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.â€
Category: Opinion
Endorsement Letter: Vote for Price
Renee Price has the right blend of experience, expertise and compassion to be our county commissioner for District 2.
Cue the lux
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.
More web changes
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…
Endorsement Letter: Support Jacobs
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.
Endorsement Letter: Vote for Jacobs
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.
Changes proposed on new mental health care rules
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).
FROM THE EDITOR
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.
The point and politics of ethics reform
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 …
Carrboro ordinance street-lighting changes
As Carborro seeks to update the area lighting section of the ordinance, there are two major pollution issues to consider.
Too many hungry kids
I applaud The Citizen’s recent article by Alexandra Sirota on childhood hunger in our state.
N.C. kids face ongoing food hardship
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.
Time to shine a light on the plight of North Carolina’s Latino students
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.
Great Chapel Hill schools
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 …
Our hour to shine
The last time I spoke with Gov. Beverly Perdue was in February – until last Friday, March 25. The governor called …