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Fashion to Fall For

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Oct 20, 2012 | The Fashion Plate

Time to step into fall fashionably armed with key pieces of the season. Embrace a style escapade of rich textures, patterns and prints. If you haven’t already embarked on your seasonal shopping adventure, let’s begin. Here...

Codes of loyalty lead to corruption in a new novel

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 19, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Close friendships and lifelong loyalty: these are good things, aren’t they? Don’t we admire the way some childhood friends look out for each other all their lives? And don’t the close bonds that develop among participants in...

Respect Our Greenways

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 19, 2012 | The Commentators

The Town of Chapel Hill is fortunate, indeed, to have one of the finest “Green Transportation Systems” to be found anywhere in North Carolina. It’s a wonderful emerald necklace comprised of 14 miles of paved...

A UNC Basketball Coaches Respect, Connection and Relationship with Bill Friday

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 18, 2012 | The Commentators

My Tribute to W.C. “Bill” Friday After hearing the sad news of Mr. Friday’s death last Friday, University Day, I found the following tribute I began writing 2 years ago on the top of my desk. I write this for two reasons (maybe...

Train Stations Make Innovation Clusters

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 15, 2012 | The Commentators

I would like to commend the Triangle Transit Authority (TTA) and the Board of Orange County Commissioners (BOCC) for an exceptional job in developing a plan for our future transit infrastructure. This plan calls for the...

Turning defeat into victory the William Friday way

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 15, 2012 | D.G. Martin

By dying on October 12, the 219th anniversary of the university’s founding, UNC President Emeritus William Friday once again turned a seeming defeat into a victory. It was, some were saying, just like Presidents Jefferson and...

Deep Sea Vents, The Key to the Biggest Questions in the Universe?

Posted by Jeff Danner | Oct 15, 2012 | Common Science

By the 1970s, we pretty much thought we had the world figured out. You name it – quantum physics, black holes, DNA, plate tectonics, evolution, space travel – we knew all there was to know about it. (Though to be...

Re: Community is bigger than Neighborhood

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 11, 2012 | The Commentators

The recent commentary by Kristen Smith was deeply offensive to this longtime neighborhood advocate and also quite silly. Fixated on the Olympics, she seemed oblivious to their central purpose: competition. When she exhorted us...

The Lost Colony, Blackbeard, the Wright Brothers and who?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 11, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Who was North Carolina’s greatest civil-rights hero? Hundreds, even thousands, of North Carolinians in the 1960’s can claim hero status. But their quest for justice and equality were inspired by men and women who...

Voting on Transit: What's at Stake

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 10, 2012 | The Commentators

I served on the Chapel Hill Town Council from 1973 to 1979, and under the leadership of then Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee and Terry Lathrop, assisted to help pass the 1974 referendum when Chapel Hill voters, by a 2 to 1 margin,...

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