My View: It takes time to build relationships, time to overcome the assumptions that often keep us separated in silence.
Published: Jun. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
I’m wondering where common sense has gone among our Durham City Council members. Just as fire and police protection, home garbage collection is a basic municipal service which should always be funded through taxes because every household generates trash.
Published: Jun. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Commentary: “At this particular point in time,” a common, overstuffed phrase that means “now” is one of the verbal tics of a veteran Raleigh TV weatherman, whose name and station I leave to your powers of divination.
Published: Jun. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Commentary: On May 28 the Durham Board of Adjustment ruled against Good Neighbors of 751, three residential areas along N.C. 751 South that challenged the Planning Department’s July 2012 approval of a 120-foot super-tree cell tower that would stand at the front door of their neighborhoods.
Published: Jun. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: As we honor our fathers today, presenting them cards with meaningful verses, perfect gifts, and celebrations, let’s stop and remember two things: many men in prison are fathers, and all men in prison have (or had) fathers.
Published: Jun. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Put Saturday, June 15, on your calendar now if you are a foodie and love chili!
Published: Jun. 15, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: My grandmother had always talked about the day I got married I would take in my two adolescent brothers. Ages 9 and 10, Mike and Allen were the sons of my stepmother. She had died in a car crash while en route to see my father in the hospital. He died of cancer six months later.
Published: Jun. 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
We should have caught the spelling of the GOP’s call to worship.
Published: Jun. 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: We are students from Aaron Sebens’ fourth-grade class at Central Park School in Durham. We are doing a project to make our classroom solar powered so that we only use clean energy.
Published: Jun. 8, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Four members of the Durham City Council voted not in the best interest of the city, but in the best interest of themselves.
Published: Jun. 8, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: I never got justice as a little girl. It took me nearly 30 years to disclose that I was sexually abused as a child. I didn’t share or open up because I didn’t think anyone would believe me or, worse, do anything about it.
Published: Jun. 8, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: One of the great pleasures in my life is gardening. Of course it didn’t start out that way.
Published: Jun. 8, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Given our sad economic circumstances, I am fearful that our county commissioners are going to overlook the big bang for our buck that Durham County gets via matching-grants programs like those conducted through Durham Open Space and Trails, Keep Durham Beautiful, and the Soil and Water Conservation District.
Published: Jun. 5, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: My mother’s family had a genius for upcycling. Their county roads were scraped dirt, so driving in severe weather was scary and daring, particularly in the school bus and particularly since the drivers were high school seniors. If the bus strayed from its well-worn ruts, the dirt road became a Slip ‘n Slide, landing the delighted riders in a ditch.
Published: Jun. 4, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: We need programs and services to keep our youth safe, engaged, educated and prepared for careers. How many times have we heard that statement or ones similar to it at community events, forums and conversations with our city, county and school board officials?
Published: Jun. 1, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Many consider Mumia Abu-Jamal a political prisoner.
Published: Jun. 1, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Enabling 751 South would be a mistake of regional historical significance, and one not likely to be forgotten. Don’t be bullied by the developers’ pals in Raleigh. You are made of stronger stuff.
Published: Jun. 1, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: On 200 acres in a provincial city 40 miles west of Shanghai, Duke University President Richard Brodhead and his administration are placing their biggest wager yet that Duke has a future in the globalization of higher education.
Published: Jun. 1, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Is it really true that there’s no Democratic or Republican way to pick up garbage, as some simple-minded wags like to say?
Published: Jun. 1, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Grief, when it cuts deep and is held long, becomes an open wound.
Published: Jun. 1, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Columnist Jesse James DeConto makes the case that for every Topanga, there’s a need for someone like Winnie Cooper.
Published: May. 29, 2013 8:53 AM | Full story
One year ago I lost my mother to an eight-year battle with ovarian cancer, and so I thought it would be very appropriate for me to write in support of the 2013 Turn the Towns Teal campaign(turnthetownsteal.org).
Published: May. 29, 2013 8:54 AM | Full story
Commentary: The attitude at City Hall is shifting from “How do we stop this?” to “How much can we bargain for?”
Published: May. 28, 2013 1:19 PM | Full story
Commentary: Public charter schools in rural North Carolina present an opportunity for more school choice options and economic development in the state’s 85 rural counties. Parental school choice gives parents the freedom to meet their children’s needs regardless of income or address.
Published: May. 27, 2013 6:22 PM | Full story
My View: I have limited recollection of my mother taking me by the hand when I was younger.
Published: May. 25, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Every morning in Panama I woke up to women singing “desayunoooo,” (breakfast) to the syncopated rhythm of a wooden spoon clanging against a cow bell. During carnival season in Portobelo, the music never stops.
Published: May. 21, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: If there were a heart carved into a beech tree with John Kent’s name, it might read “John loves New Hope Creek.”
Published: May. 21, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: Durham has challenges unique to the Triangle. Our students benefit from Durham County’s high-tech, highly educated, entrepreneurial environment. But there are also strong concentrations of need and economic stress among Durham’s children that are not comparable to other area school systems.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Walking along the Eno’s Buckquarter Creek Trail a friend and I were discussing the new businesses along Geer Street. “I love the new coffee shop, and one of the owners is a person of color,” I said to her.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
I am a HUGE Durham fan and have aligned my resources with this preference. I am writing (the City Council) to ask that you each vote to allow the removal of the landmark status for the Liberty Warehouse.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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