Category: Business
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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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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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The incredible shrinking newspaper
I HATE TO WRITE AN OBITUARY for something that isn't quite dead yet — but the American newspaper is in a death spiral. I hate to write its obit in…
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Now introducing . . . the Albatross!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Congress today ordered General Motors to begin producing "as quickly as feasible" a brand new model for its Cadillac line of passenger vehicles, the Albatross.…
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Palindrome, spelled backwards
ADAVEN, Nevada — Even as the Conservation Laboratory for Palindromes, plc, (CLP plc), a private-public partnership which seeks to preserve the palindrome for posterity, petitions Congress to add the palindrome…
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What a waste! And its transfer
I AM A RESIDENT EXPERT on waste disposal landfills. I used to live next to one. My apartment complex abutted the Chesapeake, Virginia, city landfill. My building sat closer to…
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The burdens of being a Local Voice
I AM A LOCAL VOICE. It says so right here in the paper. Look, up at the top of this column. It'd be nice if I could be a disembodied…
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