Monday morning, you may well feel like wiping your brow and thinking "Whew! Glad that's over!"
Published: Dec. 30, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
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Walter Cole once burst into a courtroom, where a trial was in progress, so he could ask the judge to send him back to jail.
Published: Dec. 16, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
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It's been a rough couple of weeks for inner-Durham's eat-meet-greet-and-sip set.
Published: Dec. 2, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
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Now that the leaves are down and the landscape humbug bleak, you're no doubt full of season's spirit.
Published: Nov. 25, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
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Durham County took another step this week toward a new courthouse, exercising its right of eminent domain to grab the requisite U-Haul property on Mangum Street.
Published: Nov. 18, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
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Wise: Most Bull Citizens are easygoing folk. Still, sometimes some people get upset about some things.
Published: Nov. 4, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: It's the weekend before Halloween, which reminds us that we still have two months left before Christmas. In our little corner of Carolina, it also gives us pause to reflect.
Published: Oct. 28, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: These last few days, the Morris Street maple has hit its autumnal stride.
Published: Oct. 21, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: It must have been the timing. Really -- even in Durham, when there's lead in the water and fire in the dump and all city officials can say is how much they didn't know (why are you not surprised?) -- it probably isn't the most auspicious ti
Published: Oct. 7, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: Fall began today. At three minutes past midnight, according to the trusty Old Farmer's Almanac. That means the shadows are longer, the days are shorter and Christmas is right around the corner.
Published: Sep. 23, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: There's a state historic marker on Fayetteville Street honoring the Bull City Blues, and the Stanford Warren Library got a Blind Boy Fuller Blues Hall of Fame plaque for its re-opening gala Thursday morning.
Published: Sep. 9, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: Those wonderful folks at the Triangle Transit Authority may not be giving up their dream of a railroad carrying commuters between inner Raleigh and inner Durham, but they do appear to be backing off.
Published: Aug. 26, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: Our Convention & Visitors Bureau has been laboring the last year or so to "re-brand" our Bull City.
Published: Aug. 12, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
The water bill came the other day. Seeing the bottom line, there was nothing for it but a swig of the Bull City's best, but wait --
Published: Jul. 29, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: The troubled Durham Housing Authority is unloading one of its white elephants, the old Golden Belt properties across the tracks from downtown. Entrepreneur Andy Rothschild is taking the 7.5-acre site off the troubled taxpayers' hands to the tune of a
Published: Jul. 15, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
For the second time in 11 years, a proposal that could let Rougemont become Durham County's second municipality has died in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Jul. 1, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: The old Lowe's Grove School is just about gone. By late this week, the crew clearing ground for a branch library at Alston Avenue and N.C. 54 had turned four of the five remaining buildings into a heap of scrap lumber and bricks.
Published: Jun. 17, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: Blue Devil Ventures, redevelopers of the old W. Duke Sons & Co. property -- known more recently (since 1911 or so) as Liggett & Myers -- is about to get started with the second phase of its West Village project.
Published: Jun. 3, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise: In much of Durham last week, nobody came to take out the trash.
Published: May. 20, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: Today, the Historic Preservation Society is running its annual Old Durham Tour, this year going through Old North Durham.
Published: May. 6, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: Durham County observes its 125th birthday next week. The observance falls between the April 16 anniversary of Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis' proclamation of our county's existence and the May 2 anniversary of the commissioners' first meeting.
Published: Apr. 22, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: The fair is in town this week - actually, two of them. One at County Stadium on North Duke Street, and the other in the parking lot of the long-gone K-mart on Avondale Drive.
Published: Apr. 8, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: Once upon a time, it is written, Uncle Billie -- aka William James -- Duke was remembered as the best of his bunch.
Published: Mar. 25, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: There is trouble with the courts of Durham County, but citizens can rest easy. Their officialdom is on the case.
Published: Mar. 11, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: Our City Hall released results of its latest citizen-satisfaction survey the other day and, as one would expect, interpreted the results to say Bull Citizens are "generally satisfied with city services."
Published: Feb. 25, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: No surprise, R. Kelly Bryant Jr. has some history with the Durham Freeway pedestrian bridge near Alston Avenue.
Published: Feb. 11, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: It is written, "Divergences of thought and action, and factionalism born of rivalries have appeared down through the pages of history as obstacles in the path of advancement by communities."
Published: Feb. 4, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: So a former member of the Durham Housing Authority's board came to a board meeting the other day and declared that it ought to quit airing "our dirty laundry in public."
Published: Jan. 28, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: For decades now, the Downtown Loop has seemed an inadvertent metaphor for Durham in general: a loop, leading around and 'round and going only back where it started. Durham, a place where the more things change the more they stay the same.
Published: Jan. 21, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
Wise:: Durham cops are riding shotgun on city buses in reaction to the latest unpleasantness involving local public transit. City Manager Patrick Baker said the other day he hoped the measure would increase riders' levels of security and comfort.
Published: Jan. 14, 2006 12:30 AM | Full story
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