Follow-Up

Wake County residents will have an opportunity to comment on the federal National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, proposed for a site just five miles north of Falls Lake, Raleigh's primary source of drinking water.

An arbitrator appointed by the Federal Communications Commission ruled this week that Time Warner Cable must carry the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network on its standard cable package.

Almost two years after a Durham County judge sentenced Kenneth Maready to more than 50 years in prison in connection with a drunken driving death, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 last week that Maready deserves a new trial.

In October, Meredith College campus police clamped down on demonstrators at a speech by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, confiscating their anti-war, anti-Bush leaflets and exiling them to a distant "free speech zone."

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: Should they stay or should they go now?

Within the same week, the Stem and Creedmoor town councils each voted 4-1 to oppose the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, a federal laboratory that would study the world's deadliest animal and human diseases. Nearby Butner, which is 30 miles north of Raleigh and even closer to Durham, is one of five possible sites for NBAF, as it's known.

It wasn't only the candidates' positions on the issues that prompted the Progressive Democrats of N.C. to endorse Dan Besse over Hampton Dellinger for lieutenant governor in the '08 primary.

Under the order, regulators have the right to inspect the facility at any time, and ACGS may not accept new animals.

Organizer Kavanah Ramsier says her goal is to collect 1,000 signatures on a petition and put backyard flocks on the agenda of the Durham city planning commission.