2003 will be felt in future
There's no need (nor space) to do an exhaustive look back at 2003 from a northern Wake perspective, but I thought I would recap the three top events that will impact the area's future: 1) The awarding of a $67 million contract for the next leg o
Little news is big news
Earlier this week, a couple of days after Saddam Hussein's capture, we stood around the North Raleigh News office planning a practical joke on the folks next door in The News & Observer's main newsroom. The joke was to go like this: One of u
Beatles said it best
When I had sung all the bedtime songs to my daughter so many times that we were both sick of them, I started singing her Beatles' songs -- simply because I know a lot of the lyrics. When you sing Beatles songs to a 4-year-old, though, you notice that
Giving kids a real gift
If your family is like mine, you spend a lot of money on birthday gifts for friends' kids. I'm sure most kids do what ours do -- play with the gifts for a month or so then throw them into the toy basket. So I was intrigued when I heard how broth
It's all in the name
Dan Holly::A story I heard in college goes like this: One spring morning, a group of Harvard students file into a room and sit down to take the final exam in their philosophy class. The professor passes out the exam, and students are shocked to see only one word:
Size isn't all that matters
Dan Holly::I don't know what it feels like to be the owner of a nearby business and walk into the new Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 70 for the first time, but I imagine it must be a little like I felt in the eighth grade when our basketball team played St. Rita
Good ink for a good egg
Dan Holly::A lot of young folks get their names into the paper for doing something wrong; I'm happy to give Christy Nash some ink for doing something right. Nash, a 22-year-old North Raleigh resident, is collecting material for holiday gift baskets for patients
Credit where it's due
Dan Holly::My advice in the talk I gave to high school students last week about writing a column was to always choose a topic you feel passionately about -- whether positively or negatively. Thinking about it on the way home, though, I realized that I have found a l
Service can be uncanny
Dan Holly::If you're like me and you don't like to pay more for something than you have to (or, as my wife would say, "cheap"), you've probably discovered the joy of the 25-cent soda machine. You've probably also discovered the frustrat
Who is truly poor?
Dan Holly:: It seems like every store has someone outside soliciting money for this cause or that soup kitchen.
Reach out and touch us
Dan Holly::Do you want to know where the North Raleigh News is located? You won't find out by reading it. Our address is not in our paper on a consistent basis.
Snack food for the mind
Dan Holly:: Should we call Falls of the Neuse "Caffeine Row"?
Citizens: Send us photos
Dan Holly::Maybe it's because everybody has been out buying water and batteries. Or maybe it's because, the first two times I wrote about this, I waited until the bottom of the column and nobody reads that far. For whatever reason, we have not one photogra
High school football rocks
Dan Holly::High school football is one of the best deals going.
New, tried and true
Dan Holly::New series will focus on Millbrook High School.
Face it: Malls R us
Dan Holly::If you took away the part of Raleigh below the Beltline, North Raleigh would be a fairly viable metropolitan area . But there would be no downtown. Or would there? A downtown is really just a hub, the place where people and commerce gather.
The future is smaller
Dan Holly::Sometimes you're driving along and you look to the side of the road and, all of a sudden, you're 40 years in the past. You see an old house that's a throwback to the old South. One can imagine Native Son's forefathers relaxing on the f
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