May 16, 2012
Our county manager has presented another budget that continues to gut funding for arts, trails, greenways and open space programs in Guilford County. This is small potatoes in a budget of more than $500 million. As a resident of a city, I pay for my own p...
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I was not surprised that 61 percent of North Carolina voters decided to enshrine discrimination into their state’s constitution. I suspect that discrimination is embedded in the North Carolinian DNA. However, I was appalled that Patrick Wooden Sr. s...
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If you think your voice and your vote don’t matter, think again.May 8’s vote to approve Amendment One was a wake-up call: Less than 14 percent of North Carolinians made up the “majority” that wrote discrimination into our state con...
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I want to thank North Carolina for passing Amendment One. All we did was to reinforce the stereotype of Southern ignorance and intolerance. If family values are at the heart of the passage, then you need to take a good look at the divorce rate in this sta...
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Timing is everything. Obama waited until the presidential election was near before giving his OK to same-sex marriage. He’s trying to get votes. That doesn’t make him deserving of them. It’s only a tiny, yet I agree, important issue, in...
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May 15, 2012
The president supports gay marriage. The president would require people to refute their own religion by supplying contraceptive devices on demand. The president won’t let go of the fiasco in Afghanistan even though there is no longer any vital Ameri...
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As a born and bred North Carolinian, I have never been more proud of my state than I was on May 8. We showed we have avoided the morass of political correctness and have joined the progressive states that have the strong values and principles that will le...
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Congratulations, North Carolina, on the passage of Amendment One.
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I was saddened by the final paragraph in Kathleen Parker’s (May 9) article on obesity. How will we ever learn to eat healthfully if it is portrayed as “ruining your life”? I come from a family of “genetically” inclined obese...
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Some people are demanding that May 8’s election result concerning Amendment One be thrown out. I note that most of the protesters appeared to be college students. What are they teaching in the colleges now?
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May 14, 2012
A CounterpointBy Krishna BaluThe articles written by Rosemary Roberts about India (April 13, 20 and 27) provide a biased view. Although there is some truth in the statements regarding poverty, corruption and overpopulation, there are many discrepancies in...
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A Counterpoint By W.E. HeasleyAn item that seems obscured in the entire noise ordinance debate is the progression of events in downtown Greensboro. If memory serves, downtown Greensboro was “dying,” and hence the death of downtown s...
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May 13, 2012
I enjoy science and all the benefits that accrue from the things scientists have learned that technicians have used to enhance living on this planet.
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The latest campaign gimmick from President Obama is a composite female named Julia who is subsidized at all phases of her life by government programs created or promoted by Obama. Julia is introduced to government handout programs via the Headstart progra...
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The recent crackdown on Medicaid fraud shows there is major corruption in the entitlement programs designed to help those who truly need this assistance. If you investigated all the other federal programs designed to help those who really need them, there...
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