| Blog and Media Roundup - Saturday, February 27, 2010; News Roundup | |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 06:47 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/6482862/article-Council-open-to-raising-taxes?instance=homefirstleft Council open to raising taxes 02.26.10 - 11:02 pm Members say hike would come with more spending cuts By Ray Gronberg gronberg@heraldsun.com; 419-6648 DURHAM -- Citing rising debt-service and health-insurance costs as key factors, City Council members have left the door open for their government to propose an increase in property taxes for fiscal 2010-11. There was also talk during a Friday budget retreat of perhaps putting another bond issue before voters to seek money to deal with the city's 210-mile backlog of street-paving needs. Council members coupled their willingness to consider a tax increase with a demand for additional spending cuts, which they conceded would likely translate into staffing reductions. They urged City Manager Tom Bonfield to continue serving up proposals to consolidate, change or reduce lesser-priority services, latitude he's used over the past year to lay off 14 workers, revamp Durham's recycling program and eliminate an in-house nursing unit that served city workers. The only place members indicated they weren't willing to consider cuts was to the sworn ranks of Durham's police and fire departments. But even those departments were advised to consider making do with fewer civilian employees. Beyond that, "there are some departments that can really be eliminated or merged with others and do the same tasks in a much more effective and efficient manner," Councilman Eugene Brown said. Council members additionally signaled that they might be willing to dip into the city's savings to address "deferred maintenance" of city facilities. Bonfield and his staff favor using cash instead of borrowing to address routine maintenance, and believe there's need to address $1.5 million of such work in fiscal 2010-11. The upcoming year's likely tax revenues might not spread that far, but the city does have some extra money in bank, over and above a policy-dictated 12 percent of appropriations. Officials said earlier this month they see no way to balance the upcoming budget without combining tax increases and spending cuts. Estimates of the likely gap between revenues and expenses have varied, but as of Friday it looked like administrators and the council need to make up about $13 million. Covering that solely with a tax increase would boost the tax rate by about 5.8 cents per $100 of assessed value, an increase of nearly 11 percent over the current rate. The largest component of the gap is an expected $8 million increase in annual debt payments tied to Durham's 2005 and 2007 bond issues. Voters in those years authorized some $130 million in borrowing, a figure officials at the time warned would likely contribute to tax increases. The city's budget staff is also expecting health-insurance costs for the city staff to rise by about $2.8 million, roughly 12 percent over the current bill. The council held the line last year on pay for workers other than sworn police and firefighters. Doing so again this year while asking employees to absorb higher insurance bills could be a morale-killer, they said. "We must show our employees we value their service in some way," Councilwoman Cora Cole-McFadden said. The talk of another paving bond came mainly from Mayor Bill Bell, following another presentation on the backlog from Public Works Director Katie Kalb. The city needs to spend more cash each year on paving to keep to a regular maintenance schedule, but the backlog is large enough that it will take $19 million to catch up, Kalb said. Even with that, it would take about three years to finish the work, unless the council tacks on another $2.5 million to for consultants to oversee the paving process, Kalb said, explaining that her department doesn't have enough staff to supervise a large one-year paving program. Bell said he thinks officials could convince a voting public unhappy with street conditions to support another bond, provided they can promise a quick return on the investment. But administrators cautioned that the city's debt burden is bumping up against guidelines that say annual repayments should total no more than 15 percent of total appropriations. |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 06:49 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story_news_durham/6482382/article-Several-candidates-come-in-just-under-the-filing-deadline?instance=main_article Several candidates come in just under the filing deadline 02.26.10 - 10:21 pm BY MATTHEW E. MILLIKEN mmilliken@heraldsun.com; 419-6684 DURHAM -- Candidate filing in Durham County ended Friday with neither bang nor whimper. Instead, Mike Ashe leaped out of his chair. "Whoa," the county's energetic elections director cried. "I missed it, filing has closed." He left his office, where he had been helping Democratic sheriff's candidate