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How we cut our school’s trash

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

Student safety, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ top priority

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

When did ‘neighbor’ become a dirty word

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

Transit service for county’s disabled leaves riders stranded

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

What Dr. King’s dream means to me today

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

Activist, professor inspire me to speak out

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

My cousin and others don’t have to die

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

Are you Internet addicted?

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

Help us bring clean water to India

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

YMCA committed to all members of community

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

Step up and help choose the direction

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

Chapel Hill town budget process off-track

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

Y undermines principles

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

YMCA actions unfortunate

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

Free trade promise has failed U.S., Mexico

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

Who will build our workforce housing?

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

What price preservation?

Good art forces us to look at truths we would rather avoid. Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story

A little too much Good Will

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

YMCA must put greatest need first

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

Who’s calling the shots at the YMCA?

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

King’s message inspires

“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

Our illogical war on deer

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

Serious concerns surround Lee school

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

Where is oversight at animal research facility?

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

No room for moral high ground on drug use

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

Yoga cultivating peace from Carrboro to Kenya

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

New Northside school to bridge past and future

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

Don’t delay Jordan Lake cleanup

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

Town wellness program a win-win

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

A call to white churches to join continuing fight against racism

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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