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Racial Profiling in Alamance Countynew

The Alamance County Sheriff's Office arrests double the number of Latinos in traffic stops as non-Latinos.
INDY Week  |  Billy Ball  |  08-14-2012  |  Crime & Justice

Making Moonshine and the Taxes You'll Owenew

Although homemade beer and wine are permissible in North Carolina, non-tax-paid spirituous liquor is another story.
INDY Week  |  Billy Ball  |  07-16-2012  |  Food+Drink

Undocumented immigrants circumspect about Obama directive on deportationsnew

"We want more than anyone to actually have this to be true and for us not to be played again, so we're not calling this a victory yet."
INDY Week  |  Billy Ball  |  06-27-2012  |  Immigration

After Amendment 1, local governments weigh health insurance optionsnew

In the Triangle, where more than 60 percent of voters filled in the oval "against" the amendment, a number of progressive local governments offer domestic partner benefits, a practice that presumably will be illegal under the state constitution on Jan. 1, 2013. So what's next?
INDY Week  |  Billy Ball  |  05-17-2012  |  LGBT

Where's Howard Clement?new

Sidelined by a publicly unidentified illness that limits his mobility, the Durham City Councilman has missed 20 meetings over 150 days, including key votes on the 751 South development, a public arts project and a resolution on fracking.
INDY Week  |  Billy Ball  |  04-25-2012  |  Politics

Lost Boy of Sudan Makes North Carolina Homenew

Mariak Chuor of Sudan finds a new life—and vocation as an author—in Garner, NC.
INDY Week  |  Billy Ball  |  04-01-2010  |  International

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