Month: August 2009
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Not anywhere in the vicinity of common sense
IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY OTHER WEEK I am writing about the latest local outbreak of NIMBYism. I hope you are not tiring of my writing about “Not in My Backyard”…
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Talking health care reform in Carrboro
LAST TUESDAY NIGHT I was having a drink on the patio outside Panzanella in Carr Mill Mall following a meeting at Club Nova intended to help the board catch a…
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The Reverend Ike dead and gone, but not forgotten
AMERICA’S LEADING “Green Evangelist” died last month. No, Al Gore is doing fine — as far as I know. It was the Reverend Frederick Eikerenkoetter II who passed from this…
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Cash for Clunkers wildly successful, sort of
I WAS SO GLAD TO HEAR that Cash for Clunkers, the Congressional program where ordinary citizens are given thousands of dollars to trade in their old wasteful, noxious- gas-spewing clunkers…
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