Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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Gonna make herself welcome wherever she goes
I AM NOT SAYING I had anything to do with it but… I am hard pressed to say it was a coincidence. (Especially since I don't believe in coincidence.) Two…
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I’d like for you to meet my friend Skipper
WHEN I WAS YOUNG, maybe three or four years old, and our family was living on Marshall Terrace in Danville, Virginia, my best friend was named Paul. (We called him…
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I wuz robbed! (Yeah, and so wuz the robbers!)
I was in a convenience store recently when it was robbed. Even sitting here at my computer I can see the frightened look in your eyes. No, it wasn't a…
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Kristina takes leukemia to the pitch
KRISTINA ISN'T OUT OF THE WOODS YET. (She couldn't be because she is still in West Virginia.) And she hasn't climbed her last mountain either. (Well, she couldn't have done…
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Names in the news: Orange community spotlight
Due to comments from my editor, Dan "Oh, by the" Way, "suggesting" that I was not putting enough "Local" in my Local Voices column, this week's column is entirely local.…
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Unemployment needed at the Unemployment Office
I KNOW THE OFFICIAL NAME is the Employment Security Commission, but everywhere I have ever lived, everyone, without a hint of sarcasm, calls it the Unemployment Office – because that…
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The News in Briefs –The Mass Media Edition
Progressive media in national OCD clinical study BETHESDA, Md. — The National Institute of Mental Health announced today a $7.7 million grant to fund a collaborative study with the University…
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Dinner for Ten: A Parable of Tax Cuts
THE FOLLOWING PARABLE has floated around the Internet in various versions for a while. The author is in question but may be one Don Dodson, who submitted a letter to…
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Here’s a different lesson on taxation: A reply to a reply
BELOW IS A LETTER TO THE EDITOR of the Chapel Hill Herald written by North Carolina State Senator Eleanor Kinnaird in reply to the column above: "Dinner for Ten: A…
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How I met my wife: The true story finally revealed
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME how I met my wife I usually respond with a question: "Do you want the story we told our parents or the true story?" Or, if…
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