Almost inadvertently, the Durham Public Schools Board of Education has initiated a critically important conversation.
Durham City Council member Eugene Brown is exactly right in the reservations he expressed last week over the Durham Crime Cabinet’s call for allocating local dollars to speed up state crime lab work for the city.
Like many urban areas, Durham is no stranger to gun violence. Already in this young year, we’ve seen two lives cut short by firearms
OK, all you Durham foodies out there – and we know there are a lot of you.
Here’s a chance to help win yet another accolade for one of the country’s premier food havens – our own Bull City.
There may once have been a time when we did not need to worry much if many students failed to finish high school. A robust manufacturing economy – or a substantial agriculture sector – could for much of the past century provide a decent-paying job to someone who never tossed a tassel at a high-school graduation ceremony.
The conciliatory messages coming from Durham Public Schools these days about charter schools are welcome.
It is difficult to argue with the University of North Carolina system’s ambitious goals to raise the percentage of North Carolinians who have at least a four-year college or university degree.
The candidates for the Durham City Council vacancy had strong opinions on the 751 South project and its potential effects on creating jobs that would help to reduce the number of local people living in poverty.
Whatever it is in human nature that causes people to plan new year’s resolutions, that impulse seems to be most present in those who desire to get healthier and lose weight.
North Carolina’s incoming governor told business leaders last week that he intends to work to reform taxes for the state. What that means, and how that might be accomplished, remains to be seen.
This Friday’s Entertainment and More section showcases the wealth of fantastic arts events that we have coming up this spring. Information on entertainment events can be found at http://www.heraldsun.com/lifestyles/entertainment as well.
We are justifiably proud around here about our diverse and excellent cuisine. Durham must have the greatest collection of restaurants of all types and price level of any city its size – and if any out-of-towners disagree, we’d offer to go head-to-head with any municipalities who offer a challenge.
Most of us hop into cars or get behind the wheel without a second thought. Some people drive or ride their entire lives without incident.
The news media run the risk of not only making too much of criminal incidents, but also of failing to place them in the proper context.
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is about to leave office. In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, she reflected on her four years in the governor’s mansion, with the most prominent talking points emerging centered on her not regretting her decision not to run for re-election, and that she leaves the state better than she found it.