| 11/4/2005 | The coming depopulation of Charlotte's schools
Timothy Egan caused a stir with his recent profile of Portland in the “New York Times.” Portland, you may know, is a city that Charlotte’s leaders have ...
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| 11/1/2005 | Voices That Carry
There is something special about the human voice. I discovered that truth again when I began collecting many of the interviews I have done over the years into ...
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| 8/17/2005 | Casting out fear
I have a friend who is a successful Charlotte businessman, and he recently won an award for his business success. It had been a while since I had spoken to ...
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| 8/4/2005 | Above the timberline
At 12,526 feet, Little Costilla Peak is not the tallest mountain in the Southern Rockies. But it is one of the most remote and least climbed.
The main ...
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| 6/28/2005 | SCOTUS Watch
Isn’t that usually the way it works? A highly technical decision that everyone says won’t matter much ends up changing everything.
That’s what happened on ...
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| 6/13/2005 | How things got so bad, and what to do about it
Like many people in this “wired” era, I’m on a number of e-mail lists and list-servs. One of them is populated by editors and publishers of other Christian ...
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| 5/30/2005 | Is Charlotte becoming the “San Francisco of the South”?
On the evening of May 17, just after 11 p.m. and several hours of debate, Mecklenburg’s Board of County Commissioners voted to add sexual orientation to the ...
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| 5/4/2005 | Deep Enough For Ivorybills
When I got news this week that scientists in Arkansas had seen an ivory-billed woodpecker thought to be extinct, a rush of memories came back, and they had ...
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| 4/13/2005 | The war against the family
Gasoline prices are now well over $2 per gallon. Conversations about drilling for fossil fuels in Alaska have started showing up again in the media. Here in ...
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| 4/4/2005 | Anti-lottery activism needed now
On March 28, North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black appointed a committee with a simple task: present to him a piece of lottery legislation that can get ...
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