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Wake County schools have requested an extra fifty-six million dollars, partly to offset an unfunded class-size mandated by the North Carolina General Assembly. If the money is approved by the school board and county commission, there would be a fourteen-percent increase over the county taxpayers’ budget.
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American Rivers, a national conservation organization, listed North Carolina’s Neuse River as the seventh most endangered river in the United States. They blamed hog and poultry industries for contaminating the waters. Advocates are urging legislators to restore a voluntary buyout program so that water resources can recover.
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Musicians struggle to make money through streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Pandora, but the same platforms offer other opportunities for artists to build their careers. For Raleigh musician Al Riggs and many of his peers, online platforms are easy ways to get their music heard without the hassles of a record label.
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Bikram Yoga Durham offers goat yoga and meditation classes at Hux Family Farm. Amanda Avery and her husband Matthew Hux own the farm where they raise Nigerian dwarf goats, a miniature breed known for being friendly. Yoga with goats embodies a desire to reconnect with the natural world in a genuine and contemplative way.
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi, a University of North Carolina professor and poet, released a free e-cookbook and poetry chapbook called, “The New Economy Chapbook Volume 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017”. The book is a collaboration of local writers, students and home cooks from all over the country.
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Theft, a new comic book by two Duke University law professors, examines the history of theft in music. The comic is mostly concerned with the way musicians have borrowed from, emulated, and sampled one another; and how attempts at musical control, in history and modern times, are really attempts at social control.
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Catherine Edgerton, a Durham-based visual artist and musician, will display her multimedia journals at The Carrack Modern Art, as part of an exhibit called Bottled Light. It also features her kaleidoscopes, which are stained glass wheels with found objects. For Edgerton, both mediums are therapeutic ways of externalizing her head space in order to help others navigate their mental health issues.
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