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Since 1979, Camp Kaleidoscope has been a fun-filled place where residents of Duke University Children's Hospital could visit during the summer and participate in youth activities that normally seemed to be "far out of reach." Although this program has seen 40 years of success, a new lawsuit has surfaced, accusing Duke of "covering up a disturbing incident" that forced the camp to shut down.
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President Trump’s recent executive order suspends all refugee admissions to the United States for 120 days. Most of the prohibited refugees are citizens of majority-Muslim countries, such as Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iran and Iraq. The implications are uncertain for the refugees who have already settled in North Carolina.
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28757
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Thousands of people gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina to protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump. This issue of Indy Week presents stories about this burgeoning movement, from the inauguration protests to the women’s marches.
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Indy Weekly compiled a list of twenty-seven reasons why they love North Carolina and the Triangle area. Among the list are reasons related to activism, theater and arts, food, culture, sports, community resilience, and history.
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In 1883, the poet Emma Lazarus imagined the Statue of Liberty as the lamp beside the golden door, an expression of how America imagined itself. But the nation’s relationship with immigrants has never been that simple, and is an even more complicated issue today. With the new presidency, Latin American immigrants in North Carolina question their future.
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According to the Congressional Budget Office, twenty-four million Americans will lose health insurance over the next decade. In North Carolina, individual-market premiums will rise over five-thousand dollars, the second highest increase in the country. Durham County provides a county-level map that compares subsidies and tax credits under the Affordable Care Act and the new American Health Care Act.
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INDY’s Best of the Triangle 2017 is an annual comprehensive guide of all the best things and places in the area. The guide is based on the collective wisdom of INDY readers and their votes. The general categories presented are restaurants and bars, health and body, shops and services, local hangouts and organizations.
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Last week, after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina’s legislative districts constitute racial gerrymanders, Governor Cooper ordered the General Assembly into special session to draw new maps. Lawmakers have not cooperated and now the issue is back with the district court.
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The Senate unveiled a new health care bill. The bill is a tax cut funded by taking money away from programs that provide health care to lower-income individuals, especially children and those with disabilities. An analysis predicts what would happen to North Carolina’s Medicaid recipients if the health care reform passes.
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Capitol Broadcasting is beginning its expansion of the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham. Last year it acquired the neighboring University Ford property, and now it seeks community input on how to use the eleven acres. Several ideas include the development of offices, affordable housing, and an entertainment complex.
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Nine-million dollars in annual tax cuts passed by the North Carolina legislature has caused local governments to raise taxes to better fund schools. Critics argue that the budget shortchanges students while enriching the wealthy. Proponents argue that the budget will dramatically increase teacher pay and improve public education outcomes.
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Bernie Sanders was brought to a halt as Hillary Clinton racked up big wins in North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio during last week’s primaries. But his political revolution prevailed by pushing Clinton to the left, eliciting firmer commitments on things like immigration, free trade, and environmental policy than Clinton would have made otherwise. The coalition he built will define leftist politics into the foreseeable future.
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North Carolina has fifty-two distilleries, the most of any state except Kentucky. TOPO, located in Chapel Hill, produces highly rated wheat-based products including vodka, gin, and whiskey. There are also places in the Triangle that produce mead, including Starrlight Mead in Pittsboro and Durham’s Honeygirl.
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House Bill 2, the anti-LGBTQ legislation, has devastated North Carolina’s image. Most of the bill’s economic damage will be on the state’s urban centers, especially the Triangle and Charlotte. Due to the state’s partisan gerrymander, nine out of ten lawmakers who supported the bill are running unopposed or won their previous election by a landslide.
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This year, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s thematic program dives deep into the conniving, idealistic world of presidential campaigns. A number of films cover elections during the 1960s to 2000s, president scandals, assassinations, and the beginnings of epochal social change.
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