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Commentary: Thirteen months ago children were playing on Atka Court in Durham on a warm spring night when a man in a green van shot and killed 13-year-old Shakanah China. Isn’t the murder of an innocent little girl enough by itself to spark outrage?
Modified: 05/29/12 06:45:53 AMCommentary: The Ku Klux Klan says it is not a “hate group.” Though it only wants white people at a Saturday event.
Modified: 05/24/12 12:06:29 PMSaunders: The recent deaths of Donna Summer, Robin Gibb, Chuck Brown and Belita Woods make us reminisce about some great ’70s music.
Modified: 05/22/12 04:58:35 AMCommentary: No, it won’t have the same historical resonance as Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat. Nor is it likely to make anyone forget Patrick Henry’s eloquent-if-hypocritical “Give me liberty or give me death” oration.
Modified: 05/21/12 07:58:23 AMTwo former aides to the House speaker get special parting gifts after resigning because of inappropriate relationships.
Modified: 05/17/12 05:18:54 PMCommentary: If those voters who resoundingly supported last week’s amendment to define marriage thought that it would rid North Carolina of gay people, guess again.
Modified: 05/15/12 03:53:03 AMCommentary: Officials in the county damaged by Hurricane Irene are set to get rebuilding help from a nonprofit group. But money needs to be raised for supplies.
Modified: 05/14/12 03:32:58 AMEven those who didn’t have a stake in the gay marriage issue on Election Day should worry that moralists may set their sights on other issues.
Modified: 05/11/12 12:26:34 AMFurther schooling is apparently needed to teach some of you that neither political party has a monopoly on virtue or vice, that liberals are no more libidinous than conservatives, that infidelitous Democrats are as plentiful as home-wrecking Republicans.
Modified: 05/08/12 05:37:43 AMHave you ever wished that God were a big ol’ black dude? I do, too – usually on Sundays around 2 p.m.
Modified: 05/07/12 11:37:17 AMCheri Young testified that she went along with the scheme because she “didn’t want to be responsible for blowing up the campaign.” She should have.
Modified: 05/03/12 02:54:56 PMThe former Democratic senator and presidential hopeful already is paying the price for his indiscretion – being held up to ridicule and scorn.
Modified: 05/01/12 06:10:28 AMFrisking a 4-year-old may seem extreme, but terrorists will exploit any gap.
Modified: 04/30/12 08:27:22 AM
Commentary: The former N.C. Central University chancellor, who died this week, ranks with John Hope Franklin and Bill Friday as those who made the world better.
Modified: 04/26/12 06:30:13 AMI could probably whip the big kid, Alonzo “Big Mac” Lunsford, now – taking him to the hoop without worrying about him knocking the basketball down my throat the way he used to – but I wouldn’t take any satisfaction from it and people would conclude that I’m a jerk.
Modified: 04/24/12 07:27:11 AMIn the immortal words of the late movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, “Gentlemen, include me out.”
Modified: 04/22/12 11:47:00 PMAdmit it — even though presidential candidates can tie up traffic and crowd restaurants, we North Carolinians appreciate the attention.
Modified: 04/19/12 06:56:11 AMCommentary: The resignation of the N.C. Democratic Party’s executive director amid a sexual harassment claim could be like Christmas for Republicans unless all the details are released.
Modified: 04/17/12 12:26:10 AMCommentary: Chad Ray was awed by the moment. Who wouldn’t be, a small farmer from North Carolina sitting next to a big-shot IBM executive in, of all places, the White House.
Modified: 04/16/12 06:34:23 AMSaunders: As executive director of the Sales & Service Training Center in Durham, Karen Mortimer’s job – naw, her “mission” – is supposed to be preparing people for jobs and helping them find one.
Modified: 04/12/12 07:20:29 AM
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