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Category: Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Flagrant omission

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Staff

While we were in your charming town this weekend to visit Camellia Forest Nursery, I picked up a copy of The Carrboro Citizen, drawn by the promise of a “Spring Gardening Special Section Inside.” Since we own a nursery in Southside Virginia,  we are always interested in the gardening sections printed in newspapers in surrounding…

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Letter to the Editor: Tax has positives

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Staff

Mark Zimmerman’s guest column railing against the upcoming vote on a proposed land transfer tax [“The wrong tax and the wrong time,” March 13, 2008] paints this revenue-generating tool as regressive, unreliable, unfair and just plain awful. But to the average Carrborean, it just might be a pretty good thing. First, if you don’t own…

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Letter to the Editor: Article was off-base

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Staff

If the sentiment expressed in Peha and Lester’s article “Paper, pencil and chalk” (3/6/08) is the same perspective held by our school systems’ administrators, our children are being done a great disservice. The authors admit “technology has revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives,” yet they conclude “we may all serve children better with paper,…

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Letter to the Editor: Dinner Thanks

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Staff

I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the Eleventh Annual Community Dinner celebrating Orange County’s cultural diversity, held on Sunday, March 2. The fact that between five and six hundred people attended the event bears testimony to the multicultural goodwill present in our very diverse community.

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Thoughts on CHHS cheating scandal

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Staff

By Holly Hardin Spending time trying to hunt down graduates who may have had access to Chapel Hill High School keys and discussing how to curb cheating only addresses this problem at the surface. We need to ask ourselves, what about our educational system is causing our students to cheat? Should the students be held…

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The wrong tax and the wrong time

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Staff

By Mark Zimmerman Orange County has always prided itself on being a progressive community that strives for fairness. When the Orange County Commissioners chose to add a referendum to the May 6 primary election ballot imposing a new sales tax on property, known as the transfer tax, it abandoned those principles. The transfer tax is…

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For the Record: 03/13/08

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Staff

Editor’s note: Following is the statement by Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy regarding the death of Student Body President Eve Carson delivered on behalf of the Town Council at the start of Monday’s council meeting. We begin this evening’s meeting by acknowledging the grief and pain that we are suffering at the loss of our…

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Taking responsibility for integrity

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Staff

By Neil Pedersen  “Cheat or repeat.”  That’s the response from one of my high school students when I, as an English teacher, was sharing my zero tolerance standard for cheating on the first day of school. For some reason, I still vividly remember this utterance 35 years later. Perhaps, it was because at my undergraduate…

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Unconventional wisdom

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Staff

By Chris Fitzsimon In 1992, a prominent Democratic state senator was talking to a small group of people waiting for a political rally to start when the subject turned to an effort by progressives to repeal the state sales tax on food that had been imposed in the early 1960s by Gov. Terry Sanford to…

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Letter to the Editor: Horror and apathy

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Staff

George Bush for torture. Yes, alas. And we stand by, in horror and in apathy. I speak for myself in this. I earlier organized a web revolt (Yes, I am revolted!) at the fact that we Americans condone torture – see tort.wikispaces.com. And I had planned on becoming a lot more active in promoting the…

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Letter to the Editor: Welcome to Carrboro

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Staff

Congratulations to the owners of the Andrews-Riggsbee site, soon to be Roberson Square, on approval of their project. I can’t wait to see their cool-looking mixed-use building in place of the vacant lot that is there now! I’m disappointed they didn’t include a restaurant, any child-related structures, and that their garbage entrance will face their…

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For the Record: 03/06/08

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Staff

On to Stage Three [Editor’s note: While recent rains have helped, we are entering the warm weather months with extremely low water supplies. We cannot will a change in the weather, but we can improve conservation. To that end, Stage Three restrictions were approved at the beginning of this month. Following are the new restrictions.]…

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Paper, pencil and chalk

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Staff

Steve Peha & Margot Carmichael Lester If we knew we could improve education by buying every learner a laptop, many communities might be so inclined. But it doesn’t appear that this would make a significant difference in student outcomes. We take it for granted that kids with computers at school are better off than those…

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For the Record: 02/28/08

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Staff

Live by the test scores . . . There is palpable concern in the air about the reputation of Chapel Hill High School. It might be a good time in the midst of all the concern about tests and cheating to look for a moment at how we’ve judged that school, and all schools for…

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An open letter to Hidden Voices

Posted on February 27, 2008February 27, 2008 by Staff

[Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to Hidden Voices and the participants of The ArtsCenter’s production “Because We’re Still Here (and Moving).”] Francesca Hyatt I was deeply moved by the performance this past Friday, and grateful that so many were willing to share their stories. Some of the stories were almost unbearably sad…

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