Whatever sympathies toward the protesters who occupied the abandoned Yates Motor Co. building or feelings about the heavy-handed response by the police one might have, the incident raises some serious issues.
Category: Opinion
A mental health model that works
To be diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness is, quite often, to be labeled an “other.â€
LETTER: Creative project needed for Greensboro/Weaver
As residents of Carrboro for 26 years on Oak Avenue, a downtown neighborhood that will be directly impacted by the proposed CVS development, we feel compelled to speak out.
LETTER: Bruce Thomas inspires joy
If I had to describe Bruce Thomas in one word, I would choose intensity.
LETTER: No room for more traffic
Carrboro is the large ego of the Piedmont.
LETTER: Thanks from Meals on Wheels
Chapel Hill/Carrboro Meals on Wheels would like to thank the MLK University/Community Planning Corporation.
The anarchists’ dilemma
The anarchists are their own worst enemies.
Regular governance
This is the final installment in a three-part series about Carrboro development.
BIG CITY: Scenes from a poverty tour — Part 3
This is the third in a series of columns on poverty, inspired by a recent North Carolina NAACP-sponsored tour of high-poverty regions of our state.
Before we trash the rural buffer …
The following is an op-ed submitted by the Justice United Environmental Team.
LETTER: Kudos to the Music Loft
On Feb. 1, my house was broken into. The thieves stole a guitar that I had owned since I was 15.
LETTER: Keep marching mandatory for band
A request to drop the mandatory marching requirement for band at Carrboro and Chapel Hill high schools is under consideration.
BIG CITY: Scenes from a poverty tour – Part 2
The is the second in a series of columns on poverty, inspired by a recent North Carolina NAACP-sponsored tour of high-poverty regions of our state.
LETTER: External alarms
“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.â€
LETTER: Independent investigation needed
The latest incarnation of the Chapel Hill town government’s fumbling quest to cover up the Yates incident is a joke, and may be the most politically revealing.