Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the toppling of a Confederate statue on government-owned property in Durham. Kokai offered these comments during an Aug. 15, 2017, appearance…
And again. More corporate welfare. This time it’s $77,000 in city incentives, which will be met by a matching One North Carolina grant to an Irish company that already has a…
Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson took an interest in the Duke lacrosse case in 2006, following the revolting Group of 88 campaign of sentence first, trial afterwards. He began…
Thanks to the Triangle Business Journal for reporting on this story about Durham musician Tom Merrigan’s use of a social networking site to pitch his dream of playing piano and,…
Here are three ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes that will be familiar to early Baby Boomers. Dorothy Collins, the singer in the second ad, was a star of the TV…
Found this photo on the great photo blog site Shorpy.com. It says it was taken in Durham in 1940. Click here for a VERY large version.
Preliminary Results for Durham Public Schools (Percentage change in proficiency from 2008-09 to 2009-10 school years.) Grade 3‐8 Reading Proficiency All +2.1% African‐Amer. +4.8% Hispanic +3.4% Economically Disadvantaged +6% Limited…
William (B.J.) Lawson . . . . . . 51.83 Frank Roche. . . . . . . . . . 33.71 David Burnett . . . . . .…
“Democratic Party Official Charged With Satanic Ritual Sex Crimes” That’s Power Line‘s headline on the strange Durham story involving a couple of high-profile local lefties, one of them a local…
Durham officials are worried their efforts to put a 1 percent meals tax on the ballot “may be in jeopardy” as Durham County Commissionier Ellen Reckhow puts it.
I dropped by the Ninth Street Bakery this morning for a Danish and a cup of coffee. I began going to the bakery when it was in its original location…
I saw my first Smart Car in Durham on Friday. It was traveling south on Gregson and it looked like this one: With gasoline approaching $4 per gallon, and with…