Just in. I’m so proud of my town. On Thursday, March 8, in a 6-0 vote, the city of Durham’s councilmembers encouraged voters to cast their upcoming ballots against an amendment to the state constitution that would strip the local government of the ability to provide domestic partner benefits such as health care to its [...]

Today is election day — municipal elections in Durham, NC. It’s my hometown, and in 1989, after many years in New York City, I moved back to the Bull City. It’s a politically dark Blue spot on the map of NC, solid territory for Democrats. As with most cities in the South (though I suppose [...]