Troy Butler attend to campaign finance paperwork, and raced toward his agency's front door. After checking the time with two employees -- one said it was noon, the other 12:01 p.m. -- Ashe repeated his declaration as part of his staff and a pair of reporters looked on: "Filing has closed, it's done." Two people had been just about to enter the building: Lavonia Allison, the chairwoman of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, and a college student who had come with her to fill out a voter registration form. Ashe explained that the candidate filing deadline had just passed. "We are done, nobody can file any more," an enthusiastic Ashe said, practically dancing with excitement. "That's fine, stop showing off," Allison told him genially. Six new candidates filed at the Durham offices Friday in the hours before the window for would-be elected officials to declare themselves closed at noon. Ashe said the first and last days were the busiest of the three-week filing period. In addition to Butler, a Democratic candidate for Durham County sheriff, the other local final-day filers were Laney Funderburk, Republican candidate for the N.C. Senate District 20 seat; Randy Stewart, Republican candidate for N.C. House District 30; Patricia Ladd, Republican candidate for N.C. House District 31; Larry Yarborough, Republican candidate for N.C. House District 55; and Regina Stanley-King, candidate for the nonpartisan School Board District 2A seat. |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 06:49 AM Post #3 |
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http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story_news_durham/6482234/article-Filing-ends---and-the-winners-are-?instance=main_article Filing ends -- and the winners are? 02.26.10 - 10:07 pm BY MATTHEW E. MILLIKEN mmilliken@heraldsun.com; 419-6684 DURHAM -- At the close of 2010 candidate filing Friday, just three local candidates in partisan races had no opponent in either the primary or general elections, according to state and local candidate lists posted Friday afternoon. Archie Smith, the second-term clerk of Superior Court, Tracey Cline, the first-term district attorney, and Larry Hall, the third-term state representative for District 29, appear to have free passes to new terms. All are Democrats. The most competitive race could be for U.S. Senate, where incumbent Republican Richard Burr is facing three intraparty rivals. There are six Democratic candidates for the seat. There is also one Libertarian, Michael Beitler, the only member of his party vying to represent Durham voters. In the 4th Congressional District, incumbent Democrat David Price has no primary competition. There are four Republican candidates competing in the primary. Three local legislative races each feature one Democrat and one Republican, and thus require no primary voting. The offices at stake, all held by Democrats now, are N.C. Senate 18, N.C. Senate 20 and N.C. House 31. Paul Luebke, the Democratic incumbent in N.C. House 30, has no intraparty challenger but will face whichever Republican voters select in a primary. Jason Chambers and Randy Stewart are competing for the ballot slot. In N.C. House 55, Larry Yarborough is the lone Republican. Incumbent Democrat Winkie Wilkins is vying with Fred Foster Jr. and R. Miles Standish to advance to the general election. Either Troy Butler or current Sheriff Worth Hill, both Democrats, will emerge from the primary to face Republican Roy Taylor. Every school board race features at least two candidates. Unlike other campaigns, those four races will be settled in either May or, should a runoff be required, June. In nonpartisan judicial races, there are two candidates for the N.C. Supreme Court Justice seat, meaning both automatically advance to the general election. Two N.C. Court of Appeals seats have three or more candidates and will require primaries. The third Court of Appeals seat has just two candidates and the fourth one has a single candidate. There are six contestants in the Superior Court Judge District 14B race, for which there are three open seats. No primary will be required. Two of the six District Court Judge District 14 races -- which are contested seat by seat, unlike Superior Court but like other judicial offices -- have at least three candidates and require primaries. Both are for judgeships that are being vacated. Incumbent Judges Nancy Gordon, James Hill, Marcia Morey and Brian Wilks are running unopposed. The primary election is May 4, with early voting to start April 15. |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 06:58 AM Post #4 |
