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1814
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Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan formed Carrboro's Merge Records with the mission of documenting alternative music in North Carolina during the early 1990s. The record label's fifth anniversary CD, Five Rows of Teeth, testifies to its success.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 30, July 1994,
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1815
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Former UNC-Chapel Hill police officer Keith Edwards has run the gauntlet of legal and bureaucratic obstacles during her race and sex discrimination suit against the university.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 30, July 1994,
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1816
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Yeoman presents the voting records during the 1994 short session of legislators representing Wake, Durham, Orange, and Northern Chatham Counties, to reveal their stances on various issues.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 30, July 1994,
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1825
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Chatham County has experienced a dramatic increase in population in the past two decades, leading some to speculate on an expansion of the Triangle to include the county.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 32, Aug 1994,
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1826
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Bucolic Chatham County has attracted and inspired artists for many years. A continual migration of artists to the county has been unobtrusive, which is acceptable to the artists themselves.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 32, Aug 1994,
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1850
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Environmental activists and concerned citizens are clashing with the state government over the safety and adequacy of the PCB landfill in Warren County, which was constructed in 1982 to store soil that had been illegally sprayed with PCBs.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 34, Aug 1994,
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1851
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This is the first in a series of articles and pictorials documenting North Carolina's community health-care projects, which make health care accessible to uninsured people and to people in remote areas of the state.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 34, Aug 1994,
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1852
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Mark Hewitt has brought his pottery-making talents, philosophies, and sensibilities from England to Chatham County, where he and his wife have constructed a workshop and kiln. Folks come from all over the state to admire and purchase his pots.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 34, Aug 1994,
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1883
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This is the second in a series of articles and pictorials documenting North Carolina's community health-care projects, which make health care accessible to uninsured people and to remote areas.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 35, Aug 1994,
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1884
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The prospect of introducing the latest technology into North Carolina's schools has students, teachers, parents, and administrators excited and eager.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 35, Aug 1994,
p12-14, il
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1885
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Michaels reviews Louis Farrakhan's speech at North Carolina Central University.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 35, Aug 1994,
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1886
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Burtman reviews Louis Farrakhan's speech at North Carolina Central University on Friday, August 26.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 35, Aug 1994,
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1898
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In the 1990s, heroin use, which had declined in Durham, increased, placing a strain on the city's criminal justice system and substance abuse programs. The heroin problem is one that crosses boundaries of age, sex, and race.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 36, Sept 1994,
p10-13, il
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1899
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Threshold, an East Durham rehabilitation program for the seriously mentally ill, seeks to improve the quality of life of its members and to prevent unnecessary hospitalization.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 36, Sept 1994,
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1906
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The Year of the Coast Conference marked the 20th anniversary of North Carolina's Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA). Ruley discusses land use planning on Topsail Island to assess CAMA's successes and failures.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 37, Sept 1994,
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