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Our Endorsements
We base our endorsements on candidates' answers to our questionnaires, voting records and meeting attendance, background checks through public records databases, published news stories and shoe-leather reporting.
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Candidate Questionnaires
Candidate for Pittsboro Mayor
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Candidate Questionnaires
Candidate for Pittsboro Mayor
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Take-Along Voting Guides
Early voting runs Sept. 17-Oct. 3, with Election Day Oct. 6. During early voting, you can register to vote and cast your ballot on the same day.
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Candidate Questionnaires
Candidate for Pittsboro Town Commissioner
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Candidate Questionnaires
Candidate for Pittsboro Town Commissioner
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Candidate Questionnaires
Candidate for Pittsboro Town Commissioner
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Take-Along Voting Guides
Early voting runs Sept. 17-Oct. 3, with Election Day Oct. 6. During early voting, you can register to vote and cast your ballot on the same day.
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Our Endorsements
To put it bluntly, if the Republicans get control of the school board, diversity will be junked, and there will be no pots of new money to replace it.
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Our Endorsements
Home to 129,545 people, Cary faces traffic, transit, environment and infrastructure issues—and an influx of strangers.
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Our Endorsements
Even in this time of financial dormancy, with construction projects stalled or dead across the city, the issue in Raleigh's local elections is growth.
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Our Endorsements
Revitalizing neglected neighborhoods, continuing the downtown renewal, keeping a handle on the city's crime problem, strengthening environmental regulations, embracing the regional transit plan are among the challenges facing Durham's elected officials.
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Now Serving
Plus, new restaurants: a second Chubby's; Angelina's Kitchen; Jessee's Café
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Film Review
I was struck by the similarities between Séraphine Louis and English singing sensation Susan Boyle.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Sept. 17, through Friday, Sept. 25
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Film Beat
This month, at the invitation of the Duke Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, two prominent voices from Israeli cinema are making an out-of-season visit to the Triangle.
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Film Review
Lorna's Silence is an appealing mixture of moral inquiry, social realism and crime melodrama.
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Orange County
Chapel Hill's main drag tries to recapture its eccentric, homegrown feel: Is it possible?
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Orange County
The people and companies that own the heart of Franklin Street range from places as far away as Santa Fe, East Lansing and Orlando, to homegrown property owners from Chapel Hill.
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Front Porch
The first thing I learned about jury duty, that most unloved of civic obligations, is that the state of North Carolina has rebranded it "jury service."
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Peripheral Visions
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Living Green
Turning corn into fuel using fossil fuel-powered machinery then shipping it in fossil-fuel powered tanker trucks offsets the ethanol's benefits.
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Queeries
Is it possible that you're misreading acts of friendship or kindness as sexual advances? Or is this a simple case of the "awkward crush," when a dyke becomes attracted to an unavailable straight woman?
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Gallery
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Record Review
The Pneurotics exist largely without a marketing angle other than "Grown folks make solid rock music, too."
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Music Feature
"A lot of people that knew me four years ago could never picture me living in a place like this. I'm one hundred times healthier than I ever was living up there."
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Song of the Week
Robison on ball caps, divorce and brotherly love
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Our guide to this week's shows
The Old Ceremony, Sunfold, The Future Kings of Nowhere, Datarock, Jolie Holland, Immortal Technique's Recession Tour, Asobi Seksu, Telefon Tel Aviv, 919 Noise Showcase, A Rooster for the Masses, Experimental Dental School
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Record Review
Raleigh hip-hop crew Kooley High has put individual gain in front of collective interest and advancement this year.
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Music Feature
"There are more interesting and creative ways to be original than some of the things that get labeled that way."
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Visual Art
In two installations, Crosby co-opts and reconfigures images and constructs of power.
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On the Boards
Cirque Productions and its Cirque Dreams "brands" have no relationship to the world-famous Cirque du Soleil, and it is important to understand that in order to avoid disappointment.
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TV
Anyone who casts even a cursory glance at Entertainment Weekly's cover at the supermarket checkout line knows that the cast of Seinfeld is joining the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Reading
Our Noise is a remarkably candid, thorough examination of not only Merge's uncommon blend of ethics, frugality and business savvy but also the label's interpersonal and financial problems.
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On the Boards
This is the first regional pairing of The Zoo Story, a classic Edward Albee one-act from 1958, with Homelife, his 2003 prequel.
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Theater
The Last Cargo Cult, Daisey's new stage work about materialism and faith, opens this week in Chapel Hill.
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Arts Feature
"With fashionSPARK, we set out to showcase local fashion talent in a pure, honest way. We support our designers all year long."
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On the Boards
Hair reminds us how the military draft, with its power to drastically affect people's lives, shook the complacency of the intelligentsia.
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Arts Feature
SPARKcon keeps the creative fires burning.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
The Best Spare Ribs!
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8 Days a Week
Holly Goddard Jones; more
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8 Days a Week
The Italian Actress; more
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8 Days a Week
Satch Hoyt; more
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8 Days a Week
They Might Be Giants; more
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8 Days a Week
Carrboro Music Festival; more
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8 Days a Week
Busdriver, Abstract Rude
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8 Days a Week
Sonny Rollins
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8 Days a Week
Drift; more
