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Category: Opinion

An argument for community rights over property rights

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

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.

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A mental health model that works

Posted on February 16, 2012February 15, 2012 by Taylor Sisk

To be diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness is, quite often, to be labeled an “other.”

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LETTER: Creative project needed for Greensboro/Weaver

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

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.

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LETTER: Bruce Thomas inspires joy

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

If I had to describe Bruce Thomas in one word, I would choose intensity.

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LETTER: No room for more traffic

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

Carrboro is the large ego of the Piedmont.

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LETTER: Thanks from Meals on Wheels

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

Chapel Hill/Carrboro Meals on Wheels would like to thank the MLK University/Community Planning Corporation.

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The anarchists’ dilemma

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

The anarchists are their own worst enemies.

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Regular governance

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

This is the final installment in a three-part series about Carrboro development.

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BIG CITY: Scenes from a poverty tour — Part 3

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

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.

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Before we trash the rural buffer …

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

The following is an op-ed submitted by the Justice United Environmental Team.

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LETTER: Kudos to the Music Loft

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

On Feb. 1, my house was broken into. The thieves stole a guitar that I had owned since I was 15.

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LETTER: Keep marching mandatory for band

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

A request to drop the mandatory marching requirement for band at Carrboro and Chapel Hill high schools is under consideration.

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BIG CITY: Scenes from a poverty tour – Part 2

Posted on February 2, 2012February 2, 2012 by Staff

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.

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LETTER: External alarms

Posted on February 2, 2012February 1, 2012 by Staff

“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.”

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LETTER: Independent investigation needed

Posted on February 2, 2012February 2, 2012 by Staff

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.

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