True Blue
Nice rant, Frank.
You are a true Heel.
Carl Rowe
New Bern
Whine and cheese
Never in all of my years have I seen such an arrogant and sour article on the pages of a newspaper. I am amazed that Frank Heath’s article “Pirates of the Past†would compare a singular Pirate fan from 25 years ago to the 40,000 passionate Pirates that packed the stadium on Saturday night. With high-brow attitudes like the one from Mr. Heath, is there any question why Pirate fans get jacked for the games with UNC? North Carolina has no better football tradition than their counterparts in Greenville. So let me lay out a couple of facts for Mr. Heath regarding his quote “….enjoying East Carolina’s first win over Carolina since that afternoon 32 years ago. It could be a while before they get another one.†First of all, the game should have never been as close as it was. Everyone harps on the Conner Barth missed field goal without regarding the fact that our kicker missed three kicks earlier in the game. Second of all, your high-dollar, big-name coach, Butch Davis, is now 0-3 against East Carolina. Get ready Mr. Heath, because there are many more losses coming to the Tar Heels at the hands of the Pirates in the future. I only hope that you have the guts to come to Greenville and see it for yourself instead of living in the past like the rest of the wine and cheese crowd.
Andrew Carrouth
Supporting Coleman
When Dan Coleman told me he wanted to join the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, I clapped my hands and yelled. You would have thought that UNC was in the Final Two again. After twenty years of hard work as a local and regional activist, Dan was committing to the even harder work of governance.
These days, too much conversation about sustainability centers on consumer choices and divides the can-spend from the can-not. Dan Coleman has never fallen prey to that mindset. He’s always focused on how communities can work together to create opportunities for sustainable choices, whether that’s bike paths so children can travel to school safely or creating affordable housing and promoting local entrepreneurs so more people can work in the same town as their homes and schools. He’s an endless font of innovative ideas, but those ideas never eclipse his belief that a municipality is comprised of people, not just buildings and sidewalks and ideals. In talking with Dan, where I see desired outcomes, he sees all the ways different people will be affected by that outcome.
Everything we enjoy in our community, not least our amazing public school system, was created by generations of forward-thinking progressive activists. Dan Coleman is part of that tradition. This fall I’ll be voting for Carrboro to continue as the home I know and love and for Dan Coleman to continue as alderman.
Maria Rowan
Carrboro