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As city officials plan to develop a vibrant, residential downtown, many critics express concern that Raleigh will lose its character to high-rises and uniform buildings. The new plan intends to respond to the demand for more housing and to provide a public transit system, but urban development comes with a price.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 18, May 2015, p5-7, il Periodical Website
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After the city of Wilson created its own fiber Internet service in 2008, the city sought to expand this service throughout Wilson County. This system threatened large telecoms, like Time Warner Cable, that do not want the competition. The state of North Carolina, however, recently passed laws that require municipal telecoms to pay the same fee as private telecoms, like Suddenlink and Time Warner, effectively making it nearly impossible for other cities to create their own broadband network.
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The Raleigh Wake Citizens Association and 14 Wake voters filed a federal lawsuit to challenge Sen. Chad Barefoot, R-Wake and Franklin, who passed a redistricting bill. This bill ultimately created more white Republican districts, working to the benefit of Senator Barefoot.
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Sea levels are rising and Billman discusses what North Carolina is doing to counter this; though, it turns out, the state chooses to ignore the problem rather than face it head on.
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Advocates for medical marijuana regroup after a House Judiciary Committee denied House Bill 78, which would have allowed doctors to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes.
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State Sen. Warren Daniel explains why he is an advocate for restricting abortion access in the context of Senate Bill 604. Others worry, however, that the bill is a larger move to make abortion inaccessible to as many women as possible.
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Billman argues there is hostility from Republicans in Senate against growing and progressive metropolitan cities in North Carolina.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 25, June 2015, p6-7 Periodical Website
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Downtown Raleigh bars fight for the right to have outdoor drinking patios, regardless of downtown residents' oppositions to 'sidewalk drinking.'
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 24, June 2015, p6, il Periodical Website
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In the wake of the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court decision that same-sex marriage is legal, a Wake County same-sex couple discusses what the ruling means for their future and the future of United States society.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 26, July 2015, p8-9, il, por Periodical Website
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The North Carolina General Assembly does not require Raleigh contractors to pay employees living wages, nor will it raise minimum wage any time soon. Activists are pushing cities and employers to pay better than minimum wage.
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The North Carolina legislature recently passed the state budget after a 3-month discussion of the budget's components. The author highlights the biggest issues with the budget, which include topics such as regressive taxation, education, light rail projects, the environment, and Planned Parenthood funding.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 38, September 2015, p8-9, il Periodical Website
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INDY’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Billman, reflects on his observations about the Triangle since he arrived in January. He learned that North Carolina is spread out, has numerous festivals and fairs, a plethora of hiking trails, a great Greenway system, and unpredictable weather. Raleigh is a huge small town trying to become a big city and it’s expensive, but the people are unnervingly nice.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 51, Dec 2015, p5-6, il Periodical Website
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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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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p23-24, il Periodical Website
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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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