Federal judiciary nominee Thomas Farr, a Raleigh lawyer, says in a letter this week to Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) that he met with a “ballot security team” before the 1990 election, when he was an attorney for Senator Jesse Helms’s reelection campaign, but strongly denies he knew the content of postcards to voters that resulted […]
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North Carolina Republicans Are Running Away from Former Register of Deeds Laura Riddick
Just as Bob Dylan said, “We live in a political world.” Dylan’s 1989 lyrics rang true again following the December 12 indictment of former Wake County Register of Deeds Laura Riddick and three other employees of the office. A grand jury brought charges against Riddick including embezzlement of more than $100,000 by a public officiala […]
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Before Finding a Place in the History Books, Renowned Blues and Folk Musician Lead Belly Made a Stop in Raleigh
Before Johnny Cash recorded “Rock Island Line,” before Pete Seeger sang about studying war no more, and before Nirvana did a harrowing version of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” on MTV Unplugged, there was Lead Belly. Mentored by the titanic bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lead Belly was a singer, guitarist, and storyteller, one whose […]
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WaPo Editorial Board Takes on Thomas Farr Again; Thom Tillis Spox Defends Him, Calling the INDY a “Left-Wing Blog”
More calls are coming for the Senate Judiciary Committee to reexamine its approval of Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr to the federal bench in the district court of eastern North Carolina. As the INDY first reported, Farr told the committee that he had not been involved with a 1990 voter-suppression case in which the Jesse Helms […]
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Breakfast with Santa Event in Southeast Raleigh Brings Community Together
The neighborly tradition called “Breakfast with Santa” got its start in the 1960s, offering food and merriment to the Southeast Raleigh community, activist Octavia Rainey recalls. Rainey and a community group are keeping the event going, with the celebration for this year set for ten a.m. to one p.m. Saturday, December 16, at the Tarboro […]
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Senator Cory Booker Asks for the Release of a Department of Justice Memo on Thomas Farr’s Involvement in a Voter-Intimidation Scheme
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, sent letters Wednesday to Raleigh lawyer Thomas Farr and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking Sessions for internal Department of Justice documents and both for an explanation for differences between Farr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee and “his apparent awareness of a major voter suppression effort,” Booker’s office […]
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For Years, Raleigh’s Zoning Inspectors Have Been Tasked with Duties They’re Not Equipped to Do
For years now, brash, big new houses have been elbowing their way between modest older dwellings in Raleigh, often after a developer scraped off an existing abode to make room. As happens with virtually all development issues in Raleigh, heated questions have ensued: How is that new house so close to my boundary? Is it […]
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The Disruption on the New Raleigh City Council Is a Blast from the Past
The recent shenanigans of the Raleigh City Council conjure up the disruption that beset Wake County government in 2009, from Commissioner Betty Lou Ward’s infamous bathroom trip to the Ron Margiotta-John Tedesco takeover of the 2009 Wake County Board of Education. The city council had been reasonably placid, if not spectacularly productive, for the past […]
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Indictments in Wake Register of Deeds Scandal Charge Laura Riddick with Embezzling $926,615
Former Wake County Register of Deeds Laura Riddick faces charges of embezzling nearly a million dollars in six indictments returned by a county grand jury Tuesday. Riddick and three other Register of Deeds employees are charged in sixteen indictments related to money under their control. Riddick faces charges including embezzlement of more than $100,000 by […]
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North Carolina Ranks 33rd Nationally in Health, United Health Foundation Says
North Carolina’s overall health rankings slipped to thirty-third from thirty-second this year, according to the United Health Foundation study America’s Health Rankings.” According to a press release, compilers of this report have combed through data annually for twenty-eight years on “behaviors, community and environment, policy, clinical care, and outcomes” to present an overall view of […]
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