Record #:

4192

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

Valle Jones and Lee Ventura are co-owners of Indra group LLC, a real estate company established by Ventura in 1996. The company is also the Research Triangle's only women-owned development firm. Development is an area usually dominated by men. Currently the company is developing SouthCourt, a $20 million, mixed-use project in Durham.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 20, May 1999, p15-16, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Women in business--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area; Indra Group LLC; Jones, Valle; Ventura, Lee

Record #:

4422

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

In a special short session, the North Carolina General Assembly found relief funds for victims of Hurricane Floyd's flooding by cutting the budgets of state departments. Critics charge that the budget cuts will hurt state operations and that the legislature should have increased the state income tax temporarily or levied a sales tax instead.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 16 Issue 51, Dec 1999, p15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hurricane Floyd, 1999; Disaster relief

Record #:

4888

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

Solow examines the recent North Carolina General Assembly activities and lists five of the best and five of the worst ideas of the session. Among the best are raises for public school teachers and state employees and closing loopholes in the state's campaign finance laws. Among the worst are eliminating the \"Willie M. Program\" for violent children with mental illness.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 30, July 2000, p13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina. General Assembly

Record #:

5003

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

To help provide health care to children of low income families, the federal government proposes to give North Carolina $21 million. However, the state must come up with $7 million in matching funds to get the money, which, at the moment, the state is reluctant to do. In the meantime, health care is being denied to thousands of identified children.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 18 Issue 9, Feb 2001, p16-19, 21, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Children--Health and hygiene; Poor children

Record #:

5771

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

Despite poverty and other barriers to health care, first-generation Latinas have the healthiest babies in North Carolina, with fewer low birthweight and pre-term babies. Solow discusses reasons for this.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 20 Issue 4, Jan 2003, p22-27, 29, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hispanic Americans--Health and hygiene; Hispanic American infants

Record #:

7003

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

In this Independent interview, United States Representative Mel Watt of Charlotte, the new head of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses issues of interest to the Democratic Party. These include abortion, gay marriage, the Iraq War, and voter disenfranchisement.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 2, Jan 2005, p25-27, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

United States. Congress. House of Representatives

Record #:

7032

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

Susan Delaney, who practices in Carrboro, is a graduate of one of the country's few accredited schools for naturopaths. Delaney wants North Carolina to join twelve other states that license naturopathic physicians and set standards for their training. She feels this is the only way to protect the public from untrained practitioners in her field of alternative medicine. The General Assembly is exploring licensing, but a major roadblock to licensing is the North Carolina Medical Association.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Jan 2005, p14-15, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Naturopaths--Carrboro; Naturopathy--Laws and legislation

Record #:

7221

Author(s):

Solow, Barbara

Abstract:

Domestic violence occurs across many levels of society. Usually the focus has been on individual victims and batterers after the violence has happened. A new approach sees the violence as a preventable public health problem. The focus moves away from the abused and abuser to the larger community. It stresses educating people about beliefs and behaviors that lead to domestic violence, as well as those that keep it from happening. The program targets groups and settings where anti-violence strategies can be most effective. Pilot projects are aimed at children, men, adolescents, and communities of color because research has shown they are most at risk.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 20, May 2005, p22-25, 27, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Family violence