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Election 2020: Biden in Durham

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By Karen Tam Former Vice President Joe Biden made a mysterious trip to Durham on Sunday where few people heard or saw him. Biden had a virtual meeting with African-American faith leaders and he spoke inside the Riverside High School campus to a selected few. As he spoke at Riverside, Redouane and Kim Hafidi of Durham wore their “VOTE” masks as they stood outside the fenced...

October 18, 2020

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Election 2020: Trump holds rally in Greenville; some supporters ready to hear more about policy

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President Donald Trump made his seventh campaign visit to North Carolina this election year to Greenville on Thursday, where he told about 1,000 supporters at Pitt-Greenville Airport to get out and vote, boasted of the number of votes he got during the 2016 election, and touted Republican plans for the country. “For years, you had a president who apologized for America. Now, you have...

October 17, 2020

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September 29, 2020

The Trump administration’s $4 billion Farmers to Families program. What is it?...

When the lockdowns from the coronavirus started happening this year, Gaye Walker and her husband, Dave Walker, who own...

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September 14, 2020

Blog post: Pierce Freelon has been appointed to the Durham City Council. But is it...

Durham City Council voted on Aug. 31 to appoint Pierce Freelon to the Ward 3 seat. The seat had...

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September 9, 2020

Election 2020: Trump in Winston-Salem

President Donald Trump was in Winston-Salem on Tuesday for his fourth visit to North Carolina since July, where he...

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September 5, 2020

Marc Dreyfors’ Eco-Innovations

Behind a small, nondescript building in Efland, a gravel driveway reveals an old textiles manufacturing warehouse, biodiesel production tanks...

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Lucia Micarelli’s performance of “Kashmir”

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If you can, wait until night to watch this video. This is not just another classical music concert. A violinist plays barefoot, wild yet controlled just enough. Her sound...

February 18, 2020

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Pauli Murray’s love poetry

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Murray's poems on history and politics are passionate and sweeping. But her love poems are more quiet, although still sensual and earthy. Here are six of Pauli Murray's love...

February 17, 2020

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are 7 movie scenes of love and romance (Spoilers)

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The English Patient (1996): “Cathedral paintings” One of the most romantic scenes in cinema. Hana (Juliette Binoche), a vibrant and capable nurse who takes care of the titular...

February 15, 2020

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Let’s eat! “A Bite of China,” bubble teas, and Ina Garten’s lemon bars

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Let’s eat! “A Bite of China” was originally posted in July. Here, I’m updating it with some writing on bubble teas and Ina Garten’s lemon bars. Enjoy! “A Bite...

February 7, 2020

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Memories of the Odd Fellows tract from Ron Sutherland. Photos by the Ghost of Odd Fellows

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Ron Sutherland, chief scientist with the Wildlands Network who led the successful activist efforts to save the 79,000-acre Hoffmann Forest in 2015, recalls what the Odd Fellows tract looked like in the ’80s, when he was a Boy Scout roaming through the woods and playing capture the flag. I asked Dr. Sutherland what he remembered, and his memories came out uninterrupted and still very clear from more than 30 years ago. Here are his comments. The photos are by the anonymous “Ghost of Odd Fellows.” The full portfolios of the photos can be seen here and here. It was the place to go in camp for our Boy Scout troop. We didn’t need to do much. We could just go out there on pretty short notice and go out and camp. It was kind of a home away from home for the Boy Scouts. It took all of ten minutes to get there. We didn’t feel like we were in a small, tightly regulated state park. It felt like it was the woods that...

Seafood in the summer

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By Matt Goad A door slams shut behind a satisfied customer and another door opens with a new customer not far behind. This happens all day long, three days a week in the small, cinder-block shack that houses Tom Robinson’s Carolina Seafood of Carrboro. With a small staff, the business manages to get to the North Carolina coast every Wednesday to get fish and...

July 28, 2020

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Photo gallery: Scenes in downtown Chapel Hill

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UNC students working on Franklin Street. The margaritas at Bandido’s. Murals in hidden places. The photos covering the walls of Sutton’s Drug Store. Some things have not changed in downtown Chapel Hill. Long-time photographer Karen Tam, who has worked for The News & Observer and The Raleigh Times, and freelanced for The Associated Press, spent a recent Friday afternoon capturing the goings-on. See the...

July 24, 2020

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What are Chapel Hill’s plans for downtown?

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On a recent afternoon, Antoni Sustaita, owner of Bandido’s Mexican Café on Franklin Street, opens the makeshift takeout window. The awning and lights over Amber Alley have been removed, and the ground is still wet from rain. At the alley’s back entrance sits heavy machinery for the construction of a nightclub, called StillLife Nightclub, on the roof of Sutton’s Drug Store. Sustaita says through...

July 8, 2020

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Save RDU Forest issue: What happened with the “sunset clause”?

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In the contentious fight between Umstead Coalition and activists, Wake Stone Corp. and Raleigh-Durham International Airport, one major point of argument has been over the “sunset clause.” That is the clause in the permit for the existing Wake Stone mine that states how long the mine can operate. That mine, located off Harrison Avenue, has been operating since 1981. The gaps in the trees...

June 17, 2020

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How The ArtsCenter has changed is the saddest thing to happen to Carrboro

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The lights keep going out in Carrboro. What will happen if The ArtsCenter's toxic Jones Ferry project is actually built?

May 25, 2020

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