The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its latest assessment of the Durham Housing Authority (DHA), and the news is not good. The agency labeled the DHA “troubled” after identifying several problems in its handling of the city’s affordable housing, specifically its management of the Section 8 program, reports WRAL. DHA Chief […]
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287(g) program hits snags in Wake
While Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison was trying to appease the press and the public last month about a joint federal-local initiative at the Wake County Detention Center to combat illegal immigration, Teodolo Nunez Bustos was sitting in a cell a few floors away. A suspected illegal immigrant, he was later held illegally, according to […]
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Seeing the city through a conventioneer’s eyes
The plan was simple: Spend a day in downtown Raleigh. See. Report. I’m new to North Carolina. I hadn’t spent much time in Raleigh, and with the new convention center opening, it was suggested that I explore downtown through a newcomer’s eyesmuch like a conventioneer. I thought it would be important to find and/or do […]
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UNC prefers blue, thank you
Recently installed UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp yesterday moved not to renew the school’s three-month-old contract with Victoria’s Secret, reports The Daily Tar Heel. North Carolina was one of 31 universities that this spring agreed to allow the lingerie company the use of its logo for Pink, a line of sleepwear, loungewear and “intimate apparel.” Astute […]
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UNC protesters guilty, but sweat-free
Five University of North Carolina students arrested for their role in a May anti-sweatshop protest at the offices of the university chancellor were found guilty Monday in Chapel Hill District Court. Salma Mirza, Linda Gomaa, Sarah Hirsch, Thomas Mattera and Tim Stallmann participated in a two-week sit-in last spring at UNC’s South Building. The demonstration […]
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Roughing it with the Triangle Rattlers
It’s nearly game time. In the dimly lit locker room at Durham County Stadium, many of the Triangle Rattlers are dressed and collecting in the stairwell that leads onto the field. However, Orlando Adwater, the Rattler’s 6-foot-5-inch, 320-pound head coach and sometime defensive player, is losing his patience with the stragglers. “Get the fuck out […]
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Fear of a black jogger
I prefer to run after dusk. This poses somewhat of a problem, because I am black. And for certain people, the sight of a relatively large Negro male barreling ungracefully toward them in the growing dark can be a bit unnerving. I wonder sometimes if their reaction would be different if I had additional padding […]
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Fishing while brown
It was twilight Aug. 6 when Officer Jeff Brown of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission noticed an empty Toyota Pathfinder while patrolling an access road near the Haw River. After inspecting the car and finding no one, Brown walked to the edge of the river access point and saw men casting a fishing net. They […]
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UNC preserves Southern treasures
The staff at UNC’s Wilson Library will soon offer yet another resource for Southern history buffs to delve into. The university has won nearly $150,000 in grants to preserve 2,350 hours of interviews and performances by a variety of Southern music giants including Ralph Stanley (he of “O Death” fame), Doc Watson and Elizabeth Cotton. […]
