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Board of Governors to review tuition proposal, new rules for codes of conduct
The UNC Board of Governors will take up a proposal next week to ask the legislature to approve an alternative to a tuition plan adopted … Full Story »
Letter from the editor
Two thousand ten, thankfully, is just on the horizon. It’s a year that for me will mark a quarter-century since I traveled east across the … Full Story »
Local retailers offer mixed report
By Beth Mechum, Staff Writer
Local merchants worry about how lingering concerns over the economy, including continued high unemployment, will play out in this holiday shopping … Full Story »
Advanced ‘first-graders’
By Valarie Schwartz, columnist
Last week brought a visit with five women who have spent long lives knowing each other. Their relationship started in 1929 as … Full Story »
Letter: Thanks for local coverage
Thank you for your coverage of the local economy efforts under way in Carrboro (“Making Local Work for You,” 12/17/09). Margot Lester’s vision of “concentric … Full Story »
Local light
By Robert Dickson
I’m not sure when I became addicted to light. Maybe it was during the three years in the ’60s I spent imprisoned in … Full Story »
A Southern tree for all seasons
By Ken Moore, columnist
“A beautiful and popular shade tree throughout the [Cape Fear] Valley and the south. It has become a sort of cognomen for … Full Story »
Bell appointed to Chapel Hill council
BY KIRK ROSS, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL — Northside resident Donna Bell was appointed to the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night, ending months of … Full Story »
Advocates, legislators urge DHHS to slow down
BY TAYLOR SISK, Staff Writer
“It’s just very scary right now,” said Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, Orange County’s representative in the state Senate, of the latest developments … Full Story »
Crafting new green traditions
BY BETH MECHUM, Staff Writer
If there’s ever a time for tradition, a bat mitzvah is it.
There are just certain things, whether you are reform or … Full Story »
Arts cooperative opening on Franklin Street
BY RICH FOWLER, Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL — Town, university, and business leaders gathered on Monday afternoon to welcome FRANK to Chapel Hill. This … Full Story »
Making local work for you
BY MARGOT C. LESTER
There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about buying local this holiday season. And I say, right on! But I’m not an ideologue … Full Story »
Slow Down
This is that time of year when school suddenly ends, the university goes into sleep mode and most places of employment, save those in retail … Full Story »
Make your voice heard on transit
BY JAMES CARNAHAN
While world leaders in Copenhagen are striving for a global response to climate change and the emissions that trigger it, residents of Carrboro … Full Story »
Keep the reform train rolling
BY CHRIS FITZSIMON
Government reform is in the air and in the headlines in Raleigh. Gov. Beverly Perdue’s new executive orders to toughen ethics rules … Full Story »
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