Triangle area cities and towns should stop making excuses and standing in the way of innovative ideas and progress.
Modified: 02/08/12 02:47:53 PMI nearly burst a lung reading a column about the Duke-Carolina game Feb. 8 even though I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. And I grew up in Eastern North Carolina, land of the golden leaf.
Modified: 02/08/12 02:47:53 PMRegarding the plea for higher tuition by the chair of the Board of Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill ("A vital increase in UNC's tuition," Feb. 5 Point of View), there seems to be an automatic assumption that increased revenues are the primary, and possibly only, means by which UNC-CH can maintain its quality.
Modified: 02/09/12 04:28:44 AMMy jaw is still on the floor after reading the Feb. 6 article "Burr defends 'no' on insider trading act" about Sen. Richard Burr's vote.
Modified: 02/08/12 02:47:52 PMIn his Feb. 5 Point of View article ("A vital increase in UNC's tuition"), UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees chair Wade H. Hargrove makes a compelling case as to the need for reinstating the funding cuts that have ravaged the UNC system, particularly the UNC-CH campus, in the past several years.
Modified: 02/09/12 04:29:44 AMThe never-ending hysteria (an 8 percent increase in tuition is labeled a "skyrocketing" cost) over education funding in this state obscures the two main issues.
Modified: 02/08/12 01:32:57 PMThe Obama administration takes credit for 243,000 new jobs and a decrease in the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent. Then The N&O touts this drop on its Feb. 7 editorial page.
Modified: 02/08/12 02:47:52 PMTo quote from your Feb. 3 editorial "Whoa, HOA": "No homeowners association should have the power of foreclosure, end of story, period." You surely must have years of experience with HOAs after such a definitive statement.
Modified: 02/07/12 06:46:04 PMIt is worrisome about the government expanding passive electronic tracking of the populace ("Tolls proposed for I-95," Feb. 5). It started with the recent use of toll scanners on the Triangle Expressway and is now proposed for I-95.
Modified: 02/07/12 06:46:02 PMHow low will we go in this global race to the bottom before we realize that workers' buying power is central to the economy? Sen. Kay Hagan's bill to exclude more technology workers (Feb. 5 article) from overtime pay is exactly the opposite of what we need in this economy.
Modified: 02/08/12 04:33:58 AMIn the 1940s the Soviet Union worked to develop an atomic bomb. Some in the U.S. demanded that we launch a pre-emptive strike to prevent the horrible event.
Modified: 02/07/12 06:46:02 PMAs a graduate of Miami University, founded in 1809, I get tired of seeing the university referred to in the sports pages as Miami of Ohio. It is Miami University or MU.
Modified: 02/07/12 06:46:04 PMYour Feb. 4 editorial "Tighten up" cited performance issues over the last two years at some of Progress Energy's nuclear power plants.
Modified: 02/07/12 06:46:05 PMRegarding your Feb. 3 editorial "School rivals": Research Triangle High School (RTHS), a proposed charter school awaiting approval in March, has been dismayed by the public misunderstandings of its plans.
Modified: 02/07/12 06:46:03 PMThis is in response to the ridiculous idea of making the day after the Super Bowl a holiday (article, Feb. 6). So there should be a holiday just because people want to stay up late, get drunk and watch some game?
Modified: 02/06/12 07:21:01 PMRegarding "A rallying cry for post-Bowl holiday" (Feb. 6 front-page): I was in the work force for over 30 years. I attended many concerts, sports events and even a few bowl games. Yes, I did party at most events.
Modified: 02/06/12 07:21:03 PMThe Feb. 4 article "House slams ACLU's position on prayers" states that N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis and Majority Leader Paul Stam believe the ACLU is "radical" and "is out of touch with the concerns of North Carolina residents."
Modified: 02/06/12 07:21:02 PM
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