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Rebuilding Raleigh – Continued

By Rusty | Published: May 26, 2011

What words of comfort can you give to a person who has lost everything? A person whose home is so desolated that there is more tarp than house. The best I could muster was, “Don’t worry. We’ll take good care of you.” I’m usually pretty good with words, in writing anyway. But after the second […]

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Rebuilding Raleigh after the Tornadoes

By Rusty | Published: April 25, 2011

Over the Easter weekend I took a walk through a Raleigh neighborhood hit very hard by the April 16th Tornadoes. I’ve been through a handful of hurricanes here in Raleigh, and seen what I thought was some pretty bad storm damage in the past. The level of devastation from the storms last week, however, was […]

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“Governor Purdue, Tear Down This Monument?”

By Rusty | Published: February 25, 2009

Inspired by an “interesting” article in the N & O, I recently put together another piece for NewRaleigh… Something beyond Architecture for a change, a debate is rising about public art, past, present and future. Check it out, here. Hope you have as much fun reading it, as I did writing it.

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