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http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/6482906/article-Week-s-end?instance=editorial Week's end 02.26.10 - 11:07 pm Crystal Mangum’s false claim that she was raped by three members of the Duke University lacrosse team wounded this community. In the aftermath, we were left to sort through bitter volleys about race and privilege, the humiliation of those who were duped into supporting her, and the damage that she did to three young men and to real rape victims who have to contend with Mangum’s legacy. Mangum was never named in a civil suit and never faced criminal charges related to the case. Not quite four years later, Mangum is accused of dumping her boyfriend’s clothes in an apartment bathtub and setting them on fire. The charges against her include attempted first-degree murder, five counts of first-degree arson, and three counts of misdemeanor child abuse. At her initial hearing, her bond was set at $1 million. It is tempting to indulge in a little schadenfreude, and it is tempting to think that a stratospheric bond is the price of notoriety, a little insurance that, however the current charges play out, Mangum will at least serve a few days behind bars. But our justice system is supposed to be blind — bad actors get the bond appropriate to their crimes and circumstances, not bonds that serve as de facto sentences. District Court Judge Claude Allen did the right thing when he reduced her bond to $250,000. |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 07:03 AM Post #5 |
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http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-york-daily-news-stands-up-for.html Friday, February 26, 2010 THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STANDS UP FOR THE FALSELY ACCUSED The single greatest editorial we've seen in a long, long time: This case was a crime: DAs must learn tough lessons from false rape conviction Five years after crying rape and sending a man to prison for a crime that never happened, Biurney Peguero has been slapped with a one- to three-year sentence for committing perjury. She deserves that much - and more. Peguero should have been required to spend at least as much time behind bars as did William McCaffrey, the innocent man she locked away. That Peguero eventually admitted fabricating her account of a brutal assault by McCaffrey and two other men does not mitigate her offense. Nor was hers garden-variety perjury of the kind that witnesses perpetrate to, say, dodge an indictment. Peguero's sworn words stole the freedom of a blameless individual as surely as if she had kidnapped and held him hostage for 50 months. Her eligibility to apply for parole in a year pales in comparison. She also played the criminal justice system - the police, the Manhattan district attorney's office, a judge and two juries - for fools. They bought a story that in the clear light of hindsight had grounds for doubt. And, so, the Peguero case must serve as an object lesson for law enforcement authorities and judges as to the makings of a wrongful conviction. It should also reinforce for them the need for speedy reconsideration when there is substantial evidence that an injustice has been done. Peguero's tale was horrifying. She said she met McCaffrey after a long night of drinking in upper Manhattan and wound up with him and his friends in a van. In graphic detail, she described being raped at knifepoint by McCaffrey and two others. She offered as evidence a bite mark. So convincing was Peguero that Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers slammed McCaffrey with a 20-year sentence - more than the recommended maximum - saying, "she gave up caring what you and your accomplices were doing in sexually assaulting her; hoping only that you would not take her life." But a medical exam had turned up no evidence that Peguero had been raped at all, let alone by McCaffrey, let alone by three men. But she had also told a friend there had been only one rapist. But the men returned Peguero to her friends rather than dumping her on the street. But police couldn't bring cases against the other two supposed attackers. But a witness said Peguero had gotten into an unrelated fight with her friends, the melee in which she suffered the bite mark. The DA's office says it investigated to the fullest extent possible. Still, this was that most dangerous of prosecutorial entities: the single-witness case. And it went horribly wrong. Later, in 2007, after advances in DNA technology, McCaffrey's lawyers asked for access to DNA left with the bite mark. The material should have been provided forthwith, in keeping with then-DA Robert Morgenthau's stated policy. But a year passed before a DNA test proved that McCaffrey had not bitten Peguero, as had been presented at his trial. Then, after Peguero recanted her story in March 2009, it took yet another nine months before he was freed. When that day finally came, Carruthers apologized profusely and called the conviction a catastrophe for both McCaffrey and the criminal justice system.. The judge was right on both counts. Now, the goal must be never to stumble into another such disaster. New DA Cy Vance made a campaign issue of preventing wrongful convictions. He is moving to create a special unit for that purpose. The horrible saga of McCaffrey's imprisonment must be part of the curriculum. Link:http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/02/26/2010-02-26_this_case_was_a_crime.html#ixzz0geBXg5OA |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 07:11 AM Post #6 |
