On March 27 I attended a public meeting in which N.C. DENR discussed their provisional report concerning hydraulic fracturing or “fracking†in the state of North Carolina.
Category: Opinion
LETTER: Go Jags
Just wanted to thank you for a great season of press for the CHS basketball team.
LETTER: Happy birthday, Citizen
Just wanted to say congratulations on your fifth anniversary of publishing The Carrboro Citizen!
LETTER: Schools should keep both language programs
I sincerely hope that our school district stays representative of the values in our community, which celebrates diversity and multiculturalism.
LETTER: Support for local yarn
We the undersigned heartily support the proposed yarn-bombing ordnance (sic).
The welcome mat is pulled off the front porch
Two main factors accounted for the high rates of migration from Latin America from around 1994 to 2008.
Amendment threatens parental rights
On or before May 8, I will be voting against the proposed amendment to the North Carolina Constitution.
BIG CITY: New districts, familiar faces
For a while there a real primary contest was brewing for Democrats in North Carolina’s Fourth U.S. Congressional District.
LETTER: 140 West site a missed opportunity
I felt validated to read Joe Buonfiglio’s editorial (“Chapel Hill 2020 flawed,” The Carrboro Citizen, 3/4/12) on what a farce the Chapel Hill 2020 meetings are and how they are a vehicle for developers to do as they wish while making the workshops appear to have widespread public support.
LETTER: Treatment by police questionable
I am a UNC-Chapel Hill senior writing to let the town of Carrboro know about an incident with the Carrboro Police Department about two weeks ago.
LETTER: Carrboro Commune shifting focus away from issues
I support the Occupy Movement locally, because I have spent my life fighting against arbitrary authority, and for social and economic justice.
A RESOLUTION
CONSIDERING WRDU RUSH RADIO
BIG CITY: The lay of the land
On political maps, Orange County is blue, with about a third of it – the southeastern corner – deep, deep blue. That’s blue, as in leans heavily Democratic in registration and voting patterns.
LETTER: Dumpsite vote rushed
Decades of disrespect of a historic community were continued in the rushed vote by the Orange County Commissioners to avoid cleanup of debris in the Rogers Road community.
LETTER: Fracking study doesn’t support conclusion
There’s a significant disconnect between state officials who claim fracking can be conducted safely in North Carolina and the evidence, or lack thereof, contained in their own recently released 350-page study.