Judicial Candidates Used to Eschew Ideology. Not This Year. Not in Durham.
Kitsch aside, the ad summed up what has been the traditional judicial campaign message: experience, firmness, and an even hand. Not this year - at least in Durham.
Category Archives: Durham, NC
A monument falls in Durham
The crazed left has an uncontrollable urge not just to vent, but to destroy. The latest manifestation is the destruction in Durham, North Carolina of a monument to Confederate soldiers .
Portraits emerge of officers hailed as heroes at shooting
One of the U.S. Capitol Police officers injured while defending members of Congress during a shooting at a baseball field is a gregarious gym-goer and hard worker who adores his mother, his friends say. The other is a high-achieving former college athlete who a former boss says "exudes confidence and dedication."
WA: New Ferry Director Young and Passionate
Forty-year-old Amy Scarton became director Feb. 1, bumping interim boss Elizabeth Kosa back to her No. 2 staff chief position.
Poll says Virginians are okay with “bathroom bill”
MAY 10: Unisex signs hang outside bathrooms at Toast Paninoteca on May 10, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. Debate over transgender bathroom access spreads nationwide as the U.S. Department of Justice countersues North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory from enforcing the provisions of House Bill 2 that dictate what bathrooms transgender individuals can use.
Wherever Trump goes, nuclear ‘football’ to follow
Beginning on January 20, President-elect Donald Trump will be accompanied at all times by a military aide carrying the nuclear "football," enabling him to order a nuclear strike at a moment's notice. Just like his predecessors, whether he is at the White House, in a motorcade, aboard Air Force One or on a trip overseas, he will never be more than an arm's reach away from the aide and his satchel.
Looking past Trump, Clinton aims to help other Democrats
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Among young voters, Obama’s popularity may not transfer
In this photo taken Sept. 30, 2016, Duke University students Paulos Muruts, left, and Ben Ezroni, talk in Durham, N.C. They say they aren't pleased with their choices in the 2016 presidential election.
Hillary Clinton Sent “Mothers of the Movement” to…
They are members of a dreaded club they say no one wants to join. Their black children were all killed, either by a law enforcement officer, or someone with a gun.