Orange County this week turns its attention from one referendum to another, very different, one.
Published: May. 12, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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In one fell swoop, it threatens the many existing protections and benefits that are held by unmarried domestic partners – of the same or opposite sex – and their children.
Published: May. 5, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
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We were proud and honored to host President Obama here last week. At Carmichael Arena, speaking without apparent use of the teleprompter, he gave a strong speech and endeared himself to the enthusiastic crowd by opening, of course, with a few casual references to Carolina basketball (“If Kendall hadn’t gotten hurt, who knows...”).
Published: Apr. 28, 2012 12:00 AM | Full story
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This year, there’s a primary election on May 8, and we urge you to consider this one every bit as important as the one coming up in the fall. Please vote.
Published: Apr. 21, 2012 5:00 PM | Full story
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Some families in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School district have been neglecting to pay for their children’s school lunches.
Published: Apr. 14, 2012 5:15 PM | Full story
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The debates show a lack of consensus, and perhaps majority support, for the direction the Town Council has taken the town in recent years. Chapel Hill 2020 is an admirable attempt to reassess, but as the June deadline closes in, the process has begun to fray.
Published: Apr. 8, 2012 2:28 PM | Full story
Not long ago the Chapel Hill Police Department was facing a barrage of criticism for the way it handled a protest by “anti-capitalist” activists.
Published: Mar. 24, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
A developer whose proposed project was thwarted last month on the basis of procedural rules may have found a way to resurrect it – on the basis of procedural rules.
Published: Mar. 10, 2012 7:00 PM | Full story
Editorial: The folks who run the Orange County Animal Shelter love animals, but the fewer dogs and cats they see, the happier they are.
Published: Mar. 4, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Most residents and town leaders seem to agree that we don't want university students, at least not in great numbers, living in our established residential neighborhoods.
Published: Feb. 26, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
"Drivers on cell phones are as bad as drunks."
Published: Feb. 19, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Editorial: If town officials had said two months ago what they said last week about the Yates raid, they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble.
Published: Feb. 12, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Chapel Hill's Comprehensive Plan and Northern Area Task Force identify the northern stretch of Martin Luther King Jr.
Published: Feb. 5, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
The homeless are often out of public view, which is one reason dozens of volunteers throughout the Triangle got up in the middle of the night last Tuesday to participate in a project to find and assist them.
Published: Jan. 29, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Just when you thought it was safe to truck our trash to Durham...
Published: Jan. 22, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Editorial: On Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011, a riot gear-clad force of Chapel Hill police officers charged into the Yates Motor Co. building on West Franklin Street.
Published: Jan. 15, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
The last few tents still standing in front of the post office on Franklin Street will come down Tuesday.
Published: Jan. 8, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Editor: I tell people that IP3 is our office annex, but it's true.
Published: Jan. 8, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
A few months ago, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA made a difficult but correct decision regarding its anti-discrimination policy.
Published: Jan. 1, 2012 2:00 AM | Full story
Merry Christmas.
Published: Dec. 25, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Chapel Hill's new Community Policing Advisory Committee, which was created just last spring, has been thrown into the deep end by last month's raid on the former Yates Motor Company building.
Published: Dec. 18, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The kerfuffle between three of our local hunger-relief agencies - the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service and TABLE on the one hand, and PORCH on the other - is unfortunate.
Published: Dec. 18, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
The opening of the trial of Laurence Alvin Lovette last week re-opened the scars left by the murder of Eve Carson more than three years ago.
Published: Dec. 11, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
We were dismayed to learn recently that a rift apparently has developed among three of our best local nonprofit agencies, which share the same important goal and had, until recently, collaborated well to meet that goal.
Published: Dec. 4, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Among the views we've heard regarding the Nov. 13 police raid to remove protesters who had occupied the former Yates Motor Company Building is that the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.
Published: Nov. 27, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Editorial: We hold the Chapel Hill Police Department in high regard. The local police have shown themselves many times over to be in tune with the community they protect and serve. They skillfully manage huge crowds.
Published: Nov. 20, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Editorial: The town of Chapel Hill's effort to bring order to the chaos that used to be the annual downtown Halloween celebration has been, by nearly all measures, successful.
Published: Nov. 13, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
This is the part where we remind you how important it is that you go out Tuesday and vote, if you haven't already (thank you, early voting!).
Published: Nov. 6, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Editorial: We get the impression that, in most ways, both sides in the debate over Carrboro's anti-loitering ordinance are actually on the same side.
Published: Oct. 30, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
Editorial: If you walk by the Occupy Chapel Hill encampment in front of the Franklin Street Post Office, the most prominent table, stacked with signs, sticker and brochures, belongs to Earth First!
Published: Oct. 23, 2011 2:00 AM | Full story
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