Comment: Transit planners know that as a fact of life, what it really takes to get more people to ride the bus is ... more buses. A bus service upgrade in Wake County, linked to the rest of the Triangle, would stand to accelerate ridership trends that already are positive.
Modified: 05/18/12 03:08:01 PMI’m hard-pressed to see what’s so radical about gay people wishing to have the right to enter into a government-sanctioned partnership with someone who happens to be of the same gender.
Modified: 05/13/12 04:59:22 AMComment: For the 30 years and counting that my family and I have lived in North Carolina, we’ve been assigned to the 4th Congressional District. But this year, after the big redistricting shake-up, surprise! Who would have thunk it, but we’re being shifted into the 13th. So after the election in November, it’s practically a mortal lock that our new representative in Congress will be one of the two very conservative Republicans now engaged in their farcical efforts to paint each other as wussy liberals.
Modified: 05/04/12 07:04:56 PMComment: The caller, a Cary subscriber whose name I couldn’t catch despite repeated tries, spat out her words as if something vile were on her tongue. “I just want to say how utterly, utterly disgusting the editorial page was this week like it has been so many times before,” she told me in her voice mail message. “This Amendment One, there wasn’t one letter for it, and you talk about trying to be fair and balanced. I don’t think you have a clue.”
Modified: 04/27/12 06:34:52 PMComment: If a community is to function as a healthy whole, it can’t afford to let some parts be treated as if the well-being of people living there didn’t really matter. And nothing screams “We don’t give a damn about y’all!” than tolerating subpar schools where students miss out on opportunities they deserve.
Modified: 04/21/12 08:42:27 PMThey were by no means the last Northerners to arrive at what tourism promoters have since merrily dubbed the Crystal Coast. But instead of coolers, fishing gear and boogie boards, these folks lugged artillery. And once they got there, they planned to stay awhile.
Modified: 04/15/12 03:29:16 AMFord: The Sixties – groovy, man. Summer of Love. Flowers in your hair. Sitting on the dock of the bay. Oh, death and destruction. The nation's civic rhythm during those years seemed to go something like this: Assassination. Riots. More riots. Assassination. More riots. Assassination. All against the backdrop of a grinding, ill-fated war.
Modified: 04/06/12 08:04:00 PMVietnam was different. We ought to be able to agree on that much – even if the war’s history still roils emotions and leaves us wondering how we could have gotten things so wrong.
Modified: 03/30/12 06:24:26 PMPOINT OF VIEW: Republicans who control the Wake County Board of Commissioners are adamantly against voter fraud, as they signaled last week in approving a voter ID resolution brought by chairman and congressional candidate Paul Coble. Next, perhaps, they’ll come out against ticks, copperheads and poison ivy.
Modified: 03/25/12 11:05:11 AMFord: Well, they’ve been saying North Carolina will be an election battleground. Here comes one army on the march – the NAACP, which has picked Raleigh to hold a big conference this week focused on voting rights. The event, at the Convention Center, will convene NAACP leaders from seven southern states to address what the outspoken North Carolina chapter president, the Rev. William Barber, insists is a widespread push to “steal, suppress and segregate the African-American and minority vote.”
Modified: 03/17/12 09:51:34 PMFord: Political campaigns are expensive, and not only because big-time candidates rely so much on air travel and employ large staffs and might even feel the need to indulge in a fancy haircut.
Modified: 03/09/12 05:54:52 PMFord: What a coincidence that Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis and Democratic ex-Speaker Jim Black, whose misdeeds landed him in the clink, are both from Mecklenburg County.
Modified: 03/04/12 04:12:17 AMFord: When Rick Santorum took out after President Obama's "phony theology," he tried to marginalize Obama as one of those "radical environmentalists," as he called them.
Modified: 02/24/12 06:06:40 PMFord: If any eastern North Carolina commercial real estate brokers haven't yet gotten the message, perhaps they should have their licenses yanked for dozing on duty.
Modified: 02/17/12 06:40:41 PMFord: The man in charge of trying to keep Raleigh growing in a way that makes sense, economically and environmentally - that would be the city's planning director, Mitchell Silver - has been even busier than usual.
Modified: 02/03/12 06:55:38 PMFord: When you think about all the twists and turns until Americans choose their next president and North Carolinians choose their next governor, what's abundantly clear is that clarity is hard to come by.
Modified: 01/27/12 06:30:04 PMFord: What appears to have been the desecration of the bodies of dead Afghans by U.S.
Modified: 01/13/12 05:03:46 PMFord: You won't find the Viaduct Building by looking for a viaduct.
Modified: 01/07/12 02:56:11 PMFord: The view below was of a river, its current discernible at the sun-glinting rapids upstream to the left. Across was forest, a lattice of light and shade, limbs bared to winter, colors of dark green pine and silvery-trunked sycamore. Beyond - a ridge. Sky.
Modified: 12/30/11 04:15:18 PMFord: Some familiar language from this time of year offers this agreeable notion: "... and on earth peace, good will toward men." Christmas wish, or Christmas promise? Either way, it seems like it ought to be easy enough to get with the program.
Modified: 12/25/11 04:01:34 AM
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