As this community faces drastic budgetary constraints, we must work together to find ways to offset the impact this has had and will have on our educational system.
Category: Opinion
The General Assembly should act now on jobs
Last week when the legislature was in Raleigh, the Republican leadership wasted $150,000 of our taxpayer money to take up a referendum amending the state constitution when we should have enacted a jobs plan.
BIG CITY: Pure poison in the state capital
The leadership of the North Carolina General Assembly, self-proclaimed as the most open and transparent in history, called another last-minute press conference a week ago Monday and finally announced what exactly they were going to do during the special session.
Proposed project wrong for space
On Tuesday, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen will resume a rezoning hearing on a property on North Greensboro Street.
LETTER: Responding to residents on DOMA
This past week, I received more than 650 cards and as many emails from constituents in Orange County opposing SB514, “The Defense of Marriage Act†better known as the marriage amendment.
LETTER: Vote Foushee for Aldermen
In 1960, Braxton Foushee and a group of other African-American students from Lincoln High School started the Chapel Hill sit-in movement just weeks after hearing of the Greensboro sit-ins.
LETTER: Disabled residents need transit
I am a medically disabled woman, living within the legal boundaries of Chapel Hill.
LETTER: Thanks to Home Trust supporters
On Friday, Sept. 9, 150 people gathered to honor former Chapel Hill mayor Kevin Foy and to raise funds and awareness for Community Home Trust.
LETTER: Shangri-La highlight timely
Special thanks to Jock Lauterer for last week’s focus on “the little village named ‘Shangri-La.’â€
Correction
The hours of Carrboro’s anti-lingering ordinance were described incorrectly in an article in last week’s Citizen.
BIG CITY: The aftermath, Part 2
Kirk Ross
The phone rang one night just a little later than usual.
Ecology, community and desire
During a recent discussion of environmental politics in Carrboro, a friend directed me to a video of a conversation between Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh and environmental activist and Right Livelihood Award-winner David Suzuki.
LETTER: Development raises concerns
As a citizen of Carrboro, I’m concerned about the plans to build grocery and retail stores on what is now the Roy Lloyd farm – the swath of land directly across Carrboro Plaza on N.C. 54.
LETTER: Bad advice
I just read the Sept. 8 House Calls column suggesting to the parent of a 3-year old that toilet training should be “all positive,” and that “eventually” this child will naturally become toilet trained.
BIG CITY: Aftermath, part one
Kirk Ross
When I hear people wax poetic about how proud they were of this country on Sept. 12, I can’t help thinking that some of them mean a country with no dissent, a country that doesn’t question its leaders or try to understand the world around us, a country many of us steeped in the ideals of America wouldn’t recognize.