Any article that promises tips on how to trim a household budget gets my attention. Self-employed and married to someone who retired early, I’m highly motivated to keep our expenses low. But invariably I come away from those financial advice columns disappointed – whatever they suggest, I’ve already done. At this point, there’s very little […]

An item near the end of the agenda for the April 25 Town Council meeting announced the beginning of the selection process for appointing members to various town committees. But a vote earlier in the evening may have left some prospective committee members wondering, Why bother? Midway through the meeting, the council reconsidered its previous […]

At the WCHL community forum on “Local Media Ecosystems – Objectivity, Bias, Access,” aired last Thursday, panelists included two bloggers but only one newspaper editor. Carrboro Citizen editor Kirk Ross was the sole representative of print journalism. (The next day, The Citizen announced that Ross would be succeeded as editor by Susan Dickson, the publisher’s […]