Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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Local writer’s wife goes missing
CHAPEL HILL — The wife of the Chapel Hill Herald's leading Thursday columnist has gone missing, according to a spokesperson for the Chapel Hill Police Department's Investigative Unit. Foul play…
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Columns when I don’t have an idea
ONE QUESTION MANY OF MY LOYAL READERS (as well as some of my sometime skimmers) regularly ask me is this: "What do you do when you don't have any column…
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America’s best anti-poverty program
HEAD UP TOWARDS HILLSBOROUGH (just about up to I-85), or over towards Durham (just across I-40), and you will find something quite interesting. It is a privately owned, nationally operated…
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Dean Dome collapses from “jersey fatigue”
CHAPEL HILL — The roof of the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center collapsed last night causing major damage to the facility where the University of North Carolina plays its…
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Claus arrested in “Baby Jesus plot”
CHAPEL HILL — On Wednesday, following the culmination of a months-long racketeering investigation, agents from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested Santa "Knicky" Claus on a charge of…
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Honky’s: “Just like eating at home”
AMONG THE PLETHORA OF ETHNIC RESTAURANTS in the greater Chapel Hill/ Carrboro area, one would be hard pressed to find even a sliver of space that hasn't long ago been…
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Meet Time’s 2006 Person of the Year: Me!
(Special to GaryGaddy.com, a column not heretofore published, but now, with newly lowered standards, available for public perusal, in a not-so-subtle bid to get Time to repeat me as Man…
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Revisiting the presidential candidates
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, resting comfortably in my Orange County estate, I did a survey of the leading as well as lagging candidates for president of the United States. After some…
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Jesus: I am not coming back
CHAPEL HILL – Just as the Christmas shopping season was beginning, a damper has come down on the holiday's festive spirit, as Jesus announced Wednesday that he is canceling his…
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Candid yams contain truth serum
RALEIGH – A team of scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina announced today a discovery that may explain why so many Thanksgiving dinners go…
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