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

Wise:: 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

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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

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

Wise:: 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

Wise:: 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

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

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

Wise:: 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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