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29025
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In 2007, the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) sold twenty-acres to a Philadelphia-based company to develop affordable housing for low-income students at North Carolina Central University. Since then, however, no development has proceeded. Now the DHA is trying to repurchase the property.
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Edwin Reyes-Guillen, a Durham man with no criminal record, was arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. United States Marshals were looking for a fugitive, but arrested Reyes-Guillen suspecting he was an illegal immigrant. His upcoming trial will determine whether he will be deported to Honduras.
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The number of craft breweries and distilleries in North Carolina has substantially increased in recent years. Some brewers and distillers say the state’s distribution laws are keeping their industries from reaching their full potential. Two proposed bills could change alcohol distribution but there is much debate between progressive and conservative political interests.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 14, April 2017,
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Jairo Garcia del Cid fled from gangs and violence in El Salvador, arriving in Durham in May 2016. He enrolled in high school and planned to apply for permanent asylum in North Carolina, but in March he was arrested for larceny of a motor vehicle. Garcia del Cid could be deported because the Durham County Sheriff’s Office does not participate in a federal immigration program.
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Until 2014, North Carolina explicitly denied gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. The topic was a controversial debate and financial advisors argued that accepting same-sex marriage would have a positive economic impact to the state. When same-sex marriage became legal in North Carolina, the local wedding industry skyrocketed.
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28968
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Michael Peterson, a former Durham mayoral candidate and Herald-Sun columnist, was convicted in 2003 for murdering his wife and pleaded innocent. A few months before a May 2017 retrial, he changed his plea to guilty but maintains innocence. After fifteen years, the case concludes but provides little closure to his family.
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Vinny Valdivia, a former staffer at Chapel Hill’s DSI Comedy Theater, wrote a post on Facebook that prompted a flood of comments detailing more than a decade of alleged intimidation, manipulation, sexual misconduct, and favoritism that ultimately led to his resignation. Former DSI performers say a culture of misogyny had taken root at the theater long before.
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Durham Mayor Bill Bell has attempted to reduce poverty and revitalize inner-city neighborhoods for the past sixteen years. During this time, Durham’s downtown has seen a renaissance but the poverty rate has risen. A new initiative called Transformation in Ten is a coordinated effort to address the causes and symptoms of poverty, including housing, finance, jobs, public safety, health and education.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 22, June 2017,
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Durham’s new metered parking system went into effect on Monday. Revenue from the meters is projected to be over one-million dollars per year, and will go toward increasing, maintaining, and providing security for parking downtown.
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The Durham County Sheriff’s Office recently installed video monitors in the jail’s lobby to offer a safer alternative to moving inmates around the jail for visits, and to give inmates more visitation opportunities. Critics, however, contend that video visitation is a thinly veiled move to eliminate in-person visits altogether and profit from incarceration by eventually charging visitors to use the service.
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At the base of a Confederate statue known as Silent Sam on the University of North Carolina, a community of students has come to protest the monument. Although the University says it cannot remove the monument without approval of the North Carolina Historical Commission, under a 2015 law, students vow to not leave the site until Silent Sam is removed.
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A proposal to increase the age of juvenile jurisdiction in North Carolina could keep about eleven thousand teenagers out of the state's adult court system each year, beginning in December 2019. This would direct sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds charged with misdemeanors and two classes of nonviolent felonies to juvenile court.
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Durham’s mayoral race was originally set as Mayor Pro Tem Cora Cole-McFadden, a longtime council member and city employee, versus Steve Schewel, a four-year councilman, former school board member, and an activist. Recently, Cole-McFadden withdrew her mayoral candidacy. Two new mayoral candidates are former councilman Farad Ali and Pierce Freelon, a musician, professor, and entrepreneur.
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29095
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Durham County has one of the highest eviction rates in North Carolina. For those most vulnerable to rising rents and gentrification, eviction creates a cycle of debt, poor credit, and instability. A new program aims to provide those facing eviction with the resources they need to stay in their homes and keep an eviction judgment off their rental histories.
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In 1997, Lilian Cardona and her family fled to North Carolina from Guatemala to escape violence, war, and drugs. With no criminal record, a valid work permit, and a baby due in May, Lilian fears she will be deported under President Trump’s new immigration policies.
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