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/02/27/360767/durham-candidate-filings.html Published Sat, Feb 27, 2010 04:44 AM Modified Sat, Feb 27, 2010 12:41 AM Durham candidate filings Here is a list of candidates who have filed to run in Durham County races. Candidates from the same party will face off in a primary in May. The general election will be held in November. Durham Public Schools (nonpartisan) District 1: Omega Curtis Parker (incumbent), Donald A. Hughes, John Tarantino District 2: Frederick A. Davis (incumbent), Regina Stanley-King District 3: Nancy Cox, Christine Baker District 4: Stephen A. Martin (incumbent), Wayne Allsbrook, Natalie Beyer, Shea Neville Sheriff (partisan) Worth Hill (incumbent), D; Tony Butler, D; Roy G. Taylor, R District Attorney (partisan) Tracey Cline (incumbent), D Clerk of Court (partisan) Archie Smith (incumbent), D Superior Court Judge (nonpartisan - three seats open) James E. Hardin (incumbent), Elaine Bushfan, James H. Hughes, Michael O'Foghludha, Dan Read, Chris Shella District Court Judge (nonpartisan) Current Bushfan seat: Brian Aus, Catherine Constantinou, Pat Evans Current Gordon seat: Nancy Gordon (incumbent) Current Hill seat: James T. Hill (incumbent) Current McKown seat: Freda Black, Steven Storch, Kerry Sutton, Doretta Walker Current Morey seat: Marcia Morey (incumbent) Current Wilks seat: Brian Wilks (incumbent) |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 07:11 AM Post #7 |
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/02/27/360862/durham-toils-on-budget.html Published Sat, Feb 27, 2010 04:44 AM Modified Sat, Feb 27, 2010 04:58 AM Durham toils on budget DURHAM Discussions about Durham's 2010-11 budget were so excruciating Friday that Councilman Eugene Brown offered to share his pain medication. "None of us is having any fun up here," said Brown, who is recovering from knee surgery. With the city facing a $15 million shortfall in next year's revenue, a hike in the current property tax rate of 54 cents per $100 valuation is all but certain. But how much of a hike remains to be determined. "I want a sense of what you're looking for," council member Diane Catotti said to City Manager Tom Bonfield. "I want a sense of what you're comfortable with," Bonfield replied. It's going to cost the city more to service debt next year, with bonds to be issued that voters approved in 2005. Most city employees had no increases in pay or benefits last year. And federal stimulus money that covered some expenses in 2009-10 won't be there in 2010-11. There was general agreement to some "adjustment" in employee compensation, and to keep the city's debt-service cost below the 15 percent of annual general-fund appropriation level that, Bonfield said, is generally considered the limit of fiscal prudence. Durham is currently at 15 percent and would exceed that level without a tax increase. Nevertheless, Mayor Bill Bell suggested a November referendum on more bonds should be on the table for discussion. And there was little consensus, if any, on where to apply additional taxes or which fees might be increased. Nor was there discussion on where to cut spending. Still, Bonfield said the sessions had provided him with some "pretty solid guidelines" for drafting a set of principles to follow in making up a budget for next year. "I think we maybe got, not 20/20 clarity, but, I think, 20/40," he said. jim.wise@newsobserver.com or 919-932-2004 |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 07:25 AM Post #8 |
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http://www.pennathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=8738&SPID=544&ATCLID=204895116&DB_OEM_ID=1700 Men's Lacrosse Opens at No. 8 Duke Saturday Release: 02/26/2010 Senior Justin Lynch is one of the top face-off men in the country. PHILADELPHIA - The Penn men's lacrosse team enters a new era Saturday, as Mike Murphy coaches his first game as the Quakers' head coach. And what a way to start -- with his own alma mater. Penn heads south to take on Duke University, facing off with the eighth-ranked Blue Devils Saturday at 3 p.m. It figures to be a tall task for a team that graduated a number of key players from a team that went 5-8 overall last season, but Murphy is philosophical about the challenge. "It is exciting to get going," he said. "We have been working hard since September, and I am excited to see where that has gotten us when we stop onto the field Saturday. I want us to win, obviously, but as much as anything I want us to play well." While Duke is playing its third game already this season, Saturday marks Penn's season opener. The Quakers did scrimmage Virginia and Georgetown two weeks ago, and Murphy was encouraged by what he saw from his squad. "I think we learned a lot from those scrimmages," he said. "Mostly, we learned that if we play hard, we