ACORN
Tarboro Road in Southeast Raleigh is so close to the big “downtown renaissance” that, whizzing by on New Bern Avenue, you’d assume it was part of it. But it isn’t, says Mae Stephens (above left, with ACORN organizer John Comer), who lives a block away. Instead, it’s a hangout for prostitutes and drug dealers and […]

Well, stop the presses. Asked to vote in favor of higher taxes for no particular purpose … and in the face of a well-funded campaign against such taxes … and no campaign in favor of them … voters in 16 N.C. counties said no. (Well, it’s lovely this week in Carolina, so I’m sure most […]