Three students go on a hunger strike outside a U.S. senator’s office. Two young children wave a tearful goodbye to their father, not knowing when they will ever see him again.
Category: Opinion
Time for another Suffrage Parade
This month marks the 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States and it’s looking more and more like time for another Suffrage Parade.
In appreciation
Thank you for publishing the story of Ko Htoo in last Thursday’s Carrboro Citizen (8/26). The Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library wanted to honor the memory of former board member Mary Frances Eldridge with a scholarship in her name. Ko’s story of his journey from Thai refugee camps to Carrboro in 2004 was one of courage, inspiration and faith, values that Ms. Eldridge would have championed.
Listomania
This is a reminder that not all best-of lists are created equal and few of them do much more than offer a cursory look at the communities they tout. Yes, Chapel Hill made it relatively high up – No. 40 – on another best-place-to-live list, this one by CNNMoney.com, which offered this inciteful (pun intended)…
PTSD and the Veterans Administration: Just who’s malingering?
In 1944, when an uninjured private, Charles H. Kuhl, said he “couldn’t take it any more,†Gen. George S. Patton called him a “yellow coward,†slapped him and threw him out of the hospital tent.
The push to portray N.C. as the worst
You don’t have to spend much time reading the conservative blogs and the reports from the right-wing think tanks to figure out what they want us to believe.
Cheating our way to the top
It is the spring of my senior year. I am staring out the second-story window of Chapel Hill High School at the crystal clear Carolina blue sky and blooming trees, wishing I did not have to take the quiz that my teacher had just placed in front of me.
Thanks for the support
I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart all the people who made The Goathouse Refuge Burrito Bash on August 3 at the General Store Café in Pittsboro a huge success. You are all wonderful!
The expense of back-to-school shopping
I, being kind of a nerd, like the smell of new paper and the knowledge that there are new pencils and pens in my bag, and shopping for school supplies is always kind of fun for me. Until I start to feel guilty about how much money my mom is shelling out for my stuff.
Time for the safety dance
We know from studies and experience that the first couple of months of the new school year are when the highest number of accidents occurs. Many new drivers and pedestrians venture out unsure of the rules of the road, and encounters with both on our streets are all too common.
Welcome aboard
It’s never ceased to amaze me that so many talented people have stepped up to make this a true community newspaper, and a quality one at that.
How we used to roll
The old saw about the transient nature of this community goes something like, “After five years, you’re a local and after 10 a native.â€
A once-in-our-children’s-lifetime opportunity in education
In mid-sized, middle-class school districts like ours all around the country, the transfer of power goes beyond the civil and the orderly to the positively uneventful. Most of the time, no one even notices as Dr. Stay the Course replaces Dr. Status Quo.
No evidence of death penalty discrimination
Chris Fitzsimon writes that, “Race plays a role in determining who receives the death penalty in North Carolina, specifically the race of the victim of a crime.†The claim is that murderers of whites are more likely to get the death penalty than murderers of blacks. What he neglects to state is that 94 percent of the murderers of blacks are blacks themselves, while 72 percent of the murderers of whites are white.
Letter: Co-op concerns
As an active worker-owner with Weaver Street Market cooperative, there is no one who wants to hear good news about The Weave more than me. Provided it is genuine good news. And in that regard, the 2010 Report of the WSM board of directors gives rise to certain concerns.