can be competitive with anybody. Those games were by design -- we set it up to play Virginia and Georgetown, knowing that we had Duke as our opener." The Series Talk about unfamiliar opponents: Penn and Duke have met just three times in history, and not since 1985. These teams split the first two contests. Penn won the first matchup, 9-8 in overtime, on March 18, 1971. The rematch came March 5, 1985 with Duke pulling out a 7-6 decision. Fast Start While Penn, like all the Ivy League schools, is a bit behind the rest of the country in terms of games played, the Quakers will work quickly to catch up by playing all seven of their non-conference games in a 17-day period. Penn is at Lafayette Wednesday night, plays twice next weekend in Denver, then hosts city foes Saint Joseph's and Villanova the following Wednesday and Saturday before going to another ACC school, Maryland, on Monday, March 15. About Duke Duke entered the 2010 season ranked second in the preseason USILA coaches' poll, but have dropped off after an 11-10 overtime win over Bucknell on Feb. 13 and an 11-7 loss to Notre Dame last weekend. Under fourth-year head coach John Danowski, the Blue Devils are led by Max Quinzani, Zach Howell and Ned Crotty; all of them have eight points so far. Justin Turri and Will McKee have scored twice. In goal, Dan Wigrizer has played every minute and holds a 10.98 goals-against average with 32 saves. Penn Notes * Penn returns 17 letterwinners and loses 10 from the 2009 team that finished 5-8 overall including a 2-4 Ivy League mark. * The captains for this year's team are face-off man Justin Lynch, and defenders Joe Kelly and Brett Hughes. * Penn -- which is looking for its third NCAA postseason bid in seven years after not having one from 1989 to 2003 -- has finished .500 or better in the Ivy League four of the last six years, including a 4-2 record in 2006. * Among the returnees are eight starters -- junior Corey Winkoff on attack; sophomore John Conneely on the first midfield; seniors Hughes and Tommy Dodge and sophomore Will Koshansky on defense; sophomore Joe Hegener in goal; and two on the face-off unit (seniors Lynch and Kelly). For many of the seniors, 2010 will mark their third and even fourth year as a starter. * Penn hopes to be bolstered by the return of senior Hughes on defense; a two-year starter in 2007 and 2008, he missed all of last year due to injury. * Winkoff -- the only returnee among Penn's top five scorers from 2009 -- has been Penn's assist leader each of the last two years, collecting 43 in that time. He needs 18 to crack the program's all-time Top 10. * A pair of junior midfielders, Morgan Griff and Al Kohart, tied senior Casey O'Rourke for sixth on the team in scoring last year; all three players finished with 11 points. Kohart was a second-team All-Ivy pick as a freshman in 2008. * Conneely was tops among freshmen last year with six points (3g, 3a), while classmate Dan Savage had a pair of goals. Senior Rob McMullen had five goals. * On defense, expect Hughes -- who had 10 caused turnovers and 27 ground balls in 2008 -- Kelly and Koshansky to anchor things. Kelly had a team-high 16 caused turnovers last year, while Koshansky was second with 12. * There are several veterans at the defensive middie positions, including Dodge and junior Terry Kennedy. * Lynch had a .542 win percentage last year on face-offs, and swept up a team-leading 82 ground balls. Kelly ended the year with 53 GBs. This year, they figure to anchor one of the top face-off units in the country. * In goal, Hegener started eight games last year and had a .441 save percentage and 10.68 GAA; the Quakers also boast senior Chris Casey, who started 21 of Penn's 26 games between the pipes in 2007 and 2008. Quoting Coach Murphy "Duke is my alma mater, but I haven't thought about this game in that way at all. Probably the only time it really came up was when I saw that we were going to practice on their turf Friday, and I remembered practicing on that turf as a player. But the connection does not resonate with me as much as the fact that they are a high-caliber program who is working with kids along the lines of what we have here at Penn." "You watch Duke play, and you see a bunch of talented kids who play hard and play fast." "I think we have strengths in a lot of different areas, some of them physical and some of them mental. I expect us to be pretty good on defense, I think Justin Lynch is a great face-off man, and I see a lot of athleticism in the midfield. I have also been impressed with our cohesion and work ethic." |
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| abb | Feb 27 2010, 07:26 AM Post #9 |
