“I saw a sow with a large abscess on her rump. The area was swollen to the size of a baseball and was oozing a thick, white viscous substance.” That’s how an undercover investigator’s notes read in a 2012 report on Clinton, N.C.-based Prestage Farms. But that news wasn’t mentioned last month when the Prestage […]
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In Raleigh, a push to lift the ban on granny flats
As the war continues in Syria and another pauses in Gaza, a battle of different proportions rages in Raleigh’s downtown neighborhoods: People are fighting over tiny houses. Regulating tiny houses, also known as backyard cottages, may epitomize just how boring the business of Raleigh City Hall can be. Yet it’s a piece of business that […]
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Who will fill Chris Malone’s vacancy on the Wake County school board?
In many North Carolina counties, school boards are nonpartisan. In theory, Wake County is one of them. Since Wake’s board members don’t run as Republicans and Democrats, it is technically a nonpartisan governing body. However, we define them by their partyand in many ways, that’s how they tacitly define themselves. Now, board members will have […]
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In Wake County, European election observers critique the process
European election observers, who arrived in the Triangle on Tuesday, saw a process that lived up to America’s own voting laws. But they had harsher criticisms for the impact of outside spending and our two-party system. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is supported by the United Nations and of which […]
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“I want to get good kids out of failing schools” ~Chris Malone
A new robo-call by Republican candidate for N.C. House District 35 Chris Malone tells constituents that he wants to “get good kids out of failing schools.” Malone currently serves as a Wake County school board member and has recently been mired in scandal over allegations of an affair with fellow board member Debra Goldman, who […]
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What’s fueling Obama’s full-court press: Hope turns to fear
Find your one-stop early-voting location Print our 2012 Take-Along Voting Guide Read more elections coverage and information Adrian Cobb is a 25-year-old black man who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 but didn’t volunteer for the campaign. This year, watching as Obama got pummeled in the first presidential debate, Cobb felt fear instead of hope. […]
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How your mortgage with First Citizens Bank helped pay for a seat in Congress
Born of humble means in Smithfield, First Citizens Bank now stretches from coast to coast. It reports assets worth $21 billion. Rather than collapse during the financial epidemic that wiped out other big banks, it expanded. No wonder, then, its principal owners can afford a seat in Congress. They bought it for one of the […]
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Live: The grace of Tinariwen in Carrboro
TinariwenThe ArtsCenter, CarrboroSaturday, Oct. 20 Tinariwen’s six members appear on stage, at least as they did Saturday night in Carrboro, accompanied by the rustle of traditional Taureg-Berber robes, the flash of red electrical guitars and the pop of hand drums. Such juxtaposition should give some clue as to the worlds that collide within the band’s […]
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Raleigh City Council votes in secret to give Jehovah’s Witnesses $150,000
It’s typical for two affable Jehovah’s Witnesses in oversized business suits to make the neighborhood rounds, knocking on doors. But what about when the whole organization comes knocking at City Hall? Earlier this month, the Raleigh City Council voted behind closed to doors to give the Jehovah’s Witnesses $150,000 to hold their annual convention in […]
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Relaxing Raleigh’s food truck rules… Maybe
Raleigh is set to consider another milestone in its slow crawl toward a more accepting food truck culture downtown. City councilors will hold a public hearing Tuesday on whether or not to allow more food trucks per lot and to allow the mobile businesses to come closer into downtown. The hearing comes after a six-month […]