Record #:

4196

Author(s):

Sturgis, Sue

Abstract:

With the federal government's cancellation of basic commodities price supports in 1996, the state's farmers received lower prices for items including hogs, soybeans, and tobacco. The Specialty-Crops Program, started in 1997, seeks to develop niche crops for farmers to supplement lost income. Echinacea, a plant with healing properties, is being studied as a possible niche crop.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 12, Mar 1999, p13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Agricultural diversification; New crops

Record #:

4197

Author(s):

Kicklighter, Kirk

Abstract:

Wearing apparel displaying college logos is often produced in third-world sweatshops. A Duke-logo baseball cap costs $20, and the university receives $1.50 through licensing. However, production costs only about eight cents in workers' wages. In 1997, some Duke students organized Students Against sweatshops to protest for better working conditions in factories that produce Duke-logo licensed material.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 12, Mar 1999, p13 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Duke University; Trademarks

Record #:

4200

Author(s):

Ariail, Kate Dobbs

Abstract:

Charlotte's Tryon Center, opening in September 1999, will be more than a local arts council. Housed in an old burned church that was rebuilt as studios and offices through a $7 million grant from Bank of America, the center seeks to become a significant visual arts center in the Southeast. Plans include local artist support and an artist-in-residence program providing grants for nationally and internationally known artists.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 16, Apr 1999, p34, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Arts--Charlotte; Tryon Center (Charlotte)

Record #:

4240

Author(s):

Potari, David

Abstract:

In 1998, Charlotte became the Southeast's first city to install cameras at selected intersections to catch red-light violators. Results showed a 70 percent decline in violations and 25 percent drop in accidents at these intersections. Other cities, including Raleigh and Chapel Hill, are now considering the program. An area of concern in using such an approach is making certain ticketed individuals have an opportunity to appeal.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 18, May 1999, p17, 18, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Electronic traffic controls; Traffic safety; Traffic violations

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 #:

4508

Author(s):

Geary, Bob

Abstract:

With the population rising in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area, mass transit is a must. However, feuding between the Triangle Transit Authority and the Department of Transportation is keeping a rail system from becoming a reality. One area of dispute is the number of track miles to be moved. TTA says the DOT's mileage request would double project cost and add years to the completion date. Unless the two can agree, the region must seek other solutions to its traffic problems.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 8, Feb 2000, p15-17, 19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Local transit--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area

Record #:

4526

Author(s):

O'Neill, Patrick

Abstract:

The Independent talked to activists throughout the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area and asked them to identify the ten important social justice campaigns needing citizen involvement in 2000. Among those identified were campaign finance reform, support for farmworkers, and a halt to the death penalty. O'Neill gives a brief description of each campaign and lists contact persons and phone numbers.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Jan 2000, p15-17, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Political activists--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area

Record #:

4531

Author(s):

Livingston, Beth

Abstract:

Born in Virginia in 1801, Thomas Day, a free African-American craftsman, came to Milton in 1825. He established a cabinetmaking business and created furniture that is as highly prized today as it was in its own time. He is considered the state's most famous cabinetmaker and furniture craftsman. That he survived and thrived in the early half of the 19th-century is even more remarkable. Among his clients were two governors and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Jan 2000, p48-49, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American artisans--Milton; Cabinetmakers--Milton; Day, Thomas, 1801-1861; Free Blacks--Milton

Record #:

4538

Author(s):

O'Neill, Patrick

Abstract:

The Research Triangle Metropolitan Area has a long history of churches that are deeply involved in fighting for social justice. Unitarian Universalists and Quakers have the longest tradition in the area, but social-justice agendas stretch across denominations.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 2, Jan 2000, p12-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Church and social problems--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area

Record #:

4707

Author(s):

O'Neill, Patrick

Abstract:

Carolina Power & Light Company plans to increase the number of spent nuclear fuel-rod assemblies that it stores in containment pools at Wake County's Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant. This would make the plant the country's largest storage facility of this type. The plan has placed the company at odds with eleven local governments and an increasing number of concerned citizens.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 1, Jan 2000, p12-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Carolina Power & Light Co. (CP&L); Nuclear fuel rods; Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant (New Hill)

Record #:

4710

Author(s):

Hyman, Frank

Abstract:

The construction industry flourishes in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area. However, construction and demolition landfills fill up rapidly, In fiscal year 1997-1998, Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties buried 330,000 tons of this waste. Preventing the loss of more open spaces to landfills each year requires more recycling of this waste. Proponents say builders will recycle when there is training for the building industry, local sites for dropping off recyclables, and high landfill fees for this type of waste.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 2, Jan 2000, p17, 19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Recycling (Waste, etc.); Construction industry--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area--Waste disposal

Record #:

4711

Author(s):

Manual, John

Abstract:

Clear-cutting in Chatham County is rapidly bringing down forests and woodlots. The technique allows trees to be cut, then ground into wood chips on the spot using one of the eighteen modular chip mills operating around the state. New markets, land for development, and farmers needing extra cash are factors supporting clear-cutting. Opponents argue that mobile chip mills make clear-cutting easier and are seeking to halt new chip mill construction until their effect on soil, wildlife, and water quality can be determined.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 5, Feb 2000, p21-23, 25, 26, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Clearcutting--Chatham County; Wood chips industry--Chatham County

Record #:

4712

Author(s):

Harmon, Frank

Abstract:

New schools buildings have evolved along with urban sprawl, adopting a shopping mall format of a large building, over a thousand students, and a large parking lot, all sitting on forty acres. Educators and parents feel such schools have a different effect on students than smaller neighborhood ones. Harmon contrasts Raleigh's Underwood School, built in 1926 on Glenwood Avenue, with McDougle School, built in 1996 near Carrboro.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 6, Feb 1999, p15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

School buildings--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area

Record #:

4758

Author(s):

Ariail, Kate Dobbs

Abstract:

Over the past decade a number of changes have taken place at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. The museum entrance has been redesigned; the Museum Park Theater has been built; work on the sculpture garden has started; and the galleries for African, Oceanic, and Native American art have reopened on a new exhibition level.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Mar 2000, p23, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Museum of Art; Museums--Raleigh

Record #:

4759

Author(s):

Klinger, Deborah

Abstract:

Raleigh's Carolina Ballet troupe has eleven male and thirteen female dancers. With one exception, all the male dancers are from foreign countries. Though tryouts were held, no male American dancers could pass muster. Artistic director Robert Weiss explains that larger companies in major cities like New York and San Francisco get the best male dancers. Such companies have bigger budgets and can pay dancers better salaries. Also the negative public attitude in the United States toward boys participating in ballet limits the pool of candidates.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Mar 2000, p30-31, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ballet companies--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area; Carolina Ballet (Raleigh); Ballet dancing for men--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area