Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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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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140 characters to twittering success
IN THE CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE, we must change or die. I ain't ready to die. So, I guess I have to learn how to twitter. So, I'll start *** I…
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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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A very third-personal column
GARY GADDY is going to miss Roland Burris. In case you missed it, Roland Burris is the Illinois politician who took Barack Obama's senate seat after being appointed by another…
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