Viewpoints

What we can’t say is on display Monday night in Chapel Hill’s Kenan Stadium was the same ol’ North Carolina Tar Heels who never have been able to play defense. That’s a lazy take. 

A short poem: “Bill B’s First Game Goes Splat.” (With gratitude and apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author of “Casey at the Bat” 1888)

Headlines from Texas and California make clear what most Americans already know: gerrymandering has pushed democracy into crisis. Maps are being drawn not to represent voters fairly but to entrench whichever party already holds majority control.

Downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro should be places where people feel welcomed—not watched. Let’s work together to create a more inviting environment that benefits businesses, residents, and visitors alike.

When a genocide has been going on for almost two years, with scenes of horror beamed into our devices every day, it starts to seem almost like just a very unpleasant backdrop to our lives.

I believe that it’s great that people with intellectual, developmental, and other conditions can build their fitness in ways that are more engaging than jogging on a treadmill!

While Carrboro residents are grateful that there was no disruption in water or sewer service after Tropical Depression Chantal, the devastation and near tragic events the night of July 6th  in the Weatherhill Pointe community, downstream of University Lake, would seem to demand a more thorough investigation.

This essay is a case study in liberal delusion — a smokescreen for the capitalist class dressed up in technocratic concern. The author claims to care about housing and working families, but every solution they offer up is rooted in the same failed capitalist logic that created this crisis in the first place.

Voters keep sending the same message: This isn’t working. Across the United States – and throughout many Western democracies – there’s a rising sense that the political establishment is out of touch with the realities people face.