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http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=204896065 Men's Lacrosse Hosts Penn on Saturday 02/26/2010 - Duke Sports Information Courtesy: Duke Photography Game 3 Duke (1-1, 0-0 ACC) vs. Pennsylvania (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League) Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 l 3:00 p.m. Koskinen Stadium l Durham, N.C. Duke Faces Pennsylvania Duke will take on Pennsylvania at Koskinen Stadium ... The game will be the first game of the 2010 season for the Quakers and the third for the Blue Devils ... The game features the return of former Duke men's lacrosse player Mike Murphy who is in his first season as the head coach at Penn. Duke-Pennsylvania Series History Duke and Pennsylvania are meeting for the fourth time overall and for the first time since 1985 ... The Quakers own a 2-1 lead in the series with the Blue Devils winning the most recent contest in 1985 ... Penn's two victories came in the 1970 and 1971 seasons in Durham. Scouting Duke Duke enters the third game of the 2010 season with a 1-1 overall record ... The Blue Devils defeated then 19th-ranked Bucknell 12-11 in overtime on Feb. 13 before falling to then No. 9 Notre Dame 11-7 in the home opener at Koskinen Stadium ... Duke's trio of seniors Max Quinzani and Ned Crotty and junior Zach Howell pace the offense with eight points apiece ... Quinzani leads the team with seven goals, while Crotty has seven assists ... Senior defenseman Parker McKee anchors the defense with eight caused turnovers and 15 ground balls ... In goal, rookie Dan Wigrizer sports a 10.98 goals against average and a .593 save percentage ... Wigrizer leads the ACC with 16 saves per game. Scouting Pennsylvania Under the direction of first-year head coach Mike Murphy, Pennsylvania will play its 2010 season opener versus Duke ... The Quakers posted a 5-8 record in 2009 and a 2-4 mark in Ivy League action ... Penn returns 17 letterwinners and seven starters to the squad ... Headlining the offense will be junior attackman Corey Winkoff after finishing 2009 with 25 points for second most on the team ... Senior Justin Lynch will handle faceoff duties ... The native of Garden City, N.Y., posted a .542 win percentage a year ago ... Defensively, Penn allowed 10.90 goals per game in 2009 ... Joe Hegener returns as the backstop after post a 10.68 goals against average and a .441 save percentage last season. Duke in the Month of February Duke has been incredibly successful in the month of February ... Since playing the first February game in 1983, Duke is 32-3 all-time in the second month of the year ... The Blue Devils lost to Maryland in 1998 and to Harvard last season prior to the loss to the Fighting Irish this season. Duke Against the Ivy League Duke is 42-33 all-time against Ivy League opponents ... The Blue Devils own a winning record against Dartmouth, Harvard and Brown ... Duke has faced all seven Ivy League programs that sponsor the sport of men's lacrosse. |
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| Quasimodo | Feb 27 2010, 08:22 AM Post #10 |
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If the Durham media were a watchdog media (or performed like the media of Detroit), the people would have been better informed; and we wouldn't see this kind of perpetuation of the status quo. |
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| Quasimodo | Feb 27 2010, 08:25 AM Post #11 |
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At least this much is now being admitted in public; but...
Show me where the HS sounded so noble when the Duke Three had their bonds set at $400.000... |
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| Kerri P. | Feb 27 2010, 09:00 PM Post #12 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/7131036/ Authorities investigate officer-involved shooting in Durham Posted: Today at 4:04 p.m. Updated: Today at 7:31 p.m. Durham, N.C. — Authorities on Saturday were investigating an officer-involved shooting on Rosaline Lane, near Juliette Drive in southern Durham. [Watch Video] Officers responded to the sound of gunshots at 1:41 p.m. along the 100 block of Rosaline Lane in the Belcrest subdivision. Upon arrival, officers confronted an unidentified man with a handgun, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said. An officer fired and the man was hit by a bullet, Michael said. Paramedics transported the man, whose name is not being released at this time, to Duke University Hospital for treatment. The extent of his injuries was not known. The incident is being investigated by the police department's Professional Standards Unit and the State Bureau of Investigation, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings. No further information was released. Edited by Kerri P., Feb 27 2010, 09:00 PM.
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| nyesq83 | Feb 28 2010, 01:36 AM Post #13 |
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The $1,000,000 bail was set because she threatened the lives of her three kids and 2 cops with arson, and threatened to stab someone after assaulting him. The accused has a record of reckless and life-threatening behavior. The initial bail is not as outrageous as some would claim. The original judge was not a local dem party hack, was she? |
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