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The Durham Expunction and Restoration program provides free legal services for record expungement and driver's license restoration.
Funding for the program is led by a $500,000 grant from Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, while StepUp and the City of Durham worked with private donors to secure over $200,000 in additional capital.
As the most senior political appointee in the White House, Zients will play an important role in how Biden manages a new Republican majority in the House, an anticipated re-election campaign and a new special counsel investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, The Chronicle takes a look back to King’s five public appearances in Durham, one of which was on Duke’s campus.
The Chronicle has compiled a list of ways to volunteer at Duke and Durham this upcoming weekend to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.
ShotSpotter technology has been a recent subject of controversy both in Durham and in the several other cities in which the technology is being used.
However, there is one caveat: if one Democrat in the Assembly were to align with the Republican party, they could override the Governors’ veto power. Therefore, abortion laws remain on the line in North Carolina.
The council unanimously approved a resolution to rename a three-mile stretch of N.C. Highway 751 that passes near Cameron Indoor Stadium “Coach K Highway.”
The resolution was presented at the Dec. 8 work session and the City Council will vote on it at its Dec. 19 meeting.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Moore v. Harper to decide if the North Carolina Supreme Court has the authority to nullify the North Carolina General Assembly’s illegally gerrymandered congressional map for violating the state constitution.
Despite cooling down since their peak this summer, housing costs in Durham have witnessed upward momentum since the pandemic began in 2020. This has aligned with trends in other growing cities in the Triangle area and throughout North Carolina.
FTX executives’ moves appeared to be part of a nationwide lobbying effort to shape cryptocurrency regulation.
Duke obtains all of its drinking water from the City of Durham.
A panel of three judges from the N.C. Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiff’s appeal, writing that Evans did not “make written findings of fact supported by competent evidence supporting its conclusions of law,” according to the decision filed on Nov. 15.
Durham residents, including Duke students, can use an online mapping tool to submit ideas until Dec. 10 about where they would like to see part of the budget used and why. Proposed projects must benefit the public, be a one-time cost, and be capital projects.
Students across campus expressed varying views on the results of the election, with differing focuses and takeaways from the midterms.
The Respect for Marriage Act is currently de facto federal law because of the Supreme Court rulings of Obergefell v. Hodges and Loving v. Virginia. However, the future for same-sex marriage became uncertain after Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly called for the court to reconsider the Obergefell decision in June.
The investigation will determine if Ticketmaster complied with North Carolina antitrust laws and if it is using its power to harm North Carolina consumers.
Nuzzi elaborated on the media’s tendency to “fill up all of this space” with something “dramatic,” which can lead to hypotheticals solidifying as narratives. She advised journalists to find comfort in uncertainty.
These GOP wins, while falling short of the double-supermajority that the party had hoped for, will allow Republican leaders more freedom to advance policies that they have long supported.
