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Category: Opinion

A few facts to consider

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Staff

Now that the barrage of misleading political ads is popping up on your television screen and fliers with absurd claims from candidates are filling up your mailbox, here are a few facts to keep in mind when you hear all the hyperbole about issues like health care, taxes, the state budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the federal stimulus plan.

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Time to commute N.C.’s death sentences

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Staff

Across North Carolina, newspapers, defense lawyers, crime victims and even prosecutors are calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.

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Letter: Meeting space costs too much

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Staff

Sometimes you just have to say “NO”! That was my reaction to an agenda item before the county commissioners at their Sept. 21 meeting, which, if approved, would have permitted bidding on a proposed board of county commissioners’ meeting room.

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Letter: Use park site for new library

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Staff

I am writing about the front page article of The Carrboro Citizen dated Sept. 16, 2010, “Commissioners postpone library discussion.” There does not seem to be a site owned by the county that would be appropriate or a site that could be leased or purchased for a location of the proposed Southwest Orange County Library.

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Can we save Bolin Creek?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Staff

Many people believe it’s simple to create a concrete corridor through the woods along Bolin Creek. You just follow the sewer easement that’s already a narrow, somewhat worn path.

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The best plan for the job

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Staff

We need a new superintendent and we deserve great leadership. To get the best woman or man for the job, we need the best plan for the job.

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Sobering numbers with a clear message

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Staff

The latest poverty data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday was unfortunately not a surprise, showing significant increases in the number of people living in poverty across the country and in North Carolina in 2009.

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Clarification

Posted on September 22, 2010September 22, 2010 by Staff

A story in the Sept. 9 edition of The Citizen incorrectly stated how funds from a potential quarter-cent sales tax would be used after the initial five years of collection. The commissioners are still reviewing how those funds would be used after the first five years and have yet to take action.

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Letter: End this ruinous war

Posted on September 22, 2010September 22, 2010 by Staff

Tonight (Tuesday) at the Orange County commissioners meeting, I will be requesting that the commissioners pass a resolution urging our senators and congressional representatives to oppose any further Afghan War funding and look for ways to defund the war.

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Letter: Tolerance

Posted on September 22, 2010September 22, 2010 by Staff

“Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion” is from the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. That includes the right not to follow any religion.

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Saving Bolin Creek with a Paved Greenway

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Staff

I was initially against the Bolin Creek Greenway plan and now I’m an enthusiastic supporter.

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Letter from the Editor

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Staff

Tuesdays are pretty busy days for papers that come out on Wednesday. So, being a Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 was typically hectic.

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Letter

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Staff

Please. Enough of the patronizing tone of the powerful towards those of us who remember Chapel Hill/Carrboro before there was big-time Carolina basketball, I-40 and a seemingly endlessly expanding hospital.

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Redesigning Chapel Hill

Posted on September 9, 2010September 9, 2010 by Staff

Town halls across this land are full of well-intentioned, thoughtful reports, and the one on North Columbia Street is no different. We do this kind of thing well; but Chapel Hill, like so many of those other places, could stand to work on its follow-through.

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Maximizing returns on economic development investments

Posted on September 9, 2010September 9, 2010 by Staff

Conventional wisdom in economic-development circles clings to a recruitment model. Rather than build an economy from their own resources and talent, states and communities enter a zero-sum game competing to lure businesses with a variety of incentives.

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