Ward redrawing could take many shapes
Before the Durham City Council cuts its size from 13 members to seven, it needs to decide how to redraw its ward lines, and whether or not it can complete that process in time for the November 2001 elections.
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Before the Durham City Council cuts its size from 13 members to seven, it needs to decide how to redraw its ward lines, and whether or not it can complete that process in time for the November 2001 elections.
The Durham City Council heard citizens' comments on the city budget at a three-hour meeting Tuesday night.
In a meeting last night, the Durham City Council unanimously adopted an ambitious working list of the qualities it wants in Durham's new city manager.
One of the driving forces behind Durham's downtown revitalization plan is leaving our city government.
The Durham City Council unanimously appointed the more senior of Durham's two assistant city managers to the post of interim city manager at a meeting last night.
Pam Adams
When Durham County voters travel to the polls next week, they will cast their vote not only for a presidential candidate, but also for five positions that lie a bit closer to home: the Durham County commissioners.
Sir Roger Penrose, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, spoke on the relationship between science and the mind to a standing-room-only crowd of over 150 in the Math/Physics Building yesterday.
As North Carolina voters decide which candidates to back on Election Day, they must also figure out the answer to another question on the ballot: whether or not to issue $3.1 billion in bonds to fund higher education in the state.
Members of the Board of Trustees met with both graduate and undergraduate students over lunch Friday to discuss the University's need for more social space.
After almost 10 years away from Duke basketball, Christian Laettner and Brian Davis are back in Durham attracting scores of people once again-but this time, they're promoting the apartments they converted from old downtown tobacco warehouses.
A group of six ethicists, researchers and other experts gathered May 1 in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy to discuss the ethical implications of the rapidly advancing science of genomics.
Men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski may have written a book called Leading with the Heart, but he seemed to be leading with the pen Thursday, as he autographed copies of the book and spoke briefly to an audience of about 250 in Card Gym.
Political psychologist Ashis Nandy spoke last night about the career of Kapil Bhattacharjee-whom he called India's first modern environmentalist-and explored the limits on Bhattacharjee's criticisms of the Damodar Valley Corporation's building of mega-dams.
Without money, it's hard to do much in this world. Duke Mock Trial is learning this lesson the hard way-the team is sitting out this weekend's national tournament because it can't afford the $3,200 to get there.
In 1971, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district was the site of the precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court decision, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, requiring local schools to achieve racial diversity, even if it meant busing students. Today, the same district lies on the opposite end of the dispute over race-based school assignments.
Journalists from countries including Nigeria, Kosovo and Japan arrived at the University March 19 to study democracy and the media as part of the University's Media Fellows Program.
Oil prices are rising nationwide, and Durham is no exception-local gas stations are now charging more than $1.50 per gallon of regular unleaded gasoline. But even as prices promise to continue rocketing, most University students, faculty and staff are reluctantly accepting the higher prices and continuing business as usual.
Plagued by injuries and facing off against the ACC's top team, the Duke wrestling team was the clear underdog in last night's home finale against N.C. State.
Carliss Chatman wants to see more collaboration between leaders of student groups at the University, and she feels that being Duke Student Government president is the best way to make that happen.