Sludge in the Triangle & what you can do Dotting the verdant 400 acres of pasture at Braeburn Farm, on the outskirts of Snow Camp, are New Zealand Red Devon cattle and warmblood dressage horses like Thoroughbreds and Hanoverians. The farm is divided into 27 pastures where cattle graze every day. Rotating the cattle among […]
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Fish kill reported in Haw River
Alamance County Parks and Recreation A fish kill has been reported in the upper portion of the Haw River that runs through Alamance County before flowing into Chatham County. Haw River Assembly Riverkeeper Elaine Chiosso says the fish kill involving several hundred fish is likely related to the 1.45 million gallons of untreated wastewater the […]
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N.C. House spares muni broadband
They were exhausted, but this past Saturday at 4:55 a.m., a majority of the N.C. House of Representatives intrepidly stood up to big telecom companies in a critical battle over Internet access for the state’s small towns and rural counties. That’s when the House rejected a Senate-passed moratorium on municipal broadband systems, a major victory […]
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Keeping up with the anti-muncipal broadband bill
Last week in a fit of impatience, state Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, took matters into his hands and rolled his anti-municipal broadband bill (SB 1209) into the eNC extension HB 1840. Sen. Holye’s broad band bill had just gone to the first House Committee chaired by Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, Caswell counties, but things weren’t […]
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Keeping up with Sen. Hoyle’s
Whether short-tempered by the heat or ready to wipe his hands of the controversy surrounding broadband bill H 1209, state Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, took matters into his hands this past Wednesday, and rolled his anti-municipal broadband bill that was in the first House Committee chaired by Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, Caswell counties, into the […]
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Broken home
In 1980, a young couple from eastern North Carolinamy parentsmoved to Steinhatchee, Fla., a fishing village about 80 miles due west of Gainesville, to study demonology. I went along for the journey in utero. I spent the first three years of my life in Steinhatchee. I don’t remember much, of course. The heat was a […]
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Chatham Commissioners get extra time to chime in on U.S. 64
How can I comment? You can comment on the Draft Corridor Study Report through June 30. • By mail: Dan Thomas, NCDOT Transportation Planning Branch 1554 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1554 • By e-mail: danthomas [at] ncdot [dot] gov or peter_trencansky [at] urscorp [dot] com • By fax: 715-1160 Chatham County Commissioners have an […]
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Senate passes broadband bill, a killer for cities
When it comes to high-speed Internet, rural North Carolinians are in the Stone Age. And a bill that passed the Senate this week, S 1209, will keep them there. After a lengthy debate, the controversialand rewrittenbroadband bill passed the Senate Monday night 41-7. Democrat Bob Atwater was the only Triangle senator to oppose the bill. […]
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Urban Outfitters’ misguided “Eat Less” campaign
Amy Lambert used to tell herself what Urban Outfitters is telling millions of other young women: Eat Less. It wasn’t unusual for Lambert, who had an eating disorder for more than eight years, to consume little more than one 80-calorie container of yogurt in a day. Now recovering, Lambert led a protest last week outside […]
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Anti-municipal broadband bill passes Senate Finance
After two false starts, the Senate Finance Committee finally put bill S1209 on the agenda, and after less than 30 minutes of discussion and no public comment, voted in favor of the bill. It proceeds to the Direct Revenue Laws committee for additional study. (At the time of this post, details of the vote and […]
