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Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance Adopted

April 20, 2016 Kay Whatley

Wake County’s Vote to Ban the Box Will Make a Safer, More Prosperous Community New ordinance ensures qualified candidates for public employment aren’t automatically disqualified for criminal convictions Released by Daniel Bowes and Julia Hawes, […]

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The Strange-ness: Streets Change with Rain

June 8, 2016

A group in Boston has inscribed poetry on the streets of Boston MA; poetry that is only seen when it rains. Using stencils and water repellent, the poems are placed on a sidewalk or similar […]

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The Strange-ness: Unusual Bobcat Burial Discovered

January 17, 2016

Reported in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 2015, a bobcat appears to have been buried in a human-like, loving, and bejeweled fashion. The bobcat grave was discovered in Illinois, and dates back to somewhere around […]

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The Strange-ness: Tiger Finds Friend in Goat

December 3, 2015

While the Bible may say that the leopard will lie down with the goat, at an animal park in Russia it is a tiger that has adopted a goat as a bunk mate. Right around the date […]