Three votes separated them in the Nov. 6 election, and now Michelle Berger and Hugh Harrington will duke it out again for a seat on the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners. On Dec. 19, the State Board of Elections voted unanimously to order a revote between the candidates. The decision came just one week after the […]
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Champions, with an *
Four years ago, the Durham Bulls swept the Pawtucket Red Sox to become back-to-back International League champions, a feat that hadn’t been accomplished in more than 10 years in Triple-A baseball. But at least two Bulls players on the 2003 championship team purchased performance-enhancing drugs either shortly after or before that season, according to a […]
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Slow roast
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. To casual customers, Bruce Emery and David McKnight are perhaps just the odd couple playing familiar tunes in the back of Raleigh’s Global Village coffeehouse: The men are in their fifties or sixties and tall. They both wear glasses. Emery is […]
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Durham City Manager Patrick Baker resigns
Listen! Listen to highlights from Patrick Baker’s press conference. If you cannot see the player below, download the free Flash Player. On Dec. 12, Mayor Bill Bell announced that Durham had begun a nationwide search to replace Patrick Baker as city manager. After finding a replacement, which he pledged to do by the end of […]
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Ryan Boyles, state climatologist
North Carolina State Climatologist Ryan Boyles researches climate and weather trends for private clients and the government, though his office receives no state funding. He spoke to the Indy about the recent drought and the mother of all climate issues: global warming. What are the long-term implications of the drought facing the Southeast? We’re pretty […]
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Energy interests fund Duke University’s research on climate change policy
Read more Related articles 10 years after Kyoto James Hansen won’t be quiet American notables discuss what we’ve accomplished and what’s next State senator parades dubious “global warming experts” before commission Q&A with Ryan Boyles, state climatologist for N.C. Testimony from NASA’s James Hansen Letter to the N.C. Division of Air Quality (PDF, 218 KB) […]
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El Futuro
As a “white boy from Arkansas” who attended high school in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Luke Smith heard some then-unconventional wisdom from his father: “You’re going to learn that, boy, because everybody’s going to be speaking it one day.” Smith’s father was referring to Spanish, the languageand accompanying culturehis son would later embrace […]
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South Asian experts, diplomats make strange bedfellows
A day after Bangladesh suffered its worst cyclone in at least 10 years, and two weeks into General Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of emergency rule in neighboring Pakistan, senior diplomats from both countries spoke in Durham at a lively forum on “the explosive situation in South Asia.” Muhammad Aslam Khan, deputy chief of mission at the […]
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Big debt, big questions
What is the total project cost? An estimated $46.8 million. What does the city owe? With interest, an estimated $67.8 million. How will the city pay for DPAC? Durham has borrowed $33.7 million in the form of certificates of participation, privately invested bonds. The city will repay this debt with a budgeted annual installment of […]
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That empty feeling: The Durham Performing Arts Center
Read more Big debt, big questions DPAC: A timeline On a recent afternoon, New York City entertainment executives, Swedish developers and local politicians descended on South Mangum Street to watch a construction crew install the final beam on the $46 million Durham Performing Arts Center. Before the ceremonial “topping out” of the city-owned theater, crowds […]