Viewpoints Submissions

Hi Neighbors! I want to share my thoughts on something that’s been going on in the area for years – the feeding of deer.

Jean Bolduc’s recent Chapelboro column, “It’s Science,” dismisses the Senate investigation of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “ridiculous political exercise” centered on a “favorite conspiracy topic.”

The Michael Whatley campaign has attacked Roy Cooper with a barrage of harsh, provocative ads criticizing the governor for complying with a court order forcing him to release 3,500 inmates from prison.

As a Rashkis parent, I am excited about the idea of one track from the STEAM² program joining our long-standing community. One of the main reasons I am excited is the vision of combining our two distinct cultures.

The longtime North Carolina sportswriter Art Chansky has written a piece that I wish I could have found shocking.

About a week ago, I was walking my puppy through the woods at the end of Mendel Drive Extension in the Old Forest Creek neighborhood, as I and others do every day.

Like many families, I attended the July 16th Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board meeting expecting to hear where Glenwood Elementary’s integrated STEAM² program might go. Instead, I left thinking about something much bigger.

On April 30th, Governor Josh Stein signed House Bill 696 (HB 696) into law, ending a protracted funding shortfall for the state’s Medicaid program, which provides health insurance coverage to over three million low-income, disabled, and elderly North Carolinians.

The day after the CHCCS Board of Education voted to close Glenwood Elementary, my kindergarten son brought home his first school yearbook. We hadn’t yet told him the news; I still needed to process my feelings.

With the countenance of an enraged bullfrog, Rep. Brenden Jones berated the chief of Chapel Hill’s public schools. His purpose was to create a spectacle: the fearless champion of rural North Carolina castigating a woke miscreant.