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Opponents' agenda
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close xThe battle to stop Titan Cement from locating to our beloved coast gains momentum daily. New Hanover County commissioners have received a petition from nearly 6,000 people who oppose Titan. As we learn more, opposition grows.
Those fighting Titan sometimes are dismissed as tree huggers and accused of hijacking the area's economic development, but that is not true. We do want growth, but we want government to use incentives like the $4.2 million promised Titan to attract green jobs and businesses that pose no threat to tourism or our air and water. We do not want toxins added to an already compromised Cape Fear River and surrounding area and aquifer.
This struggle has snowballed locally and statewide and includes the Southern Environmental Law Center, N.C. Coastal Federation and Friends of the Lower Cape Fear. We want Gov. Beverly Perdue to freeze all permits until the SBI completes its investigation of possible corruption and until the courts have decided whether the State Environmental Policy Act should apply to Titan's incentives. The health and future of an entire region are at stake.
Patricia J. Moyer
Wilmington
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Destructive lies
Regarding the July 28 letter "The bad apples": The NAACP never applauded when Shirley Sherrod described her bias against a white man during the now discredited tape. Never. I saw that entire segment of the tape, and it never happened. -
The 3 percent
Claude E. Pope Jr., Wake County Republican Party chairman, used the words "forced busing" four times in his July 24 Point of View piece. Pope follows the strategy that if you repeat a slogan, people believe it, even if the idea is not true. -
They're not violent
I felt the need to write in on behalf of my clients and countless others coping with bipolar disorder after reading the article where a 21-year-old Johnston County man blamed abusing and killing a 4-year-old girl on his bipolar disorder. -
Incentives game's rules
Regarding your July 13 editorial "Incentives to pollute": Senate Bill 778 preserves the stringent environmental reviews and permitting processes companies must undergo in completing private projects that bring jobs. -
The big guns
The July 13 article "NRA widens its political reach, new ambitions, new friends" shined a spotlight on the most powerful special interest organization in the U.S. -
She'll need care
A Raleigh firefighter trainee has been charged with abducting two women in Smithfield and now faces multiple counts, including first-degree sexual assault. One of his alleged victims reports that she was kidnapped, tied to a tree and sexually assaulted. -
Waste of money
The N.C. Association of Educators wants to form a legislative study commission to see whether there is a connection between diversity and student achievement. -
Blogging behavior
The media have turned the Shirley Sherrod incident into a lament about the 24/7 news cycle and the Obama administration's overly hasty over-reaction. -
Success is a choice
I always read with interest the columns by Gene Nichol; his July 15 "Falling behind, quietly" was laced with anti-white sentiment and has no answers to poverty and its minority correlation. -
Seeming and being
Regarding the controlled choice model providing a compromise in the Wake County student assignment debate: I have spent months telling the WCPSS school board that consensus is possible on this issue if we consider proximity, stability and diversity.
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