In this week’s cover story, Jonathan Michels chronicles the three-year history of Occupy Winston-Salem, a group that dispensed with the tactic of encampment and focused instead of steady, consistent solidarity work with other progressive actors across North Carolina.
NEWS
• Mellies makes bid to unseat Frye for Forsyth clerk of court
• Wide-ranging state investigation focuses on political consultant
• Long-time school board members face challengers
• HPJ: Industrial building stock points toward a refashioned future
OPINION
• Editorial: Trial by vote
• It Just Might Work: Secret bars
• Fresh Eyes: From the campaign trail to the ivory tower
• Editor’s Notebook: Voting with your dollars
COLUMNS
• Exile on Jones Street: Elections in the political hot zone
• Citizen Green: Dark money for the spoiler
• Good Sport: Wake celebrates what they can
• All She Wrote: Which North Carolina politician are you?
CULTURE
• Food: A different take on potlucks, for adults only
• Barstool: First/Burke Street bar crawl
• Music: Purple Rain in Winston-Salem
• Art: In a hidden store, a new life for art supplies
• Stage & Screen: Tween angst in the South a puzzler for Triad Stage
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