Special Issues
2008 Citizen Awards
The Indy's Citizen Awards honor people and groups whose activism has positively impacted their communities, whether it's one neighborhood, a city or several counties.
26 Nov 2008

Karen Rindge: Waking up Wake County
WakeUP Wake County, a citizen organization with clout on the county's explosive growth issues, sputtered until Raleigh's Karen Rindge came along and took the reins.
By Bob Geary | 26 Nov 2008

GNAT: Creating real homeland security
One by one, the Granville Non-violent Action Team has persuaded most, if not all, elected officials to withdraw their support or actively oppose siting the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Butner.
By Lisa Sorg | 26 Nov 2008

Amanda Arrington: Good fences make good pets
Arrington is director of the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, a Durham-based nonprofit charged with a mission that seems contradictory: "We build dogs fences to set them free."
By Vernal Coleman | 26 Nov 2008

Gary Kueber: Preserving Durham
In nearly 800 posts on Endangered Durham, Kueber forces us to consider our development choices, and the way we view the Bull City.
By Matt Saldaña | 26 Nov 2008

Reggie Edwards: Listening changes lives
"Women need fellowship," Edwards says. "We need a place where we can come and be, and get built up. And it needs to be somewhere outside of a church, just the girls getting together in a safe place."
By Fiona Morgan | 26 Nov 2008

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