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Category: Opinion

Letter: Foraging options

Posted on December 16, 2010December 16, 2010 by Staff

It’s sad that Mr. Ken Moore takes unwarranted and cheap shots at “protective landowners and deer hunters” for his self-perceived inability to easily and safely collect a few holly branches from the local woods like in days of old.

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Letter: A very long time

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Staff

One hundred and ten months is a very long time! That’s how long it has been since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in order, we were told, to arrest our archenemy (or one of them) Osama bin Laden.

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Letter: PORCH welcomes your porch

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Staff

Thank you to The Carrboro Citizen for putting the spotlight on poverty in Orange County in its Dec. 9 editorial.

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Letter: Thanks

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Staff

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Varsity Theater, Harrington Bank and the community at large for coming out to our first annual Community Night at the Varsity on Friday, Dec. 3.

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The ‘Harvest of Shame’ continues

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Staff

While the modern landscape of North Carolina agriculture may not, at first glimpse, look very “modern,” many of our local growers are, in fact, now operating in a new global agribusiness paradigm.

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We have to do a lot better

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Staff

As I said earlier, and will say again, I think the most effective way to create jobs, and the most important way, is to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

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FROM THE EDITOR

Posted on December 9, 2010December 9, 2010 by Staff

Poverty in Orange County

The stream of statistics from the recent census continues to flow, and among the numbers coming out in the days ahead are even more solid estimates of people in poverty.

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Look and think before slashing services to people with disabilities

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Staff

Disability is a natural part of the human experience. It does not discriminate. It crosses all income brackets, striking every age group at any time.

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Remembering John Lennon

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Staff

The news came over the radio 30 years ago this week: John Lennon had been murdered outside his Manhattan apartment building.

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Where the Easley mess should lead us

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Staff

Gov. Mike Easley’s court appearance on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving was too late; the penalty, a $1,000 fine, was too little; and the ultimate victim was the confidence of the citizenry of North Carolina.

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FROM THE EDITOR

Posted on December 2, 2010December 3, 2010 by Staff

Chalk it up to Rep. Verla Insko for a rather prescient comment during her remarks at the opening ceremony of Carrboro High School in 2007.

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What small businesses need

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Staff

Small business clearly needs help, given that half of all start-ups don’t last five years. But the help we really need isn’t in tax relief; it’s with the cost of health insurance.

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The superintendent we need

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Staff

On Nov. 29 and Dec. 15, our school board will seek input from members of the community about what we should be looking for in a new superintendent.

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FROM THE EDITOR

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Staff

Thanks a bunch

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When the Frost is on the Punkin

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Staff

Editor’s note: The staff of this newspaper wishes you and yours a very happy and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday. The editor, recalling the many holidays past when this poem was read aloud and the soothing effect it had on even the most annoying relatives, suggests you gather the young ones around a senior member of your tribe with good eyesight and a resonate voice and let it rip.

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