Ellie Kinnaird There has been discussion recently about whether a Costco located in Carrboro would have a detrimental effect on our community. I believe, to the contrary, that a Costco would answer a serious Carrboro (and Orange County) problem while upholding our core values. How can that be when all big-box stores are seen as…
Category: Opinion
Greenway should be for all to use
Debbie L. Nichols I find your Flora columns fascinating and informative, specifically the 2/4/10 issue connecting Avatar to nature. It is most imperative that all citizens be allowed to partake in nature observations. Unfortunately, in this same issue there was a disturbing letter (“Carrboro misguided,†2/4/10), symbolizing a trend. The writer objects to sidewalks or…
Letter: Public input needed
There has been a shift in Carrboro’s public-input process over the past several years from gathering information from the Carrboro citizens in some type of public-input process prior to developing full-blown plans to presenting fully developed plans to the public in a very brief public-hearing process.
Letter: Thanks for the change
In January, Real Change from Spare Change, an initiative of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership that supports community efforts to address homelessness, sponsored the Come Out of the Cold! Donation Drive. The response was tremendous! Neighborhoods, offices, churches, families, civic groups, UNC departments, and numerous individuals throughout Orange County answered the call and donated much…
Spotty at best
This has certainly been a hard week of work for those charged with keeping roads clear and travel safer during the recent spell of bad weather. Given the predictions of another jolt of winter for this coming weekend, it doesn’t look like there will be much rest. Along with the other key public-safety functions, keeping…
Kudos
Thanks to all the restaurants, clubs, musicians and merchants who have rallied to do what they can to help the people of Haiti. The events and the outpouring of donations have shown the true heart of our community. Last week, Mediterranean Deli pledged a full day’s receipts and was packed from open to close. Hearts…
Paying to lobby public officials for the public
Chris Fitzsimon It has been hard to miss the headlines in your local paper about your city slashing the budget or your county commissioners scrambling to find cuts to respond to last year’s revenue shortfall or to compensate for the cuts the state has imposed.
Join CHPD for community conversations
Chris Blue Assistant Chief Starting this weekend, the Chapel Hill Police Department plans to undertake a unique approach to hear about our community’s expectations of us. Beginning on Feb. 6, we will hold a series of community conversations to hear how we are doing as an organization. Each session will last no more than two…
Carrboro misguided
It gives one pause: An alderman elected by the vote of less than 10 percent of the Carrboro electorate gets a quarter-page in The Citizen (“Getting our bearings toward making things better,†1/28/10) to promote an agenda that has been discredited and whose perpetrators are in the process of losing their jobs and being prosecuted….
Support group starting
I am the mother of a daughter who has fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Since adopting her 15 years ago, I have done everything that a mother can do to help her child, but our lives remain an incredible daily struggle. In this light, I am starting a support group in the Triangle to bring together…
Déjà vu all over again
We’ve seen this movie before – just last year, in fact – the one where the towns of southern Orange and the board of county commissioners square off over library funding. Chapel Hill, whose library is open to all residents of Orange County, has long sought an increase in county support, which has fallen over…
Caution: icy weekend ahead
This weekend, there’s a strong likelihood that snow and ice will fall from the sky. This usually leads to a town-wide demonstration of poor driving skills and a run on bread and milk. Please take your time, don’t slam on the brakes and if you go into a skid remember to turn in the direction…
Getting our bearings toward making things better
Sammy Slade After the failure of the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, actions to resolve climate change in the U.S. are in reverse. Factors contributing to this lack of positive action include congress’ reluctance, before the mid-term elections, to engage in another battle, which is likely to be as drawn-out as the health care…
Democracy or auction?
Chris Fitzsimon Developer and prominent political fundraiser Lanny Wilson resigned from the State Board of Transportation Thursday, saying in a letter to Gov. Beverly Perdue that he wanted to “avoid any further unnecessary distractions†that would hurt Perdue’s efforts to reform the board.
Why not both?
I would think everyone who wants a solid and sustainable future for Carr-boro would support an expansion and diversification of the local economy. This discussion, in its latest incarnation, has state Sen. Ellie Kinnaird advocating for a Carrboro Costco and some local entrepreneurs and citizens decrying the desire for such a thing here.