Visitors to Jordan Lake are finding the beaches littered with dead fish after the largest die-off of striped bass in the history of the reservoir. More than 5,000 striped bass have died in Jordan Lake since Aug. 1; state wildlife officials counted 1,800 on Aug. 9 alone. The affected area includes the Haw River near […]
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Striped bass dying in record numbers at Jordan Lake
Visitors to Jordan Lake are finding the beaches littered with dead fish after the largest die-off of striped bass in the history of the reservoir. More than 5,000 striped bass have died in Jordan Lake since Aug. 1; state wildlife officials counted 1,800 on Aug. 9 alone. The affected area includes the Haw River near […]
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North Carolina ranks 10th in U.S. in number of farmers markets
North Carolina ranks 10th in the number of farmers markets in the U.S., according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With 217 farmers markets, N.C. is the only Southern state in the top 10. California ranks first with 729. The numbers are self-reported, said Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, during […]
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Tomatoland: those Florida tomatoes may have a dark history
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit By Barry Estabrook Andrews McMeel Publishing 240 pp., $11.99 When I was a kid, my parents and I often strolled the sunbaked rows of the family garden and, after flicking off a caterpillar or two, gently parted the vines to get at a bounty of […]
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How did Ashley Christensen fare on Iron Chef America?
When challenger Ashley Christensen, the culinary wunderkind behind Poole’s Diner in Raleigh, selected Iron Chef Bobby Flay as her foil in Iron Chef America Sunday night, the Twittersphere immediately responded with the hashtag #slayflay. When the secret ingredient, chum salmon, was unveiled lying in state among ice sculptures ofdancing? leaping? swimming?fish, #filetflay never caught on, […]
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Page One: Inside the New York Times explains why we still need journalism
Page One: Inside The New York Times opens Friday in the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: If all traditional journalism disappeared for a weekdaily and weekly newspapers, online and print magazines, TV, radiowhat would happen? Where would Huffington Post and other aggregators get their content to rewrite and then fail to attribute? What links […]
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Wildly Affordable Organic shows that cooking from scratch can be cheap, healthy and doable
Wildly Affordable Organic By Linda Watson Da Capo Press/ Lifelong Books, 250 pp. $25 What: Cook for Good Challenge When: Saturday, July 16, 8 a.m.–noon Where: Western Wake Farmers’ Market, 1225 Morrisville Carpenter Road, Cary What happens: Watson will discuss her Cook For Good Challenge, including recipes and cooking tips. Those who take the challenge […]
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Bayer CropScience in RTP pays $750 million over GMOs
Bayer CropScience, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, has agreed to pay $750 million in a settlement with U.S. rice farmers over crops contaminated by genetically modified organisms. The Environmental News Service reported the story today.
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Perdue nixes fossil fuel bill
Senate Bill 709 is dead, at least temporarily. Gov. Beverly Perdue vetoed the bill, widely derided by environmental and clean-energy groups for its focus on fossil fuels and offshore and onshore drilling. Yet it was also the constitutionality of the measure—which critics had questioned since Republican Sens. Bob Rucho, Tommy Tucker and Harry Brown sponsored […]
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Truth in legislative bill naming: titles like psychopaths
Six months into the grudge match known as the legislative session, and lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills whose titles are like psychopaths: superficially charming, unreliable, insincere, egocentric and shameless. Now, Senate rules require the “title of each bill shall adequately and fairly reflect its subject matter,” and House rules mandate that “all bills and […]
