With the Tucson shootings fresh in our hearts and minds, I am concerned with the comments going on out there.
Category: Opinion
Letter: Mobility is crucial
Over the past 10 years the IFC, the Town of Chapel Hill and numerous community organizations have been planning and searching for a new site for a transitional housing facility for homeless men.
Your ideas sought for Carrboro celebration!
This is the year that our little town of Carrboro turns 100.
Not having to lie
The repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell†was a moment in history this old queer never thought he’d live to see.
Finding efficiencies, but at what cost?
North Carolina faces one of the worst budget crises in memory, so it makes plenty of sense for Gov. Bev Perdue to seek out ways to cut costs and find efficiencies within the government.
Year of the immigrant
Last year was a difficult one for those who worked for a sane immigration system.
FROM THE EDITOR
People sure meet a lot around here.
In memoriam
A remembrance of some among those our community lost this year:
Letter: Dictating medical needs
I am a longtime resident of Chapel Hill as well as a patron of the town’s Easy Rider bus service since its inception.
FROM THE EDITOR
DREAM deferred
No limits on democracy
Republican legislative leaders didn’t seem to know what to make of the proposals Wednesday by Gov. Beverly Perdue.
Voters need to see through the special-interest fog
When Santa Claus makes his list of who has been naughty and who has been nice, he has some help.
Cuts alone won’t fix our budget crisis
North Carolina has a revenue problem. Falling revenues created by an outdated tax system and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression have created a much-publicized budget shortfall – and some shortsighted parties want to try to cut our way out of the problem.
Letter: Christmas dinner
Christmas day, 1998, my wife, Elaine, and I found ourselves not having planned dinner and realized we were caught without anything to prepare a meal.
FROM THE EDITOR
Holiday letters; Recruits needed