Category: 2009
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A prayer for my nation and my world
This is what was on my heart when I woke up this morning. Sometimes I make jokes about praying, this is not one of those times. *** I PRAY FOR…
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Up Cane Creek dazzles in Carrboro debut
CARRBORO, N.C. — In the wake of the logistical nightmare that tried to pass as a U2 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium, I was expecting something similar with the Carrboro debut…
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What does true human greatness look like?
THIS YEAR A GREAT MAN passed from this earth. That man was Robinson O. Everett. Characterized by his Duke Law School colleague Clark Havigurst as "a gentle, unassuming force of…
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Orange County sheriff breaks up doggerel ring
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — The Orange County Sheriff's Department has broken up what is believed to be central North Carolina's largest doggerel ring, an operation that officials believe may have been…
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Skin game: The reality of racial profiling
RACIAL PROFIING EXISTS. Those who say it doesn't haven't been paying attention. I know it exists because I have been racially profiled many times. When I was in high school,…
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The Golden Age of Football, a column about it
IT IS THE TIME OF THE YEAR when the crisp evening air, the smell of freshly mown grass and the sight of the sharp white lines on the gridiron remind…
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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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