What ever happened to caring for our own kids and delighting in teaching them and seeing them learn? Now comes a proposal out of Chapel Hill to put 3-year-olds in public school. That’s right — experts now want North Carolinians to hand over their toddlers to the public school system, along with what remains of the parents’ responsibility for their child. It’s yet another excuse to cede the education — and the raising — of kids to a one-size-fits-all system that can’t possibly provide what 3-year-olds need most: their parents.
Read full article » No Comments »The Town of Chapel Hill’s requirement that three feet of soil be removed from part of a site where the Chipotle restaurant chain wants to put a restaurant not only is absurd, it’s also very expensive. Does the town seriously think that whatever traces of dry-cleaning solvents that may have been found in the soil will find their way into burritos and tacos at the restaurant? Did it harm the patrons of the video store or the college textbook store that was there before? Has the groundwater been adversely affected in the years since the One-Hour Koretizing story was on the site? I’ve heard of no illnesses or genetic mutating going on at the intersection of Franklin and Mallette.
Read full article » 1 Comment »First it was Oxford, NC, then somewhere in Maine, then Lynch Station, VA. Now it look like Founders College, the brainchild of Duke professor Gary Hull, is looking at South Boston, VA. It wants to buy Berry Hill Plantation on the Dan River, a resort and conference center near South Boston. Stay tuned.
Read full article » No Comments »Reading the police reports in Durham every day, it strikes me that we’d all be better off if this happened more often here. Criminals need to learn there’s a cost to crime. And I don’t mean the “cost” of going to trial before a spineless jury two years after the crime or making a deal with a DA who can’t win an actual trial.
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