The UNC Board of Governors may have violated the state’s Open Meeting Law when it moved to a private room to avoid student protesters on Friday. The UNC Board of Governors began Friday’s meeting as it often doeswith a prayer. “Dear God, give strength and open-mindedness to everyone in this room,” prayed John Craig Souza, […]
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UNC Board of Governors may have violated state’s Open Meeting Law
The UNC Board of Governors may have violated the state’s Open Meeting Law when it moved to a private room to avoid student protesters on Friday. NC Student Power Union were demonstrating against the Board of Governors’ decision to close three UNC System centers: UNC Chapel Hill’s Center on Work, Poverty and Opportunity, N.C. Central […]
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Police remove students protesting UNC Board of Governor’s meeting
Breaking from the UNC Board of Governor’s meeting: Police have removed several students protesting this morning’s UNC Board of Governors meeting in Charlotte. The meeting was moved to a private room to avoid the demonstrators, but students continue to protest outside that room. The meeting is being televised in Charlotte so that it complies with […]
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Working to eliminate food deserts in Southeast Raleigh
An oasis sits just beyond the horizon of the food desert that is southeast Raleigh. Erin Byrd is working to make sure that it isn’t just a mirage. Faced with a staggering inadequacy of healthy, affordable food in the area, Byrd and a small group of southeast Raleigh residents created the Fertile Ground Food Cooperative, […]
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Two men, united in tragedy, march at HKonJ
At the heart of Saturday’s Mass Moral March were two men, related only by tragedy and the hope to learn from it. “I truly believe this was a great tragedy, but I think a change in attitudes has already started to happen,” said Farris Barakat, whose younger brother, Deah, was shot to death Feb. 10. […]
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In Cary, it seems no one wants to kill an elephant
The only thing as dead as the elephant whose mounted head graced the lobby of the Embassy Suites in Cary was the big-game hunting expo it was advertising. The Southeast Outdoors Expo, an intermediary between aspiring big-game hunters and safari outfitters from around the world, moved from Charlotte to Cary last year, and has since […]
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Is the long reach of Art Pope driving the UNC Board of Governors’ review?
A woman? Young? Poor? African-American? Native American? A UNC Board of Governors working group is scrutinizing centers that focus on you. For the first time in its history, the BOG is reviewing the UNC System’s centers and institutes, narrowing the list to 34 that could face deep funding cuts or be dismantled altogether. And the […]
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Crushed Velvet suit
Mary Stevenson Keef never stood a chance. She knew it. The opposing counsel knew it. Even the judge presiding over the hearing probably knew it. After about 10 months and several out-of-court settlements, Keef, originally one of several plaintiffs suing the owners of the Velvet Cloak Inn for unfair trade practices, among other allegations, was […]
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All but two holdouts leaving the troubled Velvet Cloak Inn
And then there were two. With the exception of a handful of squatters, Mary Keef and Brian Walingsford are the last two people living in the Velvet Cloak Inn in Raleigh. Since July, several of their fellow holdouts moved out after the inn’s owners threatened them with foreclosure and cut the electricity and water to […]
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Conservative dark money launches pro-Haugh ad campaign
We are now less than two weeks away from Election Day, which might seem like an odd time for any group to begin funneling money into any candidate. That is until you cut through the bullshit. The American Future Fund, a right-wing nonprofit based out of Iowa, has launched an ad campaign in support of […]