Skip to content
The Archive of The Carrboro Citizen
Menu
  • Home
  • News
  • Community
  • Schools
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Obituaries
  • Sports
  • Mill
  • Flora
  • Print Archive
  • About
Menu

Category: Opinion

Endorsement Letter: Vote for Broun

Posted on April 22, 2010April 22, 2010 by Staff

Joal Hall Broun, candidate for Orange County commissioner at large, starts her statement to the public, “When I make promises I keep them. I am a public servant, not a politician.”

Read more

Endorsement Letter: Vote for Price

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Staff

Renee Price has the right blend of experience, expertise and compassion to be our county commissioner for District 2.

Read more

Cue the lux

Posted on April 15, 2010April 15, 2010 by Staff

We head into Earth Week – or whatever you care to call it – with what we know to be right confronting what we know to be.

Read more

More web changes

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Staff

As recently noted, we continue to build up our website. Debuting this week is a new blog by Steve Peha, a Carrboro resident and education consultant who writes The Citizen’s Education Matters column. Steve’s Ed View blog – carrborocitizen.com/education – features his columns along with essays and links covering education news and research. Also, this…

Read more

Endorsement Letter: Support Jacobs

Posted on April 15, 2010April 15, 2010 by Staff

It is an honor, privilege and a true pleasure working alongside Barry Jacobs on the Triangle J Council of Governments. Barry is hard-working and a creative thinker, at once a team player and a strong leader.

Read more

Endorsement Letter: Vote for Jacobs

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Staff

Orange County is lucky to have had Barry Jacobs as county commissioner for the last 12 years. He knows what the citizens want and need, and strives to achieve these goals.

Read more

Changes proposed on new mental health care rules

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Taylor Sisk

Lanier Cansler, secretary of the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), has proposed four changes to the forthcoming implementation of a new designation of mental health care provider in North Carolina, called critical access behavioral agencies (CABHA).

Read more

FROM THE EDITOR

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Staff

The now old joke goes like this: There are 10 kinds of people in this world — those who understand binary and those who don’t.

Read more

The point and politics of ethics reform

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Staff

The latest package of ethics reforms announced by Gov. Beverly Perdue Monday won’t clean up all the problems in Raleigh. And it certainly won’t end the skepticism about public officials that was …

Read more

Carrboro ordinance street-lighting changes

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Staff

As Carborro seeks to update the area lighting section of the ordinance, there are two major pollution issues to consider.

Read more

Too many hungry kids

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Staff

I applaud The Citizen’s recent article by Alexandra Sirota on childhood hunger in our state.

Read more

N.C. kids face ongoing food hardship

Posted on April 1, 2010April 1, 2010 by Staff

The epidemic of childhood obesity has recently found a prominent place in our national conversation, bolstered no doubt by the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign and the “Food Revolution” promoted by crusading British chef Jamie Oliver.

Read more

Time to shine a light on the plight of North Carolina’s Latino students

Posted on April 1, 2010April 1, 2010 by Staff

Will new attention to educational civil rights result in the bright light of justice helping Latino immigrants come out of the shadows? Efforts to resolve North Carolina’s civil rights challenges must include a perspective on what’s happening to Latino students.

Read more

Great Chapel Hill schools

Posted on April 1, 2010April 1, 2010 by Staff

As the weather warms, my wife and I like to dine on our screened-in front porch, and if the sun is still out when we finish, we often take a postprandial promenade around the neighborhood. The arrival of spring means that house-selling season has also arrived …

Read more

Our hour to shine

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Staff

The last time I spoke with Gov. Beverly Perdue was in February – until last Friday, March 25. The governor called …

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • …
  • 100
  • Next

Web Archive

© 2025 The Archive of The Carrboro Citizen | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme