Category: Local
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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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Energy independence in eight years
ONE OF THE CURRENT CROP OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES says that he will bring energy independence to the United States "by the end of his second term." Believe it or not,…
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