Category: Local
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My wife and my life: An Internet investigation
THE INTERNET IS GREAT! You can find out all kinds of things with it — without even getting out of your pajamas. (Traditional journalists are often derisive of bloggers "blogging…
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Very Briefly: The News in Briefs
This week's local, state, national and international news pre-digested for your consumptive pleasure. Carrboro to star in network TV series. CARRBORO, N.C. — The mid-season replacement television show The Goode…
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A mediated political pop quiz
TEST YOUR POLITICAL IQ to learn what you may not have learned from the massive mass media. 1) In the first apparent action by the Obama administration which might lead…
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I write the songs; really, I do
ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, one of my putative readers (who would really admit to such a thing?) has said to me, and I paraphrase, "I like your column because…
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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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My love/hate affair with Thom. Jefferson
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND I are both from Charlottesville, so that would make us natural allies — or perhaps rivals. I really admire the guy, though I think that if we…
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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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Gaddy to be replaced as columnist
DURHAM, N.C. — Higher management of the Durham Herald-Sun announced today that, effective with today's column, Gary D. Gaddy has been replaced as the Chapel Hill Herald's Leading Regular Thursday…
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