Construction season begins in Hillsborough; Chapel Hill and Carrboro talk trees (and the clear-cutting thereof); and Dorosin eyes some troubling proposed state constitutional amendments.

Tom Stevens:

 

Pam Hemminger:

 

Lydia Lavelle:

 

Mark Dorosin:

 

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