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Category: Opinion

2009 In Memoriam

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Staff

By Taylor Sisk, Staff Writer Rebecca Clark, champion for justice, community leader and political organizer, died in January at 93. As Howard Lee, who Clark helped elect as the first black mayor of a major Southern town, said, “In many ways, you could say she wrote the book on grassroots politics.” Jeanne Peck, founding chair…

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The political year ahead

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Staff

It may seem like a very short breather, and it is. Relish the next week or so. Because despite the fact that we are at the end of what shaped up to be a pretty intense year of local politics, another year, likely to be even more intense, is fixing to dawn. The filing period…

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Letter from the editor

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Staff

Two thousand ten, thankfully, is just on the horizon. It’s a year that for me will mark a quarter-century since I traveled east across the mountains with nary a nickel to my name (it was $137 as I recall) to make a new life in this place I now with great fondness call home. If…

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Letter: Thanks for local coverage

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Staff

Thank you for your coverage of the local economy efforts under way in Carrboro (“Making Local Work for You,” 12/17/09). Margot Lester’s vision of “concentric circles emanating from the Paris of the Piedmont” brought to mind author Michael Shuman’s “purchasing ladder.” (Shuman has served as an economic development consultant to the town and his book,…

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Local light

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Staff

By Robert Dickson I’m not sure when I became addicted to light. Maybe it was during the three years in the ’60s I spent imprisoned in an all-boys school in Massachusetts. Or maybe it was that year in the ‘70s that Vicky and I spent in Chicago. The temperature on the sign near the Sweetheart…

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Slow Down

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Staff

This is that time of year when school suddenly ends, the university goes into sleep mode and most places of employment, save those in retail and food, start moving in slow motion, as vacations, errands and the occasional bout with the flu reduce the number of hands on deck.

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Make your voice heard on transit

Posted on December 17, 2009December 17, 2009 by Staff

BY JAMES CARNAHAN While world leaders in Copenhagen are striving for a global response to climate change and the emissions that trigger it, residents of Carrboro and Chapel Hill have an opportunity to manage our own future emissions. The draft Long Range Transit Plan (LRTP) is currently available for public comment, and we would be…

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Keep the reform train rolling

Posted on December 17, 2009December 17, 2009 by Staff

BY CHRIS FITZSIMON Government reform is in the air and in the headlines in Raleigh. Gov. Beverly Perdue’s new executive orders to toughen ethics rules for her appointees earned her headlines as a reformer, a label not entirely undeserved given her emphasis on a more open administration than her predecessor, Mike Easley.

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Letter: Playing politics with prisoners

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Staff

One of the largest departments in state government is the Department of Correction (which is a sad statement about our society). The name was chosen to reflect the goal of returning people convicted of crimes to society as responsible citizens by the use of appropriate programs. The philosophy was

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Letter: The desire to silence

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Staff

Why is it that people don’t want you to hear both sides of an issue? What types of people don’t want to compete in the marketplace of ideas? The Dec. 3 issue of The Citizen provides us with great examples, as do current events. First, Chris Fitzsimons tells us to ignore the voices of those…

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A promising outcome

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Staff

The county’s “punt” on solid waste – using Durham’s transfer station for three to five years while working on a new solution – is a significant and positive shift in the approach to what to do after the landfill closes. That the commissioners added an exemption from a potential future waste facility for the community…

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A unique moment

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Staff

The Town of Chapel Hill has had some rather hefty accolades thrown at it of late. Just this week, the Daily Beast named it the smartest college town in America. Last month, the Triangle was named by the same publication as the smartest place in America. Chapel Hill also has hit the top of the…

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UNC Should Show Way To Clean-Energy

Posted on December 10, 2009December 10, 2009 by Staff

By Giles Blunden UNC is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases in Orange County. According to Carbon Monitoring for Action, a group that tracks this information internationally, the coal-fired power plant on UNC campus produced 312,000 tons of CO2 last year. While it is great that the plant is a cogeneration plant producing both heat…

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Resolution on climate change

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Staff

[Editor’s note: Following is a resolution on climate change passed Tuesday night (December 8) by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen.] A resolution to take responsibility in a socially just manner for carrboro’s portion of co2 in the atmosphere; toward getting the atmosphere back to a safe level below 350 ppm of co2 WHEREAS, If humanity…

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How to develop a good teacher

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Staff

By Chris Fitzsimon State lawmakers heard a mixed evaluation of the university system’s performance in training teachers Tuesday from the director of a massive study of teacher development and performance. The report also gave generally positive reviews to the National Board Certification, much to the chagrin of the anti-everything right that has been trying to…

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