Gazing into the future
It's appropriate and fun (or, at least, instructive) to look back.
A tidbit for the holidays
It's traditional, during the holiday season, for newspapers to publish a series of human interest stories that aim to capture the spirit of Christmas. The "Holiday Brights" stories ("a series about holiday joy," we call them) that
Input so far -- hot, cold
I thank those of you who have responded (so far) to my request last week for help in deciding how to improve the North Raleigh News.
Help us plan for 2005
Isn't the break from the routine that the holidays allow great? The time off from work, the holiday parties, the children's joy on Christmas morning -- I love it all.
Malls falter on the Web
Why don't Brier Creek Commons and North Hills have better Web sites?
Re: staff change, brawl
Holly::It seems like half of my columns are about staffers going or coming from the North Raleigh News section. Unfortunately (or fortunately), change is a constant of life.
Thanks for the hand!
Holly::Thanks to you, we made it over the hump. When our last schools reporter moved on, I put out a call, through this column, for readers to fill in as the "News & Notes" columnist on the School Days page. It was part of our stopgap schools cover
Time to get a subtotal?
Holly::I'm as proud as anybody of all the spiffing up going on downtown, but things are getting to the point where we have to step back and take a look at the price tag.
Election offers a snapshot
North Raleigh is conservative politically, right? Well, there's no better way to test commonly held perceptions than elections, so I crunched some numbers.
Election offers a snapshot
North Raleigh is conservative politically, right? Well, there's no better way to test commonly held perceptions than elections, so I crunched some numbers.
We've changed, too
Holly::Usually, the North Raleigh News celebrates October (our birthday month) by asking readers to send in photos. Since this year is a nice round number -- our fifth birthday -- we decided to to something a little more ambitious.
Urban suburbs? Awright!
Holly::Some call plans to build an urban-like center in the Brier Creek area and city-like buildings at North Hills Mall visionary. I say they're not visionary enough.
Finally, a new reporter
Holly::Kinea White has written schools-related stories for the North Raleigh News.
Elite lists are quite common
Holly::To the reader who sent me an e-mail message recently asking that we do a story about her being included in a "Who's Who" directory: We cannot do that, but let me give you some advice -- don't waste your time with such directories.
A little trash talking
Holly::Recently my 5-year-old daughter asked me, while stepping over junk that had found its way to the floor of my car, "Daddy, why is your car so dirty?"
A view from the North
Holly::There is an old poster that used to be popular that showed the United States viewed from the perspective of a New Yorker: New York City was about a third of the map.
A new reporter joins us
Holly::A couple of months ago, I reported that we had hired a new business reporter for the North Raleigh News -- Delawese Fulton, who before that had been our schools reporter. I promised to get back to you on who would replace Delawese covering northern Wa
Scent of scam lingers
Holly::My goal with this column is to give you information -- news you can use. (My "spin" is just the sprinkles on the ice cream.)
Act now on home prices
Holly::You may know that city leaders are in the throes of deciding what to do about the lack of affordable housing. The option being debated is "inclusionary zoning," a practice in which developers would have to make a portion of their units affordabl
Ways to do good plentiful
Holly::If you watched the Democratic National Convention on TV, you're probably feeling the urge to go out and do something good. I'm sure the upcoming Republican National Convention will engender the same feelings.
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