The Commentators

What do Tom Brady, the superstar quarterback of the New England Patriots, and UNC have in common? Both have broken the rules of the game. It seems pretty clear that Brady knowingly colluded to deflate footballs prior to the AFC...

This is Matt Bailey. When we talk about affordable housing, we often assume we’re talking specifically about homes for residents with low incomes.  Chapel Hill definitely has an affordable housing crisis by that standard. ...

This is Judy Jones. I have been thinking and reading a great deal about the incident with the Confederate Flag and the East Chapel Hill High Students. As a retired teacher from this high school, I am saddened by the lack of...

My name is Lucy Linh Murphy. I started studying Tae Kwon Do at Kim’s White Tiger when I was five and half years old. I just turned seven in April, and I am about to test for my black belt. I have learned so much from Tae Kwon...

This is Geoff Gilson. I am a worker-owner with Weaver Street Market Co-operative. Just recently, we workers got a little scold from the powers-that-shouldn’t-be in our bi-weekly employee “Market Messenger”...

This is Jim Warren. North Carolina is on track to greatly increase its use of solar power – at a really important time in the fight to slow climate change. The bipartisan Energy Freedom Act would allow well-financed companies to...

When Betsy and I left a medical office in Cary recently, we found ourselves heading home on I-40 just after 4 o’clock on a Friday afternoon. This is a punishment that only a mean-spirited judge would use as a sentence.

Remember all the fanfare last spring surrounding the Ephesus-Fordham redevelopment plan? How the new zoning code was going to eliminate traffic congestion, solve our flooding problems, bring us new shopping opportunities, create lots of affordable housing, improve the town’s balance sheet, help us lose weight and spice up our sex lives?

Is it possible we could experience a severe drought this Summer? There is a high probability based upon long range weather forecasts, and we should be prepared. While our water reservoirs here in Orange County are at their highest peaks, a long, hot Summer with appreciable lack of rain would quickly draw down that supply.