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20263
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Many struggling homeless families in the Durham area look to solicitation to support themselves, but with the City's revised panhandling ordinances, they are breaking the law. The Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee is calling for lessened restrictions on panhandling in the area.
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20268
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George Holt, Director of Performing Arts and Film Programs,is the man behind the successful 17-year run of the North Carolina Museum of Art's outdoor amphitheater, which brings in musical guests from around the country with particular connection to North Carolina and its music. For this, he has earned a 2013 Indies Arts Award.
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20269
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For several years now, Trevor Schoonmaker has been the curator of Contemporary Art at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art. Within this time, Schoonmaker has brought some of the most exciting exhibits to the Nasher Museum, earning him a 2013 Indies Arts Award.
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20271
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Shawn and Karen Galvin have received a 2013 Indies Arts Award for New Music Raleigh, which promotes living composers and uses modern music as a conduit back to classical.
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20276
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A 7,000 acre development seeks to changes the face of small town Pittsboro, potentially increasing the 4,000 person population to more than 60,000 people over the next 35 years.
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20277
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Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP since 2006, leads a new era of progressive politics, focusing on issues of unemployment, health care, education, voting rights, and equality, during the Moral Monday demonstrations.
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20335
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In North Carolina, 1.6 million people have criminal records, and 92 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks, leading to a 50 percent chance a person with a criminal record will not receive a chance at a job interview. These numbers are exacerbated by the fact that North Carolina is one of two states that charge 16 and 17 year olds as adults. But attorneys for Legal Aid of North Carolina are helping those overshadowed by their youth records, expunge their misdemeanor offenses, allowing them to get jobs and lease apartments.
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20337
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Bull City Summer is a yearlong multimedia project to document the happenings in the lives of those at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. This blog features the work of local photographers and writers that focus on the regional baseball scene.
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20338
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The Durham bulls baseball team has the best record in the International League and are leading American professional baseball with 69 victories for this year.
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With the help of co-founders Cicely Mitchell and Al Strong, the Art of Cool Project is turning the Triangle into an epicenter for jazz music. The Project, which is devoted to the preservation, protection, and promotion of jazz, books concerts large and small, expensive and free, hosts markets, workshops, and special events.
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Chatham Park is a development project for eastern Chatham County intended to a mix-use project. Currently, plans include 22,000 homes and 13 million square feet for research facilities in a 7,120 acre area east of Pittsboro, the largest project of its kind for the area. The author attended the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners meeting on August 12th and reports on feedback from citizens and board members.
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The National Soccer Hall of Fame was once located in Oneonta, New York. The institution closed its doors in 2010 and the museum's collections is now stored in a Hillsborough warehouse. The author discusses the vast amount of history in storage, the history of the former soccer museum, and argues for the erection of a new facility to house soccer's artifacts dating back to the 1860s when the first American soccer match occurred.
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20669
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Gavin Smith was a red-shirt freshman defensive tackle for North Carolina State University Wolfpack. He is currently serving 6-8 years in the Morrison Correctional Facility in Hoffman, NC after being convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl. His case is now being reviewed by The North Carolina Court of Appeals on the basis that the prosecutor introduced prejudicial evidence concerning another incident between Smith and a young girl. The Court will determine a ruling sometime in the next few months.
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20670
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An American for Prosperity Foundation, a Koch brother funded institution, ice cream van has been parked in the Raleigh District Drive lot for approximately three months. The van appears to be abandoned but has yet to be removed by the state's Department of Transportation. The department's spokesperson Jennifer Garifo, responded that the license plate information will be recorded and owner contacted and given a reasonable amount of time to remove the politically-slanted van.
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20671
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Governor McCrory and the Republican governing body in the state refused to cooperate with Obamacare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act. The author examines the state government's decision based on the Governor's biased advisors. He also discusses implications of failing to cooperate with Obamacare and how it will potentially cost the state money and jobs.
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