Take notice Blue Devil nation, it may very well be that your football teamby ACC standards at leastdoes not suck. True, their only wins have come by way of teams who either played seemingly without the benefit of a secondary (Navy), or who were altogether lacking of a pulse (James Madison). And it’s also true […]
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Wake Commissioners to decide on George’s Mews project
The News and Observer reports that the Wake County Board of Commissioners is likely to decide today whether to contribute to the cost of a proposed housing development in one of Raleigh’s most historic poshest neighborhoods. The Community Alternative for Supportive Abodes (CASA) plans to convert 26 one bedroom units at the George’s Mews complex […]
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Kenn Gardner settles up
The row between Wake County Commissioner Kenn Gardner and the non-profit he says owes him hundreds of thousands in back-pay has ended, reports the News & Observer. In exchange for dropping his lawsuit, the Triangle Aquatic Center (TAC) has agreed to pay Gardner $25, 000, a relative pittance compared to the $400, 000 he was […]
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Nuke facility guards agree to new contract
Facing South reports that after a protracted negotiation process, the security guards at a Progress Energy nuclear power plant outside Raleigh have come to terms on a new contract with Securitas, the guard’s direct employer. The hope is that improved working conditions will help alleviate some of the security woes workers say still plague the […]
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Journalist killed by train
A former features editor with the Greensboro News & Record was found dead early Tuesday morning on the railroad tracks near the intersection of Dillard and Pettigrew streets in Durham. Carla Diane Bagley was struck by an Amtrak passenger train as it passed through Durham on its way to Charlotte. The incident occurred at 7:30 […]
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What the Housing brochures don’t tell you
The Daily Tar Heel reports today that six university residential halls contain small traces of asbestos.
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Triangle probation offices’ problems run deep
A recently released federal study reveals that problems in the Wake and Durham county probation offices are worse than previously thought, reports the News and Observer. Ordered weeks after the offices were revealed to have mishandled the cases of two men suspected in the separate murders of Abhijit Mahato and Eve Carson, two local university […]
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N.C. still in play in race for the White House
Now that the revels in Denver and St. Paul have ended, it seems an appropriate time to check in with Facing South to see which presidential hopeful is leading in the race for North Carolina’s electoral votes. Republican presidential candidate John McCain leads, but just by a nose. The latest poll from Real Clear Politics […]
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Edwards pulls out of speaking engagement
Failed Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has canceled a scheduled appearance at Hofstra University in New York, the second such cancellation in as many days, reports the News & Observer. Originally, the event was to feature both the former U.S. Senator and his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, whose cancellation came prior to her husband’s. Credit deadpan […]
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A word on low-flow toilets
Bull City Rising has an interesting analysis of the city of Durham’s plan to offer $100 rebates to Durham-ites who purchase low-flow toilets. Turns out it’s only a piecemeal effort. The deputy director of the City’s water management department notes that toilets are one of the biggest water-users in our homes, and that if 3,000 […]
