Letter: The 2010 Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Carolinas Gala Committee and the North Carolina Steering Committee are seeking nominations from residents of North and South Carolina for the annual Equality and Legacy/Trailblazer Awards.
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
My View: What do these items have in common?
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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Faith in Focus: Sharing the peace or passing of the peace in the liturgy of Christian worship is a common practice in area congregations.
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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Letter: This letter was sent to Mayor Bil Bell and the Durham City Council:
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Mayor Bill Bell and three incumbent City Council members won landslide re-elections Tuesday, each taking more than 71 percent of the vote.
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Guest Column: I cannot come to the banquet,
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: What a night for North Carolina Democrats!
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: The kids have spoken in Durham's 2009 Mayor and City Council Elections and the results may surprise you!
Published: Nov. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Editor's Note: Dan Hudgins meets me in a white cap that says "Got Freedom?" across the top.
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
My View: What did you hear about Obama's speech to the high schools? Did you know he had a cabinet member visit Southern High School that day? And that his speech was played live in our school auditorium?
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Guest Column: American college athletics, a report says, is "a highly organized commercial enterprise."
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: Having just driven back from Watauga County on Sunday evening, specifically picturesque Blowing Rock, I witnessed one of three electronic billboards. How unsightly and distracting it was.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Last year, North Carolina voters set record high turnout in the midst of a historic contest for the White House. But a year later, voting booths could be sadly silent in Chapel Hill and other cities across the state on Nov.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: In his October 10 column Primary Turnout Sets "New Low" Jim Wise points out that $175,000 was spent on Durham's City Council primary election where only 5,988 individuals voted. The assumption is that $29.23 a vote is too much to spend.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: The Emily Krzyzewski Center, a learning center that serves high-potential, economically disadvantaged students, hosted a free basketball clinic for local girls and boys on Saturday, Sept. 26. The center worked with Duke University and N.C.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Editor's Note: Let's hope the state of North Carolina and the City of Winston-Salem learned from the multi-million dollar Dell debacle.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for its 38th annual Leadership Durham program.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Faith in Focus: Instead of debating whether Halloween is a satanic holiday or merely a secular one, churches can find middle ground and "out-narrate" a negative perception of Halloween with the tradition of All Saints, says a Duke Divinity School professor.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:09 AM | Full story
Wise: Ellerbe (or Ellerbee - take your pick) Creek has been a point of contention here lately, with Northgate Park neighbors annoyed about a restoration plan that looks like 20 years of overgrown scrub and Wake County griping about how much crud it carries into their drinking water.
Published: Oct. 31, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: In regards to rezoning for "Treyburn Middle School," Snow Hill Road residents displayed "No School" signs. These signs may have misrepresented our intentions.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:43 AM | Full story
Letter: What does voting do? It resolves the question: How will we make collective decisions?
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
My View: At a concert in Meymandi Hall on October 9, the North Carolina Symphony played the "Nimrod" movement of Elgar's "Enigma Variations" to commemorate the recent death of Maxine Swalin, the wife of long-time conductor Benjamin Swalin, and one of the stalwart supporters responsible for the very existence of our state symphony orchestra.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Editor's Note: Marcia Owen flips through the Google maps. Each page shows the area around Shepherd's House United Methodist Church at East Main and Driver streets, where she works.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Letter: Certain dogs must be made of popping corn. As they bounce and spring themselves higher and higher I can't help but visualize microscopic kernels of Orville Redenbacher exploding in their muscle fibers.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Faith in Focus: A reception honoring the Rev. Mel Williams, pastor at Watts Street Baptist, on the 40th anniversary of his ordination as a minister will be held after the 11 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Oct. 25.
Published: Oct. 24, 2009 2:41 AM | Full story
My View: How much does it cost to pay a debt to society? Twenty years, maybe 30, or does it take the rest of one's life?
Published: Oct. 24, 2009 2:13 AM | Full story
Letter: All Friends of Transit...
Published: Oct. 24, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Guest Column: Advocates for people with mental illness, developmental disability or addiction have called for a special session of the General Assembly to prevent a collapse of the system that is supposed to provide services to some of the most vulnerable people in the state.
Published: Oct. 24, 2009 2:59 AM | Full story
Letter: As one of your neighbors in Durham, I thought you folks downstream from me ought to be filled in on what's happening up here to your drinking water sources.
Published: Oct. 24, 2009 2:57 AM | Full story
Letter: I very much appreciated your thoughtful coverage of the affair involving Police Captain B. J. Council in [the Saturday, Oct. 3] N&O.
Published: Oct. 21, 2009 9:31 AM | Full story
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