raise them. But Cary’s great back yard chicken controversy could peak tonight as the Cary Town Council reconsiders an ordinance that would allow residents to raise hens in their back yards with some restrictions. The meeting […]
Lisa Sorg
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An ode to the lunchbox of another era
Black or silver, it was shaped like a camel back trunk, with two chrome latches on the front. A swing arm locked the glass-lined thermos inside the domed lid. The metal “workingman’s” lunchboxalthough plenty of women carried one, toosymbolized the can-do spirit of manual labor. My dad carried a black metal lunchbox to Delco-Remy Plant […]
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The guise of objectivity
Objectivity (noun): “expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.” Math problems are objective. The Yellow Pages are objective. Journalism is not objective. At the Indy we sometimes hear from readers that a story is not objective. You’re right, it probably isn’t, because the Indy, in […]
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N.C. astronomy institute aims to archive a treasure trove of celestial photos
About PARI From the Triangle, the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute is about five-hour drive to Rosman, a mountainous and deeply forested area near Brevard. Located at the former Rosman Research Station, which in the 1960s was the primary East Coast facility for tracking satellites and monitoring manned space flights. In 1981, NASA transferred the property […]
Posted inGuides
Clean Water for North Carolina
Nearly a year ago, members of the newly minted General Assembly held a committee meeting about hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, in the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh. Room 643, where the meeting was held, is windowless, emblematic of the fraternity of lobbyists and lawmakers who shape the destinies of 9.3 million North Carolinians. […]
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2012 Citizen Awards
This year’s Citizen Award winners ably demonstrate how committed individuals can make a difference in all levels of a community: Zoom in to several city blocks in Chapel Hill and watch as Sustaining OurSelves successfully protects two historically African-American neighborhoods from callous development. Countywide, the Great Schools in Wake Coalition wrested control from a GOP-dominated […]
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Now about those sex ads …
I received a voicemail this morning from a concerned reader regarding an ad in the back of the paper. The ad says that on average, escorts have sex with seven men in a day, while women in general have sex with seven men in a lifetime. (It being an ad and not a news story, […]
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LGBT policy divides Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA and YMCA of the Triangle
Lakewood YMCA in Durham reopens Saturday Five years ago, the Lakewood YMCA was a goner. The 40-year-old Y, a cornerstone of this diverse southwest-central Durham community, faced $5 million in repairs, benign neglect by the YMCA of the Triangle and a declining membership that had been cannibalized by the Ys downtown and at the American […]
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Fracking and the menace of methane
If anyone in the General Assembly listened to the scientists at the hydraulic fracturing workshop at Duke University today, then any pro-fracking legislation should be dead in North Carolina. That’s not a given: Last week, the GOP-led majority threatened a midnight override to Gov. Perdue’s veto of Senate Bill 709, which would have opened the […]
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Fracking and earthquakes
I’m at the fracking workshop at Duke today and someone just asked a question about the connection between fracking activities and earthquakes, such as those that occurred last year near fracking operations in Arkansas and Ohio. Michael Parker of ExxonMobil, who is among the speakers, was quick to mention that the wells potentially related to […]
