Yes, that’s an AP lede. Yesterday’s wire-service commentary calls out the McCain-Palin campaign for making at least three “aggressive claims this week that omitted key details or made dubious assumptions,” including its refusal to acknowledge that Sarah Palin did, in fact, at one point support the Bridge to Nowhere. (As well as an ad implying […]
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N.C. Central to eat bill for satellite campus funding
UNC System President Erskine Bowles told a UNC Board of Governors committee yesterday that N.C. Central University will be forced to pay back all federal loan money that students received while attending an unaccredited satellite campus in Georgia. The New L.I.F.E. College Program, which the UNC Board of Governors say they never vetted, was located […]
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Meals-tax event TO be held ON Tuesday
Members of the press received this not-too-subtle reminder from the pro-meals tax group, A Taste for Durham’s Future, that a) the group will kick off its well-heeled campaign to levy a 1 percent meals tax on Tuesday and b) the group’s name also contains the word “for.” Why the all-caps conjunction preposition, you ask? Well, […]
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Herald-Sun outs inmate voters
Out of 704 inmates at the Durham County Jail, just five are registered to vote, according to an article in today’s Herald-Sun (registration required). That sounds like news to us. This doesn’t: using the inmate database–which is public record–the H-S also published the names of the five registered voters, and the crimes they are charged […]
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America’s foodiest small town(s)
Bon Apetit magazine has named Bull City the nation’s ‘foodiest’ small town— and coined a new regional marker, ‘Durham-Chapel Hill,’ in the process. (That one-ups the tagline for Bull City Rising, who provided the link.) Perhaps Raleigh needs to start investing in urban farms to join the love: the glowing review of the Tobacco Road […]
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Ronnie Sturdivant’s legacy of unrealized plans
Ronnie Sturdivant, who on Aug. 30 was found shot to death in one of the two landmark buildings he owned in downtown Durham, never quite fit within the inner sanctum of Bull City businessmen. It was appropriate, then, that his funeral was held at the edge of the city, past a country club on Cole […]
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Cook-Out burgers are meals, too.
Pretzels are not. The Herald-Sun reports on the distinction between “restaurant meals,” which would be subject to a proposed 1 percent meals tax in Durham, and tax-free (though, sadly, not necessarily fat-free) snacks: If voters pass the referendum, the tax would be applied to restaurant meals and any food that consists of two or more […]
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Water restrictions lifted in Durham
After T.S. Hannah drenches your lawn Friday and Saturday, feel free to water it–as long as you use a hose. Durham City Manager Tom Bonfield has lifted all outdoor water restrictions, with the exception of sprinklers, which Durhamites can use from 5-8 a.m., or 5-8 p.m., Wednesdays and Saturdays. That means Saturday night Slip ‘n […]
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DTH tangles with ‘Web of Hatred’
The Daily Tar Heel editorial board makes a bold, if quixotic, attempt today to silence a recent slew of hateful, anti-immigrant commenters (one of whom compared immigrants to “leeches” and “parasites,” who coincidentally also helped build this country, before human life formed)–by quoting two in an editorial, thus giving the purveyors of unsolicited bigotry quite […]
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Durham commisioners approve stadium upgrade
The Herald-Sun reports today that county commissioners agreed to give the Durham County Memorial Stadium a $7.7 million upgrade (registration required) during a Tuesday work session. (The day-old H-S report breaks the story among Triangle media, which have followed the stadium story in the past.) According to The Durham News, an N&O community weekly, the […]
