For all of you prospective and/or perpetual criminals who feel that you’ve been left out of the 287g fun, take heart. The News & Observer reports that now everyone who is booked into Wake County jail will have their immigration status checked as part of a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pilot program. Wake […]
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Chapel Hill Town Council replaces Bill Thorpe
“I didn’t think they’d be calling my name,” said a surprised James Merritt moments after being appointed Chapel Hill’s newest Town Councilman. By an 8-0 vote, the council chose the retired middle school assistant principal from a pool of six candidates at the close of Monday night’s meeting. “I’m honored and excited to have this […]
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Unchaining Orange County’s dogs
Last week, the Orange County Board of Commissioners ended nearly two years of contentious public debate over the question of whether dog owners should be permitted to tie or chain their pets. By a 4-1 vote, commissioners rejected 24/7 tethering as a humane method of containment, limiting the time a dog can be attached to […]
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The Duke v. N.C. State Liveblog
And so it has come to this; The bestand most schizophrenicDuke team in maybe 15 years is but one win away from being Bowl eligible. Standing in their way this afternoon is the N.C. State Wolfpack, the fans of which have traveled en masse to Wallace Wade Stadium today, infecting everyone and everything with their […]
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Election Day: Durham from dawn to dusk
At Union Baptist Church’s pre-dawn prayer service, many of the people filling the teal pews are dressed in jeans, their Obama-themed T-shirts peeking from beneath their coats. Others arrive with families in tow, their grade-school-age children still wearing pajamas adorned with “Yes, we can” stickers. “Father God, we come to you in a time of […]
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Bill Bell is so over this referendum bullshit
The Herald-Sun reports that Durham Mayor Bill Bell caused a stir at yesterday’s Triangle-wide transportation planning committee meeting when he suggested that if elected officials call on the state for permission to levy a sales tax on transit, they also forgo a public referendum a la the prepared meals tax. Said Bell after the meeting: […]
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Hot air: Meals tax backers, opponents make their case
For you Durhamites still on the fence about the proposed county-wide prepared meals tax, Bull City Rising has video of two of the principle figures behind the groups supporting and opposing the tax laying out their arguments at Tuesday night’s Inter-Neighborhood Council Forum. Our favorite part arrives 35 seconds in, when Dallas Woodhouse of Americans […]
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Who’s in a giving mood?
A full picture of who is backing the political action committees supporting and opposing the prepared meals tax won’t be available until after the third quarter filing reports are released later today, but the News and Observer has a preliminary breakdown of how the two groups have generated their financial support thus far. Durham Citizens […]
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DHA Board to review ouster of Section 8 head
The Durham Housing Authority will conduct an internal review of the allegations made by recently canned head of the city’s Section 8 voucher program, Bryant Saunders, reports the Herald-Sun. Saunders says that his Oct. 6th firing is the result of his attempts to fire one of his underlings, claiming that agency chief executive officer, Harrison […]
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And then there were 3
The Orange County Board of Commissioners narrowed the list of potential sites for the new county waste transfer station to three Tuesday night, reports the News and Observer. Notably absent from the list of remaining sites is the location in the Rogers-Eubanks community, the current home of the now 36-year-old county landfill. The Board of […]