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The Ice’s Cat Gene
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:27:22 -0700
The Ice’s Cat Gene from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. This is one of our family’s favorite stories about The Ice. ...Confused?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:52:07 -0700
Me too.The governor of South Carolina says quitting would be the easy way out.The governor of Alaska says finishing her ...Why Palin quit (including a Freeper battle cry)
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0700
Everyone out there has a theory -- the latest is that Sarah Palin stepped aside as governor of Alaska because she's about ...Clock Tutorial #3c - Darwin On Time
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:31:03 -0700
This post is a modification from two papers written for two different classes in History of Science, back in 1995 ...Happy Fourth of July!
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700
Happy Fourth of July, everyone!Like most of you, I am taking the day off to celebrate with some patriotic festivities.If ...Ken Hutcherson: Obama has no 'black experience'
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700
Hutcherson photo art via Mike Tidmus. Oh man, the homo-hating pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Washington state, Ken Hutcherson, ...Is Social Media the New Punk Rock?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:45:31 -0700
This video comes to me via Jennifer McClure via Web Ink Now. I have a love of disruptive, loud, and ...Clock Quotes
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:14 -0700
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. ...Ladder 22 / Ladder 5
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:56:00 -0700
One of the city's two new Pierce platforms was placed in service as Ladder 22 on Thursday, July 2, at ...Fourth of July and Fireworks Safety in the Philippines
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:06:04 -0700
While the Philippines also celebrates Independence Day on July 4, Christmas and New Year's are their big fireworks season. ...Tweets from 2009-07-03
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:59:59 -0700
1 week in to new Palm Pre: local Sprint store rocks, national Sprint service is incompetent, phone reception blows (when ...A Pacemaker is a Network
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:04:05 -0700
This is going to be a challenging post to write for several reasons. How do I explain that a paper ...links for 2009-07-03
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:00:24 -0700
Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security Not to yell "fire" in a crowded social networking site, but this article ...Friday night senior pet pic blogging
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:38:29 -0700
Presenting the most handsome dog in the ...Merge video retrospective: Superchunk - "Driveway to Driveway"
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:51:00 -0700
It's not technically Friday anymore, but here's Friday's Merge Retrospective video. Here's another classic Superchunk video for "Driveway to Driveway" ...Lindau Nobel - interview with Bente Flier
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:03:11 -0700
A brief interview with one of the young researchers attending the Lindau Nobel conference - Bente Flier of the University ...Has downtown Durham changed since 1976?
This is incredible. Gary, the blogger behind Endangered Durham, dug up this editorial that was published in The Herald-Sun in July 1976. It’s amazing how many of the questions/points the editorial poses about urban renewal still ring true today:
Ginny Skalski
Will it become more than a business center that closes down at night and on the weekends? Will people come downtown for other purposes than to work or to pay a tax bill, register to vote, open a bank account? The answers to those questions depends [sic] on the attitude of Durham's voters, on the vigor of city officials in pressing for continuing downtown revitalization and on the willingness of private interests to invest in downtown Durham.
One Response to “Has downtown Durham changed since 1976?”
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techempage
October 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Interesting, I’ve seen downtown Durham change a lot over the years. My grandmother lived since the 40’s on East Main St until the mid 90s. I now work at ATC, during my day job. I’ve never really had any problem in downtown. Although, just driving through parts with other people, I’ve seen friends go, “You drive though here? Are you nuts?!?”
I don’t know if there is really a way to calm folks fears about the area. I know I’ve gone to hang out in ATC after work or gone home and come back to Tyler’s or Mellow Mushroom.
What interests me is, from your article it seems they’ve been working on this for 30+ years now, does that make it a lost cause at this point?