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Holidays in bygone Bull City

Mass transit breaks down! Judge sets violent perpetrators loose! Missing husband suddenly reappears! Published: Nov. 26, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Send us rain and wisdom

Uncle Billie Duke, farmer and part-time Methodist exhorter of the century before last, had a prayer for precipitation. Published: Nov. 19, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Landmark is back at Duke

The Sower is back on duty, in case you noticed he had been away. Published: Nov. 12, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Issue deserves attention

Bill Anderson, a past president of Durham's Inter Neighborhood Council among his other public-service credits, has seen an "interesting contrast" where Tuesday's bond referendum is concerned. Published: Nov. 5, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Leaders need to face facts

At a candidates' forum the other night, City Councilman Howard Clement reported that, during his 22 1/2 years in office, he has detected no cronyism or nepotism at City Hall. Published: Oct. 29, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Leaders need to face facts

At a candidates' forum the other night, City Councilman Howard Clement reported that, during his 22 1/2 years in office, he has detected no cronyism or nepotism at City Hall. Published: Oct. 29, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Can't deny 'bad' parts of town

Early this week, your correspondent had the honor of talking -- in the esteemed company of educator Eddie Davis and former mayor Nick Tennyson -- on WUNC-FM's "State of Things" program, the first show to originate from the Chapel Hill stati Published: Oct. 22, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Trinity Park has real character

This Sunday, Trinity Park is holding its every-other-year tour of homes, a worthy endeavor for a historic neighborhood. Historic, like so much else in Durham, with an ironic twist. Published: Oct. 15, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Bull City? More like 'Easy Street'

There's a point in the classic movie "Forbidden Planet" when the mad scientist, hearing that his alter-ego monster is loose after 20 years, stares off and intones, "And so it has started again." Published: Oct. 8, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

City needs good dose of honesty

This week, the city of Durham got a Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada. Published: Oct. 1, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Is the city's house in order?

When he signed on as Durham's permanent City Manager last January, Patrick Baker said he was making it a "personal priority" to do something about rundown housing. Published: Sep. 24, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

The Durham News

Chamber not first on block. Published: Sep. 17, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Honesty redeems report

Durham issued itself a sort of report card this week and, frankly, if Durham were a kid and these were the good old days this report card would almost rate a trip out back of the woodshed. Published: Sep. 10, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Signs of fall a reminder of the past

The college kids are back, football season has started, the weather has even turned a tad less hot and muggy and here and there a dogwood leaf has turned autumnal red. Still, this time of year, our Bull City is missing something. Published: Sep. 3, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Rougemont has right stuff to become a real town

Those irrepressible Rougemont folks are pretty serious about becoming a bona fide town. They're taking their petition, all 309 signatures' worth, for special delivery to the General Assembly on Monday. Published: Jan. 21, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Sit-ins set in long before Feb. 1, 1960

February, Black History Month, is nigh upon us. Next Tuesday brings a national PBS broadcast of "February 1," Triangle moviemaker Steve Channing's documentary about the renowned Greensboro Woolworth's sit-ins of 1960. Published: Jan. 28, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

A slip dooms his dream job

When he was 12 years old, Jack Stanley had the best job in the world. He wore a uniform. He mingled with stars. He made $1 a game and 25 cents for every pair of shoes he shined. Published: Feb. 4, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Lincoln's nursing tale to be put in bricks

Gloria King is a nurse by profession, but these days she's selling bricks. Published: Feb. 11, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

The real downtown renewal

Good things are happening in downtown Durham. Published: Feb. 25, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

Art has a way of repeating itself

That populist proposition to relocate Durham's hypothetical (read: "done deal") $35 million American Center for the Performing Arts to the north side of the Downtown Loop failed its test before the City Council this week. Nevertheless, the Published: Feb. 25, 2005 12:30 AM | Full story

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