Download documents May 2010 N.C. Attorney General letter to Haven Haven Animal Welfare inspections • Jan. 2009 • May 2009 • Aug. 2009 • Oct. 2009 • Dec. 2009 • July 2010 Haven photos These photos were taken at the Haven July 12, 2010, by inspectors from the N.C. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Welfare Section. […]
Lisa Sorg
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Durham Council votes unanimously against digital billboards
It wasn’t the dozen pairs of blinking sunglasses or the parade of nonprofit groups pleading their cases, but a photo of the R. Kelly Bryant Jr. Bridge that may have made the biggest impact on the Durham City Council’s vote on digital billboards. The graceful pedestrian bridge, which spans N.C. 147, serves as the eastern […]
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UNC gives back $14.5 million NIH grant
UNC is relinquishing a $14.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that would have funded new additions to the Bingham Facility, formerly known as the Farm, the university announced late today. This means expansion of the facility has stopped. Earlier this year, UNC received the grant, which was part of the federal stimulus […]
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Museum of Life and Science board chimes in on billboard issue
Courtesy John SchelpNear N.C. 147, East Durham Update Monday afternoon: Barry Van Deman, president and CEO of the Museum of Life and Science, wrote to City Council members today about the museum’s position on digital billboards. You can read the letter, but in essence he reiterates the museum “has not taken and does not intend” […]
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Sales tax resolution fails in Durham
By a one-vote margin, Durham County Commissioners squelched a resolution Thursday night to hold a public referendum on a quarter-cent sales tax increase this November. Commissioners Michael Page, Ellen Reckhow and Becky Heron voted against the measure; Brenda Howerton and Joe Bowser voted yes. Revenue from the sales tax, estimated at $7.8 million for fiscal […]
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A license to kill: The U.S. and human execution equipment
This weird tidbit has been sitting in the Triangulator’s inbox for a while: Companies that want to export execution equipment including electric chairs, gallows, guillotines, air tight vaults and lethal chemical injection tables must now get a U.S. export license, the trade magazine Government Security News reported earlier this month. The export licenses are issued […]
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A license to kill: The U.S. and human execution equipment
This weird tidbit has been sitting in the Triangulator’s inbox for a while:Companies that want to export execution equipment including electric chairs, gallows, guillotines, air tight vaults and lethal chemical injection tables must now get a U.S. export license, the trade magazine Government Security News</em> reported earlier this month. The export licenses are issued by […]
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Sales tax resolution fails in Durham
By a one-vote margin, Durham County Commissioners squelched a resolution Thursday night to hold a public referendum on a quarter-cent sales tax increase this November. Commissioners Michael Page, Ellen Reckhow and Becky Heron voted against the measure; Brenda Howerton and Joe Bowser voted yes. Revenue from the sales tax, estimated at $7.8 million for fiscal […]
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Gov. Perdue signs sweepstakes bill
Gov. Beverly Perdue signed House Bill 80, which bans sweepstakes parlors in North Carolina. You can read the final ratified version of the bill here: H80v5.pdfThe bill passed on July 7 by a 86-27 vote. Unless the video sweepstakes industry successfully sues the state, which it has threatened to do, the 932 parlors must close […]
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The next hot spot for drilling could be the N.C. coast
Editor’s Note: It’s Day 71 of the Deepwater Horizon spill, and each day I read the newspaper accounts and updates on the disaster. But I no longer watch the underwater oilcam that captures the slow death of the ocean. I turn my head when rescuers cradle another viscous bird from the slick. I’ve refocused my […]
