Articles by Colin Donohue

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Mountain Xpress: Sunshine and livermush

June 16, 2011

From Mountain Xpress (6/14/11): While the all-important $19.7 billion state budget labored its way through the General Assembly en route to Gov. Bev Perdue's historic June 12 veto (the first time a North Carolina governor has ever rejected a budget), legislators also pushed a number of other bills along the Statehouse corridors toward the June 9 crossover deadline (after which most bills can't be considered for the rest of the two-year session). Some lost their earlier patina; others made light of the serious business at hand.

Elon in NYC: Lynne Bisko lays the groundwork

June 15, 2011

Students in Elon University's Elon in New York City domestic summer internship program take a four-credit-hour course called "The Streets of New York City" that requires them to study the Big Apple from the ground level so that they may develop a deeper and richer understanding of the city in which they'll live and intern until Aug. 6.