GUEST COLUMN: Public education faces the bleakest budget year in decades. Parents and supporters of education must stand and be counted to ensure that our public schools are positioned to prepare our children to be globally competitive. Recent tax protests make ed
Published: May. 24, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: Editor's note: The following poem was read at the April 30 meeting held by United with the Northside Community Now.
Published: May. 20, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: In his April 16 column "Exclusion by Design," Augustus Cho muses about separate meetings for Latino and African-American parents in our school system, and concludes that such meetings are counterproductive. "Don't most parents ... face
Published: May. 18, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: Orange County Manager Laura Blackmon has recommended closing the Carrboro Branch Library at the McDougle schools and moving its librarian and her assistant to Hillsborough to staff the new county library slated to open in the fall.
Published: May. 18, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: During the year, many local citizens mark their calendar by certain events within their community. Folks know what to expect during certain months, year after year. For example, in August, the townsfolk of Chapel Hill know that students will flock ba
Published: May. 11, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: Recently, the ultimate "cool mom" and an "adult" friend were arrested at her Missouri home for providing alcohol to teens. Both are charged with felony endangerment.
Published: May. 11, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: and Chapel Hill residents -- are holding out hope that the Obama administration's "stimulus" plan will put our nation's faltering economy back on the road to recovery. This faith, however, is unfounded.
Published: May. 11, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: How sweet to read "I Love Needles" ("My View" March 29). Happy needle stories move people into "tuning up" with a new/old art/science.
Published: May. 6, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: After years of preparation, planning, design and construction the new Orange County Animal Services Center at 1601 Eubanks Road in Chapel Hill is finally wrapping up. This center will, for the first time since the creation of the Animal Services Depa
Published: May. 4, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
Iread with amusement the start of Augustus Cho's My View column (CHN April 12) lamenting the copious paperwork children tote home at the start of each school year. I've had three children in the CHCCS system and my August stack used to cause me
Published: Apr. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
I am a bibliophile. I love books. I mean love them -- more than food or wine, or -- well, anything else. I'm nuts, I know, but I can't help it. This is an illness. I need a therapist. But put me on a couch and I will read a book and happily pay
Published: Apr. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
In response to UNC professor Paul Cuadros's piece last Sunday, "America's tug of war," I would point out that Cuadros' comments exemplify much of what is wrong in both the immigration debates and the national scandal that recently
Published: Apr. 26, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
It may be hard to believe after so many years, but by early this summer UNC and the Town of Chapel Hill will reach agreement on development of a new campus on the site of the Horace Williams Airport.
Published: Apr. 26, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
I think we've lost our confidence, and I'm not talking about the economy. I'm talking about losing our confidence in our deliberate, well-thought out decisions. Specifically, I am talking about Greenbridge.
Published: Apr. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
I was pleased to see the N.C. Department of Public Instruction delay implementation of Project Graduation until 2011. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district will rule on whether to fund the program this year, despite the state's ruling April 23. Th
Published: Apr. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Following a retired 77-year-old classics professor into remote Guatemalan villages to do something no one else has ever done is the trip of a lifetime.
Published: Apr. 19, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
We have been engaged with the Northside community since 2005. We held 15 public hearings and several voluntary meetings at the Hargraves Center.
Published: Apr. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
The Chapel Hill Library has admirably served the information needs of the residents of Chapel Hill and provided the same service to people living in the county outside the town.
Published: Apr. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
I would like to respond to a letter in the April 1 Chapel Hill News stating that Carrboro High School is receiving inequitable funding. The school board is fully committed to the success of every child and to each of our schools. High schools are all
Published: Apr. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
On March 23, the Town Council rejected the development plan for Aydan Court, a medium-density residential development proposed on NC 54 East, close to Meadowmont. Obviously, reasonable people can disagree about the desirability of medium or high-dens
Published: Apr. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
The smokefree indoor air bill moving through the General Assembly is first and foremost about protecting the health of workers. It would give employees in restaurants, bars and other smoke-filled workplaces the same protection workers in smokefree en
Published: Apr. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
It is still possible, in these dire financial times, to receive a healthy return on investment, a return that not only benefits you individually, but also communities and states across our country. At this point you may be asking what you can do to s
Published: Mar. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
On the subject of the continuing Israeli-Hamas conflict, I am astonished by the appalling willingness of so many to draw conclusions with no basis in fact.
Published: Mar. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
The March 8 Chapel Hill News headline said it all: "Officials try to soothe tax revolters."
Published: Mar. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Orange County is a great place to live in part because we have a progressive government that constantly attempts to balance service imperatives, the desire to promote education, equity and environmental protection, and the very real burdens of taxati
Published: Mar. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Like Orange County, now the Town of Chapel Hill has been approached by interested parties to restrict or eliminate tethering of dogs. Why? The Town Council has been told that tethering is inhumane and promotes all sorts of problems for the animals an
Published: Mar. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
My heart goes out to Hillel Abrams, whose letter detailed the death of his dog, Spencer, from a reaction to vaccines ("Dog's demise began after vaccinations," March 8).
Published: Mar. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
On Sunday, I'm going to be walking with hundreds of other people on the four-mile CROP Hunger Walk to raise money to feed the hungry.
Published: Mar. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Do difficult economic times cause us to complain more, and then cause us to want to take action? Lately a dialogue about the future of Chapel Hill has become more vocal among Chapel Hill homeowners, business owners and residents, who recognize that w
Published: Mar. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
The Chapel Hill Town Council has been getting an earful lately from citizens about density in town.
Published: Mar. 15, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
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