Record #:

28127

Author(s):

Geary, Bob

Abstract:

A voluntary system of public financing is available for the first time to candidates for three of the Council of State offices. Part of a pilot program, public funding for these offices may not last beyond this year, but it is helping candidates run for office and reducing the influence special interests have on candidates. Candidates discuss the benefits of the program and how it has allowed them to run for office.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 15, April 2008, p4 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Campaign funds--Laws and legislation; Politics--North Carolina

Record #:

28128

Author(s):

Abstract:

Three Moore County neighborhoods have made significant progress toward improving public services sin 2005. After the Pinehurst golf course hosted the US Open, the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights has helped bring basic municipalities to surrounding communities. Water and sewer services, police protection, and traffic lights have been brought to the predominately small African-American communities of Jackson Hamlet, Lost City, Midway, Waynor Road, and Monroe Town near the golf course. Neighborhood leaders are now offering workshops to teach other communities how to secure local funding to help their communities.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 15, April 2008, p7 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Municipal services; Moore County--Description and travel; Pinehurst--Description and travel

Record #:

28129

Author(s):

Rodgers, V.C.

Abstract:

Political cartoons of North Carolina’s Governors and US Senators that appeared in Independent Weekly and the Durham Morning Herald are collected in a timeline.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 15, April 2008, p46 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cartoonists; Political cartoons; Herald-Sun (Durham)

Record #:

28130

Author(s):

Ariail, Kate Dobbs

Abstract:

Progressive changes have taken place in the Triangle art scene and the area’s performance venues over the last 25 years. There have been changes in the location of the state art museum, renovations at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, the addition of Durham’s Performing Arts Center, and renovations of UNC’s Memorial Hall. The history of opera, ballet, theater over the last 25 years and their place in the community are also detailed.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 15, April 2008, p49 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Research Triangle Metropolitan Area--Description; Art and society--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area; History--North Carolina; Piedmont--History

Record #:

28131

Author(s):

Cheshire, Godfrey

Abstract:

The history of how the Triangle area became open to art films over the last 25 years is detailed by local critic Godfrey Cheshire. Part of what helped the film scene thrive was writing about the films and the inclusion of local film festivals. The area will likely not become a popular place for filmmaking and the scene is changing with the internet and an aging movie-going population.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 15, April 2008, p51 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Film Industry; Film-making--North Carolina; Movie industry--North Carolina