We can’t resist the metaphor: Icarus Studios, a game development company based in Cary, flew too close to the sun, abruptly laying off 82 people Friday, just two months after launching a Beta version of its Fallen Earth game for Mac OS X. The Indy confirmed this news account with a former employee who was […]
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Inconsequential news item of the day: What the Obamas ate for lunch in Asheville
One of the few occasions in which mixing pork and politics is a good thing: The POTUS and FLOTUS had ribs, greens, baked beans, corn pudding, mac ‘n’ cheese, cornbread and sweet tea for lunch today at 12 Bones Smokehouse in Asheville,according to Jonathan Walczak, a reporter with the Asheville Citizen-Times, who is covering the […]
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Right-wing robocalls target Center for Responsible Lending
At 8:47 p.m. yesterday, I received a robocall at my home from the N.C. chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative “free market” group that is among those leading the Tea Party movement. I transcribed the text, which targets the Center for Responsible Lending with some overreaching, incendiary language. The Center, based in Durham, is […]
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The Children’s University closes after money troubles, state investigations
By Joe Schwartz and Lisa Sorg This story was updated at 4:51 p.m.The owner of a five-star Chapel Hill preschool allegedly owes teachers and parents thousands of dollars in pay and tuition after abruptly closing the facility March 18—and police suspect she has left the state. Lisa McEntyre, owner of the Children’s University, closed the […]
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No room? Try a wall garden
Think of it as 90-degree gardening: not the temperature but the angle. As more people move to cities, there is less horizontal space for gardening, but there are thousands of acres of prime vertical spaceon schools, homes, restaurants, even apartment buildingsthat are ripe for the planting. As with green roofs, building an extensive vertical garden […]
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Superfund means superbad
For more information, go to epa.gov and in the search box type “Superfund.” You can also view public documents related to these cases at the respective county libraries (see list below). Caution: These files are usually quite large. Look for documents detailing the site history, the contaminants of concern and the cleanup method. There is […]
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An Energy Star-approved gas-powered alarm clock?
Download the GAO investigation (PDF) When consumers buy a dishwasher, refrigerator or other product labeled with an Energy Star logo, they are supposed to have confidence that they are making an environmentally sound choice. But that may not be the case, according to a March 2010 report by the Government Accountability Office, the investigational arm […]
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Keeping pests—and pesticides—out of day cares
There’s a reason we endearingly call our kids rug rats: They spend a lot of time crawling on the floor. Unfortunately, so do ants, cockroaches and spiders. And more unfortunately, when we spray baseboards and bomb carpets with bug killer, our kids are cruising on their hands and knees through pesticides. Raleigh-based Toxic Free NC […]
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Creating space
Pelada 8 p.m. Saturday, April 10 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 11 Dir. Luke Boughen Rebekah Fergusson Ryan White 92 min. On most days in Forest Hills Park in Durham you can find at least one pickup game of soccer. The players are primarily Latino, and as dusk falls you can still hear yelling in Spanish […]
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UNC Bingham Facility gets $14.5 million in stimulus funds
Photo courtesy NC DENR Despite problems with leaking wastewater treatment ponds and chemical contamination in its septic system, the Bingham Facility at UNC has been awarded $14.5 million in federal stimulus money from the National Institutes of Health to build 30,000 square feet of new buildings at its Bingham Facility. The Bingham Facility is an […]
