Commentary: We are very excited about our findings and hope that other schools can follow this model sustainability initiative. Imagine the amount of trash we can divert from going to landfill when 12 elementary, four middles schools and three high schools start using our model.
Published: Mar. 5, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: While learning is the undisputed priority in school districts nationwide, there is one – and only one – aspect of education that trumps even learning: the safety of our students.
Published: Mar. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: It’s as if having affection for your community and home is enough to brand you as an impediment to all kinds of progress, from growth and development to understanding the way the world has changed.
Published: Mar. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: It’s time for a “reality check” regarding the transportation needs of those underserved by Chapel Hill Transit, and to consider the plight of Orange County Transportation (OPT), whose funds cannot adequately serve our county’s disabled.
Published: Mar. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Today’s dream includes holding hands together, as Dr. King says, “white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics” together with Pakistanis and Indians, Tibetans and Chinese, French and Arabs, Hutu and Tutsi, along with gays, lesbians, atheist, and many, many other people I can’t acknowledge because this essay has a 600-word limit.
Published: Mar. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The room was huge and flooded with college students. It was pretty dark, and as it got closer for me to speak, I could feel myself getting more nervous by the minute.
Published: Feb. 26, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: In August, I lost my 25-year-old cousin Nick to an opiate overdose. A 911 Good Samaritan law and readily available access to Naloxone could have prevented this.
Published: Feb. 26, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: When you add it all up – incessant Web surfing; over-allegiance to chat rooms, forums and discussion groups; fixation on online pornography, gambling and games; music, movie and other media downloading – the portrait of a society and indeed a world sitting on its derriere, breezing through one screen after another emerges.
Published: Feb. 26, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Aztech Labs has two goals. Our first goal is to make water filters available to communities in need, like the villages we are working with now in India. Our second goal is to improve the design of low-cost water filters by sponsoring a worldwide award for the most innovative design improvements to water filters.
Published: Feb. 25, 2013 4:15 PM | Full story
Commentary: Given our limited funds, capital expansion is not an option for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA at this time, so we needed to find areas in the Y that could be renovated and repurposed.
Published: Feb. 24, 2013 2:13 PM | Full story
Commentary: Lost a good friend the other day. And as the hound and I drove across the snowy mountains back to the home state, had a little time to reflect on a remarkable life.
Published: Feb. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The town is trying a new priority budgeting system to try to make budget choices clearer. But there are signs that this new vehicle is not yet ready for the road.
Published: Feb. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Had the day-to-day management of the Y or the Board brought the space problems they say they face to our attention and set up discussions to deal with them, much of the present rancor would have been avoided.
Published: Feb. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: It is contrary to the spirit of the Y and just plain bad public relations practice to decide to eliminate the courts – a major Y facility – without consultation with the racquetball-handball community.
Published: Feb. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: It is past time for our policy makers to re-examine this failed system. If elected officials are serious about implementing comprehensive immigration reform, they will look to the root causes driving migration.
Published: Feb. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: On Feb. 27 the Town Council will decide whether to approve high-density student-housing between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Hillsborough Streets on the site of the Central Park Apartments. The Bicycle Apartments, luxury by-design student-housing for 608 students, would replace a modest 74-unit apartment complex.
Published: Feb. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Good art forces us to look at truths we would rather avoid.
Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The Rev. Dennis McLain and his wife Linda may well be doing the Lord’s work as chieftains of Goodwill Industries of Eastern North Carolina, feeding and clothing the poor through its 36 retail outlets, but do they really need to dun the heavenly debit card for almost $800,000 a year?
Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: As we make decisions about how the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA serves the community, we are driven by the most pressing needs of our membership and the community.
Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: There is a troubling pattern of behavior by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA Board of Directors, i.e., a failure to communicate, much less consult, with its membership.
Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: “Everyone can be great because everyone can serve” is a service-learning quote from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the Blue Ribbon Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) focuses on continuously.
Published: Feb. 12, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: So here we go again. The overpopulation of humans in the Triangle area are having issues with deer.
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The serious, hard facts need to be considered before our community agrees to place the Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School on beautiful Homestead Road above Bolin Creek.
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The UNC animal research facility has been operated out in rural Orange County without sufficient oversight. While there has been some transparency, most of it has been reactive and after the fact. Many of the facts are buried deep in UNC document storage.
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Mind-altering substance use is a complicated issue. To tut-tut that it is just plain bad and then to vaguely and impotently suggest as Bogley does that “it’s time our community got serious about addressing these youthful public health threats” is worse than ineffective.
Published: Feb. 5, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The Africa Yoga Project is a nonprofit that uses yoga to empower and transform lives. It was formed shortly after the post-election violence in 2007 and 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya, and focuses on cultivating peace through training folks from the slums who formerly didn’t make a living wage to be yoga teachers.
Published: Feb. 5, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: We are in a time of unprecedented change in education. The opening of a new school, with new and innovative models on instruction and organization, offers an opportunity to truly challenge all learners.
Published: Feb. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Jordan Lake matters. It’s one of our region’s most important drinking water and recreation reservoirs.
Published: Feb. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Chapel Hill Wellness@Work was tailored to the specific needs of the town’s workforce. It includes programs to support tobacco cessation, weight loss, proper nutrition, and developing other healthy habits.
Published: Feb. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Most white churches have been unable to break the habit of accommodating racism. We know it’s hard to rebuild our communities based on God’s human family. But we must begin.
Published: Feb. 2, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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