Social scientist Charles Murray, a man classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist, will speak at Duke University tonight. According to The Chronicle, Murray is expected to speak about his 2012 book Coming Apart: The State of White America, in an event cosponsored by the Duke College Republicans and the Duke […]
Sarah Willets
Posted inUncategorized
Orange County Board of Adjustment: No Parties at the Party Barn
It’s a farm. But not everything that goes on there is a farm activity. That’s the conclusion the Orange County Board of Adjustment reached Monday night regarding the Barn of Chapel Hill, aka the Party Barn. The latest installment in a saga that stretches back nearly two years, the three-hour-plus hearing included some eye-rolling, plenty […]
Posted inNews
Let These Two Middle Schoolers Tell You Why International Women’s Day Matters
Laura Gonzalez and Belen Willott are no strangers to activism. Gonzalez recently participated in the nationwide Day Without Immigrants strike. Willott is in a feminist book club. Both joined January’s Women’s March in Raleigh and a rally put on this morning by Action NC as part of International Women’s Day and a corresponding day of […]
Posted inUncategorized
The Legislature’s New Sales-Tax Plan Is Going to Cost Durham Big
Many of the plan’s chief beneficiaries would be poorer rural counties in the southeastern part of the state. However, the two biggest gainersGuilford County and Mecklenburg Countyare metro areas, owing to confusing quirks in existing law that the new bill seeks to rectify. The distribution system proposed by SB 126 is at least easier to […]
Posted inNews
Supreme Court Sends Transgender Teen’s Bathroom Case Back to Lower Court
The Supreme Court has asked a lower court to reconsider its previous ruling in a favor of a transgender student who sought to use the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia school. The case, involving seventeen-year-old Gavin Grimm and the Gloucester County school board, is being watched closely in North Carolina, because a ruling would have […]
Posted inNews
Two N.C. State Reps Want to Label Some Disruptive Protesters Economic Terrorists, Criminalize Blocking Streets During Protests
A bill introduced in the state House today could label some disruptive protesters as “economic terrorists” and criminalizes blocking streets while participating “in a riot or other unlawful assembly.”House Bill 249, which has the short title “Economic Terrorism,” was filed today by Representatives John Torbett and John Faircloth, Republicans of Gaston and Guilford counties, respectively. […]
Posted inNews
North Carolina May Soon Allow Legit Sunday-Morning Brunch Just Like a Grown-Up State!
If a bipartisan group of North Carolina senators have their way, you could soon enjoy an actual Sunday morning brunch, bloody Mary and everything. Senators Rick Gunn, Dan Blue, and Kathy Harrington—Blue is a Raleigh Democrat, Gunn and Harrington are Republicans—are the primary sponsors of Senate Bill 155, Economic & Job Growth for NC Distilleries, […]
Posted inNews
Durham Mayor Bell Takes a Victory Lap at His Final State of the City Address
When Durham Mayor Bill Bell gave his first State of the City address in 2001, the venue—Bay 7 at American Tobacco—was still under construction. Plastic sheets hung over unfinished walls, and heaters were brought in to keep guests warm. Bell returned to the same spot Tuesday for his final State of the City address. This […]
Posted inUncategorized
Durham’s New Parking Meters Are Confusing. We’re Here to Help.
All over downtown Durham on Monday afternoon, small groups of people were huddled on sidewalks around tall black machines, puzzled looks on their faces. It was the first day the city’s new metered parking system was in effect. “Hate it,” David Negrotto said. “I’ve lived here twenty-seven years, and I’ve never had to do this.” […]
Posted inNews
Michael Peterson, a Convicted Killer, Is a Free Man
Michael Peterson walked out of the Durham County Courthouse on Friday a free man after entering an Alford plea to the charge of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of his wife, Kathleen Peterson, in 2001.
