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North Carolina Legislative Watch Fighting for the rights of LGBTQ North Carolinians has never been more crucial than at this time. Recently, three municipalities have adopted non-discrimination ordinances after the sundowning occurred on HB2/HB142 that restricted such actions. HB2/HB142 became an international embarrassment to the state’s reputation. (Photo Credit: dusica69 via Adobe Stock) During the week of Jan. 10, three towns in Orange County passed LGBTQ-inclusive non-discriminati...

Two recent pothole-damage cases are raising questions about who is responsible and who should pay when vehicular damage occurs as a result of the pavement pockmarks, long the ire of Kamloops residents. After Gregor’s pothole mishap — which occurred on Jan. 2 and caused damage to not only her car’s tire, but also the rim and required her vehicle to have a wheel alignment — Gregor made her first call to the city. She said the city referred her to ICBC, which informed her it was her faul...

North Carolina Towns Push For LGBTQ Protections As Moratorium Ends Lawmakers agreed to stop pushing for nondiscrimination ordinances in 2017 as a compromise in ending the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.” Gary D. Robertson RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The first North Carolina municipalities are acting to expand LGBT rights again a month since the expiration of a moratorium on nondiscrimination ordinances agreed to years ago as a compromise to do away with the state’s “bathroom bill.”...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The first North Carolina municipalities are acting to expand LGBT...

The Hillsborough Board of Commissioners In the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Hillsboroughs mayor and commissioners came together to condemn President Donald Trump and his Congressional enablers in a statement Monday morning. They also called for Trumps resignation. "We demand the president be held accountable and immediately resign," they wrote. "If not, we demand that Congress impeach and remove the president and prohibit him from ever holding public office again." The impeachm...

Björk’s last long-player, Medúlla, split opinion in a fashion quite unlike any of its preceding album releases. The Icelandic avant-pop queen had taken a drastic sidestep, and not everyone in her audience was willing to follow her lead into the unknown. The aforementioned last-long-player-proper, released in August 2004, was an experiment of sorts, an intentional distancing of its maker from her past work. Made entirely from vocal samples, some straight from the throat and others distorted...

A GREENOCK man charged with throttling a woman and brandishing a baseball bat is set for a sheriff court jury trial in the new year. Mark Bell, 26, is said to have held the female against a wall, seized her throat and restricted her breathing. Prosecutors say the alleged attack took place within a flat on Bawhirley Road on June 23. Bell — also charged with cocaine possession — is further accused of assaulting the woman again the following day by spitting on her at Carwood Street. ...

Pandemic spurs library to show and sell artists’ clay creations   BROOKLIN — It was very much by chance that Odette Heideman fell into the craft of making pottery. For years, the Naskeag Point Road resident explained, her husband had given her gift certificates for facials and massages that went unused. Heideman floated an idea of something she might like to do, so he gave her a gift certificate for six lessons with a potter in Sag Harbor, N.Y., where they used to live. Heideman, who...

Said look everyone is walking back and forth camille im from the west you know and i dont even have an idea on me he had a kind of i didnt have any connection to west germany he does have some i was thinking id prefer to stay here in my warm cozy nest arms but hans martin was relaxed it was no big deal he had nothing to be afraid of. concert and he sort of pulled me along with him or not mr mix could see. by then frank had returned to the empty apartment he and his family were due to leave east ...