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Category: Opinion

Budget cuts now will hurt later

Posted on July 7, 2011July 9, 2011 by Staff

Kim Shaffer has lost her job. It’s not an unusual story lately – we probably all know someone who has recently become unemployed. Good employees are losing their jobs every day.

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BIG CITY: Facing facts on the immediate future

Posted on July 7, 2011July 7, 2011 by Staff

by Kirk Ross

One of the great voids in life after having been a beat reporter is that three-to-five-hour slot on Monday formerly reserved for observing the very interesting machinations of the Chapel Hill Town Council.

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Rethink lingering law

Posted on July 7, 2011July 7, 2011 by Staff

By Chris Brook
Why is infringing upon the right to assembly any more appropriate here, when community members’ livelihoods and humanity are at stake?

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BIG CITY: File under hmmm

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Staff

by Kirk Ross

For some folks, the summer doldrums are starting. Others are hitting the road or the beach.

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Letter: Court time

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Staff

The state budget cuts will have many unintended consequences, but I’d like to alert the community to one that may be under the radar.

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Letter: Thanks, Gov

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Staff

Thank you, Gov. Perdue, for standing on the right side of history by vetoing the voter ID bill.

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Out of the mainstream

Posted on June 30, 2011June 30, 2011 by Staff

Joe Hackney

Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools will eliminate 500 jobs soon and have declared it a victory.

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BIG CITY: Let’s go for a ride – Part 2

Posted on June 23, 2011June 23, 2011 by Staff


by Kirk Ross


We stood at the top of the levee and pondered the course of the river by the little town where my father grew up.

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Letter: Disdain for working families

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Staff

Politicians are fond of comparing a state spending plan to a family budget. But the Republican budget passed earlier this month shows a disdain for working families.

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Letter: Anti-loitering law unconstitutional

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Staff

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) has sent a letter to Carrboro Town Attorney Michael Brough …

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CORRECTION

Posted on June 23, 2011June 23, 2011 by Staff

An article in last week’s Citizen about a possible ban on the use of cell phones while driving in Chapel Hill incorrectly identified the source of allegations in a case involving an accident where a pedestrian was injured. A witness to the accident, Joe Capowski, alleges that the driver was using a cell phone when…

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North Carolina values under assault in budget plan

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Staff

Joe Hackney

The ongoing legislative session in North Carolina offers citizens a clear view of the different values of our legislative leaders and the direction they want to take our state.

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BIG CITY: Let’s go for a ride – Part 1

Posted on June 16, 2011June 16, 2011 by Staff

by Kirk Ross

You roll through some of the most amazing places, places where you can’t help think about geological time…

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Letter: Library fee abandons literacy values

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Staff

The Chapel Hill Town Council’s proposal to charge a fee (per person? per family?) for nonresidents who use our library fills me with sadness, dismay and disappointment.

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Letter: Legislative leaders leave people with disabilities behind

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Staff

Four times now in the last few weeks, self-advocates with developmental disabilities (DD) have gone to Raleigh to speak before legislative committees about the 1915 (b)(c) Medicaid waiver, which will directly affect our benefits. 

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