'Clean house' shouldn't mean littered city streets You might not have noticed the large paper signs attached to telephone poles all over Durham Tuesday afternoon. At almost 2 feet by 3 feet, the bright orange and yellow signs were hard to miss, but rain and paper don’t mix well. With only a few staples to hold them, they became colorful litter by Wednesday morning. In case you missed them, they read: " Clean House Yard Sale / Sat. D...
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Living life to its fullest Everyone has a story. It’s one reason why being in newspapers is so interesting. This week, one story told provided equal doses of inspiration and sadness. Monday I attended a memorial service for Jennifer Kalkhof. It’s my loss that I never knew Jennifer. I knew only of her battle with cancer through her husband, Bill. His name is of the household variety in most of Durham’s ...
‘Jobs-and-economy voters’ have it right Jobs and the economy — looking at public opinion polls, there is no other issue more important to voters in 2010. Political analysts are saying that voter attitudes prompt an important caution to candidates this year: Fail to offer proposals on how, if elected, you plan to help grow jobs and stimulate economic recovery and you are likely to end up on the losing side in your election. This is t...
A chance to put principle over politics State legislative races are not just being more closely watched and fiercely contested this year because of the tea party’s emergence, the public anxiety about the state’s economy or even the Right’s obsession with stalling the implementation of health care reform
No surprise on the cost of Obama health care reform A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is being described as “surprising” because it undercuts the promise of ObamaCare to cut health care costs by reducing emergency-room visits
I have a dream When I look around me and see children that are hungry, wearing dirty clothes and living in a poisonous environment it hurts. When children are left alone to fend for themselves these experiences stay with them for life and many future decisions are made because of the past. I dream of full children wide-eyed with expectancy, with the belief the world is their oyster and they can overcome all ...
Anti-violence vigil a step toward healing in Durham Durham’s annual vigils against violence are profound and moving services that honor the memory of homicide victims and call the community to action. This year, the vigil is at 7 p.m. Thursday at Shepherds House United Methodist Church, 107 North Driver St. at the corner of East Main. It is sponsored by the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham, Parents of Murdered Children and Durh...
State Supreme Court decision undermines freedom During the early days of the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin famously told his fellow patriots that "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately
The Godzilla in the mirror The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages? Its implosion has continued since "the Cluster of Copenhagen, when world leaders assembled for the single most unproductive and chaotic global gathering ever held
A race without ambivalence For decades, Pennsylvania has perfected a unique politics of ambivalence in its Senate races, sending to Washington nonconformists who do not fit comfortably into their parties’ norms but reflect accurately the subtle variations within their constituencies
