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Bill would be hard to swallow

As I write this on Thursday, I don't know what will happen in the legislature to the bill that is at the top of Durham city and county leaders' wish list this year. Published: Jul. 19, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Dance festival's main stage shouldn't be torture chamber

Yul Brynner, the King in the '50s Broadway hit musical "The King and I," had a stock response to his uppity schoolteacher's ideas for progress in Siam: "Is a puzzlement." Published: Jul. 19, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Net Crashers

Recent storm activity has opened what appears to be a large "hole" in what our community has come to expect as "public safety" and "service". Published: Jul. 19, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Hats Off

Garden groups put life into library. Published: Jul. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

If loving porter's wrong, I don't wanna drink lite

Sometimes the best thing about these sweltering hot days is that once the sun slides behind the tree line, dropping the temperature below 90, and the job comes to a halt, working men of a certain age experience the call for "Miller Time." Published: Jul. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Oh, how quickly we remember

A diamond in the rough is truly what you are, Durham Athletic Park. We see that now. Published: Jul. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

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