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Category: Opinion

We’re 5, thanks to you

Posted on March 15, 2012March 14, 2012 by Staff

Sometime near the end of our first year of publishing The Citizen, I was all by myself in our small office off Weaver Street, pondering then, as I still do, the wisdom of providing a weekly newspaper in our media-rich, highly connected community, when my reverie was thankfully interrupted by a visitor, an uncommon occurrence back in those days.

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BIG CITY: Don’t just say ‘no,’ say ‘hell no’

Posted on March 15, 2012March 14, 2012 by Staff

Deep into the night of Election Day 2010 I was right about where you’d expect any crusty newspaper editor to be — sitting mid-bar downtown watching ice melt in a short glass and talking politics with no one in particular.

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Celebrate human rights and support the HRC

Posted on March 15, 2012March 14, 2012 by Staff

Admittedly, human rights – like virtue, impeccably good citizenship, brilliance and extraordinary creativity – are aspirations; sometimes not realized, sometimes a little roughed up, sometimes a lot.

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Amendment One threatens N.C. families

Posted on March 15, 2012March 14, 2012 by Staff

“We couldn’t live under the constant threat,” was how she started her story.

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BIG CITY: Redrawn districts complicate the primary

Posted on March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 by Staff

By Kirk Ross
If you’re not registered to vote and you should be, go get registered and then come back and read this column.

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BIG CITY: Time to retune our affordable-housing strategy

Posted on March 1, 2012March 1, 2012 by Staff

By Kirk Ross
You measure the success of any public policy not on what happens on paper, but on what actually happens.

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Let’s be honest with one another

Posted on March 1, 2012March 8, 2012 by Staff

By Judith Blau
The meals you enjoy at restaurants are no doubt made by Latinos. Your home was largely constructed by Latino workers. Most landscaping around town was done by Latino workers.

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LETTER: Our pathway to tragedy

Posted on March 1, 2012February 29, 2012 by Staff

The United States is a country often shaped by Supreme Court cases that have been at once remarkable pieces of jurisprudence only to fall in the mud at the next session.

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LETTER: Chapel Hill 2020 beyond flawed

Posted on March 1, 2012February 29, 2012 by Staff

After attending a recent “Future Focus” workshop as part of the continuing Chapel Hill 2020 process, I find myself in the company of so many who are both disheartened and outraged by a progression of events completely and blatantly slanted toward accommodating certain developers and their big-box projects.

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BIG CITY: Someone, please, make it stop

Posted on February 23, 2012February 22, 2012 by Staff

Let me disabuse you of a notion floating around that somehow something called The Media wants to see a long drawn-out slugfest in the Republican presidential primary.

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JFK and the proposed marriage amendment

Posted on February 23, 2012February 22, 2012 by Staff

In the pulpit recently, Catholics were urged by a letter from the bishops of Raleigh and Charlotte “to protect traditional marriage” by voting in favor of the proposed amendment to the North Carolina Constitution on May 8, 2012.

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A statement of principles for athletics at UNC

Posted on February 23, 2012February 22, 2012 by Staff

The following statement was developed by an informal group of faculty members at UNC regarding the future of athletics at UNC, and has been endorsed by 112 faculty members.

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LETTER: RENCI offers valuable learning

Posted on February 23, 2012February 22, 2012 by Staff

Girl Scout Troop 3064 would like to send a special note of thanks to Jason Coposky and everyone else at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in Chapel Hill.

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LETTER: Context needed on Greensboro/Weaver claims

Posted on February 23, 2012February 22, 2012 by Staff

Lies obviously pollute discourse; fortunately this tends to make their damage self-limiting.

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BIG CITY: Poverty in the land of plenty

Posted on February 16, 2012February 15, 2012 by Staff

It’s not hard to understand why times are tough in places like Rocky Mount, Elizabeth City and the small towns and crossroads in between that have struggled for years.

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