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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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Movie Review

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Most film scholars will tell you that there are two quintessential American genres: the Western and the gangster film. Because iconoclastic independent writer/director Jim Jarmusch has already deconstructed the Western in "Dead Man" (1995), it is only logical that for his next narrative film he would turn his sights on the gangster film. ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Section of Swift Drive To Remain Closed Until June 17 for Drainage Improvement Project

    . Swift Drive is currently closed between its intersections with Bryn Mawr through Merwin Road. Additional time is needed to complete the improvements being made to the Swift Drive culvert. Swift Drive will remain closed through Monday, June 17, 2013. Questions regarding the project should be directed to the Stormwater Utility Division, ...

  • Two Cary complexes sell for $56M

    Two expansive apartment communities in Cary have been sold for a second time in three years, this time with a combined price tag of almost $56 million. Tampa, Fla.-based Elco Landmark Residential has acquired the neighboring Hidden Oaks and Woodbridge apartment communities, located at the intersection of Northeast Maynard Road and Gregory Drive in Cary, that together have 788 apartment units ...

  • Duke UNC business schools crack Top 100 in bang for the buck report

    According to the Financial Times Global MBA 2013 rankings, the UNC-CH Kenan-Flagler School of Business and Duke Fuqua School of Business have an overall ranking of 45th and 18th, respectively, but both rank lower in terms of value. The value ranking was calculated by comparing salary earned by alumni today with course length, fees and other costs, including the opportunity cost of not working ...

  • Gov. McCrorys plea Keep the 12 special superior court judges

    Pat McCrory urged North Carolina senators to keep 12 special Superior Court judgeships that would be eliminated in the $20.6 billion budget they passed Sunday night. The 12 judges hear cases anywhere in the state, filling in as needed for any of the 97 Superior Court judges who may be out sick in any given week. The governor appoints the 12 special Superior Court judges to five-year terms, ...

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