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  • High Quality Core Services Drive Proposed Budget

    City Manager J. Russell Allen today submitted a proposed budget to the City Council that continues to promote fiscal sustainability and cost competitiveness, while maintaining high quality core services. The proposed budget does not increase property taxes or solid waste, stormwater or privilege license fees. It does include an additional $13.9 million in revenue for the City's Public ...

  • Charlotte buzzes with Hornets return tonight

    Call it a Snapback revolution . As in the retro-cool of Charlotte Hornets gear stirring sentiment as much as anything in recent years. Burying the Bobcats brand a decade after it arrived reminds me of a conversation I had with the then-newly hired marketing and public-relations ...

  • Nostalgic Coca-Cola mural uncovered in Durham

    Durham has a not-exactly-new addition - a recently uncovered Coca-Cola mural on East Main Street. A team of workers, armed with fingernail files, have been delicately chipping away plaster for years, and their work is almost complete. The owner of the three-story building initially discovered the mural while stripping plaster off of the walls during the building's renovation. The image is ...

  • A Nonviolent Army of Love Rises in North Carolina to Face Down Rightwings Assault on Progress

    "We’re going to continue our acts of civil disobedience because the General Assembly has made a cruel attack on the most vulnerable people in this state," declared Rev. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the ...

  • Appeals court blocks workers comp settlement

    An appeals court agreed that the N.C. Industrial Commission can block a settlement that's not "fair and just." An employer and an injured worker cant agree to an unfair settlement once the North Carolina Industrial Commission gets involved, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision involves Exceptional Landscapes Inc., of Hillsborough, and employee Danny Allred, who was ...


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Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD]

Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD]

Especially in Western culture, the term childhood comes laden with heavy associations--particularly innocence, comfort, and a strong sense of safety. As the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay described it, Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Thus, it is telling that director An ... ...

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  • Elster metering division names new president

    Mark Fronmuller as its president, the company said Tuesday. Fronmuller joins Elster from SAIC Energy, where he was its senior vice president for global utilities. Raleigh-based Elster Solutions is the utility meter division of Elster Group SE, which is headquartered in Germany's Ruhr Valley. That company is in turn owned by the investment firm Melrose PLC (LSE: MRO). Elster Solutions has ...

  • Pre-spinoff Mallinckrodt trims workforce by 100

    Mallinckrodt, the St. Louis-based pharmaceutical firm with two production plants in north Raleigh, has started cleaning house for its anticipated spinoff from its parent company Covidien on June 28. Mallinckrodt has confirmed that it eliminated nearly 100 job positions last week, but it was unclear whether any employees from the company's two production plants in Raleigh were impacted. ...

  • City of Raleigh debuts maps app

    The City of Raleigh has released a mobile version of the iMAPS mapping application found on the city's website, allowing users to access building photographs, deed information and civil service data over cell phones and other devices. Currently mobile users account for 23 percent of visitors to the city's website, up 10 percent from the prior year. Some 53 percent of the time, city ...

  • UNC-fueled Epizyme sets $60M IPO terms prices shares at $13 to $15

    A Massachusetts company armed with UNC-developed technology has announced terms for an initial public offering. Epizyme Inc., which develops enzyme-based treatments for genetic cancers, plans to raise $60 million by offering 4.3 million shares at a price range of $13 to $15. In ...

  • Duke Energy NRC probe missed crack at nuke plant

    Ernie Kapopoulos, site vice president for the Shearon Harris nuclear plant, prepares for Monday's public meeting about the plant. Seated to his left are Plant Manager John Duffner and Regis Repko, senior vice president for the Harris and Brunswick nuclear ...

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