It hasn’t been a barrel of laughs lately at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle of Wake County. Money woes, which hit just as the organization was stepping up to a brand-new, well-equipped building in Raleigh, forced IFFS to cut its full-time staff from 36 people to 18 at one point–it’s now back to 20. Those who […]
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‘Today we march. Tomorrow we vote.’
When Rosa Saavedra spotted Catholic Sister Kitty Bethea on Monday at the Raleigh May Day march and rally for fair immigration reform, Saavedra looked at her friend in amazement. “Did you ever think we’d see this day?” said Saavedra, who marched in Smithfield and then joined a caravan of cars that drove to Raleigh for […]
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Meredith College faculty reject BB&T money
The faculty at Meredith College in Raleigh struck a blow for academic freedom Friday, and in so doing, might’ve cost the college $420,000 from the BB&T Charitable Foundation. At issue: A grant from BB&T–$60,000 a year for seven years–for an honors program featuring, apparently at the bank’s insistence, such right-wing texts as Ayn Rand’s Atlas […]
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Digging downtown?
Downtown Raleigh, a joke more than a location for the last 30 years, is rumbling back to life at last. With each new hole in the ground, the sound is building to a roar. The city counts nearly $1 billion in public and private investment either under way downtown or starting soon. So what happened? […]
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Ray McGovern to speak at protest
In his career as a CIA analyst, Ray McGovern was responsible for preparing the President’s Daily Brief for Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. He was about as far from being an anti-war activist as you could get . But this weekend he’ll be in North Carolina speaking against the war in Iraq. And […]
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Nuke plant security questions remain
As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wraps up its investigation of alleged security flaws at Progress Energy’s Shearon Harris nuclear power plant, new evidence has surfaced of ongoing failures to fix security problems at the Raleigh-area facility. Among other things, it suggests the plant’s chronic difficulties with malfunctioning security doors continued into late February–well after NRC […]
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City hypes Civic Center ‘implosion’
All this talk of “implosion” has delivered me on 6:30 Sunday morning, fresh out of the hospital, up two ladders and on top of a downtown roof. It is 23 degrees. The implosion of the universally hated Civic Center had better be good. I’m a big fan of controlled demolition and a devotee of legendary […]
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NCSU students reject ‘Academic Bill of Rights’
Conservative organizations attempting to crack down on what they say is liberal bias in the nation’s universities lost a battle this month in N.C. State University’s Student Senate. Student Senate member Benton Sawrey, an NCSU freshman, proposed a bill supporting an effort to have the so-called Academic Bill of Rights, a key part of the […]
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Peter Eichenberger on the mend
Three weeks ago, when Indy writer Peter Eichenberger was unconscious in the neurological intensive care unit at WakeMed, with more wires and hoses going in and out of him than a V8, one thing made friends and family hopeful: He couldn’t stop thrashing around. That told them the real Peter was still in there, and […]
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