Blind eyes in the sky Only four of the Durham Police Department’s 13 surveillance cameras work consistently. Seven operate only at night; one operates sporadically and another doesn’t work at all. Here are the locations of the cameras: ⇒ Google map • Cardens Lane and Clay Street (signal goes out) • Cardens Lane and Peabody […]
Vernal Coleman
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Searching for an agreement in the Moncure Plywood strike
Outside the front entrance of the Moncure Plywood plant, Lewis Cameron, who has worked here 35 years, joins his co-workers on the picket line. It is the day before Thanksgiving, and as Cameron, the increasingly frustrated president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 369, begins his six-hour shift on the picket […]
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Decision on Durham photog’s home arrives today
The fate of the house where famed civil rights photographer Alex Rivera lived and worked will be decided sometime today, reports the Herald-Sun. The house at 1712 Fayetville St. has caused a tiff between North Carolina Central University and members of the surrounding community. The school wants Rivera’s former home demolished to make room for […]
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Michael Page elected new Durham County BOC chair
The Herald-Sun today reports on the sum and substance of Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting, including the swearing-in of several recently elected county officials, Michael Page’s unanimous selection as Board Chair and the notable silence of one Joe Bowser–his rival for the position–during that vote.
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Never Question Butch Davis
Y’all have probably seen this before, but what the hell. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
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Snore (Virginia Tech 14, Duke 3)
The word ‘ugly” doesn’t begin to describe this one. Virginia Tech and Duke’s respective offensive squads discovered new levels of ineptitude Saturday, playing in a contest so boring that it made even the perpetually-raucous Hokie faithful go listless. For its part, VaTech surrendered five turnovers in the first six possessions, a feat that would have […]
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Amanda Arrington: Good fences make good pets
Little has changed since Amanda Arrington first met Champ. As she and her confederates approach him with tools and building materials in tow, the honey-colored pit bull is still being secured with a short leash in the back of his North Durham home, and he is just as wary of strangers as the day Arrington […]
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Who is Cassandra Q. Butts?
As the president-elect’s transition team continues its vetting, the good folks over at the New York Times are running thumbnail profiles of all of the prospective members of the new administration, this one a longtime Tar Heel. The abbreviated story on Ms. Butts: -She’s being considered for a position in the White House Counsel’s office. […]
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The “thinning blue line”
City Councilman Eugene Brown cajoling of a police department that is currently officers from being fully staffed. New City Manager Tom Bonfield however as the City Council tries determine the best way to fill out the shrinking roster of police officers.
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NCSU racist graffiti tagger’s year of a thousand mea culpas begins
One of the four as of yet unnamed NCSU students who took to the campus Free Expression Tunnel to unload some post-election racist bile frustration issued a written apology this week. “The statements written in the Tunnel were written with political intentions in mind,” he said in a released statement. I’m having a bit of […]