Despite all the warning signals—the surprising sanity in Sacramento that pulled the plug on California’s $77 million high speed rail project–not to mention the decline in transit ridership— mostly due…
The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, the city’s only explicitly and proudly segregated group, will see a change in leadership soon. It’s chairwoman, the abrasive and corrosive…
The Friends of Durham, the ostensible “business friendly” PAC among left-wing and socialist PACS that dominate the Friendly City of Business and Commerce, jumped in bed with the snake-oil sellers…
Durham’s Human Relations Commission has been a waste of time and money, and has been a political patronage dumping ground for decades. It should have been disbanded long ago. But…
For now, Durham County commissioners have voted 3-2 not to put the quarter-cent sales tax hike before voters in November. Why? Lavonia Allison, the chairperson of the Durham Committee on…
The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, the only racially-segregated-by-rule organization in Durham, and maybe North Carolina, pulled more hi-jinks last week: Only 18 of the estimated 100…
From the News & Observer: “The wrong time, the wrong priorities,” said Lavonia Allison, chairwoman of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People and one of the opponents…
The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People and Americans for Prosperity North Carolina — two organizations that typically take different approaches to public policy questions — have joined…
Thomas Sowell’s latest column, “The Audacity of Rhetoric,” pulls the veil off of the Obama hoax, but it also inadvertently describes the wrongheadedness of most of Durham’s black leadership: Why…
Once again Durham looks like a Third World country with Third World standards. We have a police chief who kept 30 armed robberies a secret for fear of causing panic.…
That’s a description of the BBC, which preaches diversity but doesn’t practice it. Sort of reminds me of the People’s Alliance, Durham’s far-left political-action committee. To be fair though, using…
Northgate Mall in Durham has survived since the 1960’s due to its ability to adapt. Throughout its 40-plus years, it has managed to remain relevant and up-to-date with creative management…