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Laurence Lovette, the 17-year-old accused of murdering Eve Carson, appeared in Durham court today to be arraigned for the murder of Duke Student Abhijit Mahato.
According to the N&O, Durham District Court Judge Craig Brown “chided the media, saying they were focusing on the case because one of the victims was a young, white woman. Black crime victims, he said, don’t get nearly as much attention.”
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I got called back into the office last night when it appeared the work I had done on our company’s firewall had taken down our network in Germany. It turned out to be a power failure rather than something I did, but I did appreciate a peek at what the area around my office is like at night.
Wow, was I amazed. The streets were full of people! Some waiting to get into a club that by day is a sleepy storefront. Others enjoyed drinks at sidewalk tables in front of The Raleigh Times. Bicycle taxis drove people from one end of Fayetteville Street to the other.
In spite of all the activity, I still managed to snag a street parking space right in front of my building. Before I could even log into my computer, I got the call about the cause being a power failure, sending me home again.
I remember my first visit to Raleigh in the fall of 1987. A friend had started at N.C. State and he took me on a tour of the city. On a Friday night downtown were deserted! I had to smile last night when I considered the contrast.
My, how things change.
I’ve become intrigued by the knowledge that Raleigh used to have its own baseball team: the Raleigh Senators. I read somewhere (can’t remember now) the Senators once played at a park near Wade Avenue and Capital Boulevard, now home to the garbage trucks of Raleigh’s Solid Waste Services.
I am gathering more info on this missing ball park and hope to bring it back to life through the magic of the Internets.
Just got a call from the City of Raleigh. They had a cancellation for their Raleigh Neighborhood College program, so I squeaked in for the vacant seat.
I’m psyched about the program and looking forward to getting to know this city even better.
The first floor of my building houses the Raleigh Urban Design Center. Usually I walk by without paying much attention to it but something caught my eye today: an advertisement for the upcoming Raleigh Neighborhood College.
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No one can say that they didn’t see this coming, huh.
WRAL’s LocalTechWire reports that Durham-based Motricity is about to clean house, with possibly 1/3 of its Durham employees to get the ax. The ex-employees are fuming on other blog sites, though the ex-Mo friends I know could long ago see the writing on the wall.
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I figured I’d get the jump on the real estate crowd by putting some for sale signs out on Durant Road in Friday morning rain. I got home that evening and they were gone: probably stolen by the City of Raleigh’s Sign Nazis.
We got another pair from the agent who put our house on MLS. I promptly put them out Friday night. By 8:30 this morning they were also gone.
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On the way to the street to unload a coworker’s car a few moments ago, I got interviewed by WTVD reporter Tim Nelson about the drought and whether the city’s done an adequate job letting people know about Stage 2 restrictions taking effect tomorrow. He was asking if the city’s full-page ad about water restrictions was “buried” at the back of today’s the N&O’s business section. I basically told him you’d have to be under a rock if you didn’t know about the upcoming restrictions.
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Looks like we’ll soon have a new forwarding address: 1108 Tonsler Drive in downtown Raleigh. We made an offer on the house and it was accepted tonight. From the time we first looked at it to the time we had an offer ready was less than 24 hours. Truth be told, when first we turned onto the street I knew instantly that this was where we are going to live.
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