Carrboro High names football, basketball coaches
The school board on Thursday approved the hiring of the men’s head basketball coach and head football coach at Carrboro High School, which opens in August.
Jason Tudryn was named head football coach and exceptional education teacher. Tudryn comes to Carrboro from Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Fl., where [...]
By Patrick Barnes and Mike Cross
In the mid-1980s, Dare County’s leaders saw a housing boom coming and didn’t know how to pay for it.
Higher property taxes were a touchy issue in the coastal county. The rich didn’t want them and the poor couldn’t afford them. Taxes on hotel rooms and other purchases wouldn’t raise enough.
Their [...]
Echoes from Blacksburg
Grief is immediate and lasting at the same time. In Blacksburg, a community much like our own, it has settled in while the town and the world stands in shock.
The echoes sounding on a survivor’s cell phone had barely faded when the conversation veered from anguish to politics and what to do about [...]
By Louisa Warren
North Carolina lawmakers deserve great praise for passing a substantial lobbying and ethics reform package last year that will truly help change the pay-to-play culture that ruled in the General Assembly. But unfortunately there’s a fundamental flaw to the legislation that threatens to stain their good work and further erode public confidence.
When lawmakers [...]
Help Wanted
With the race for the Democratic nomination for governor tightening, it’s looking less and less like either Richard Moore or Beverly Perdue are going to blink and veer onto the federal side of the ballot to take on Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
With the two most well-funded and visible Dems not inclined to take on Liddy, [...]
By Frank Heath
You wake up on a beautiful Tuesday morning, but the power remains out in half of Chapel Hill, and 33 people are still dead on the campus of Virginia Tech.
Sometimes we make sports out to be as important as the things that go on in real life; but they’re not. Sports become like [...]
By Jim Warren
Power company influence – including suppression of criticism and public relations smokescreens – continues to damage our democratic process and threaten regional safety.
Last fall, NC WARN, the Union of Concerned Scientists and others began legal action to compel the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to enforce its rules after allowing Shearon Harris to violate [...]
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