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Now is a great time to buy a home

Many in the Triangle can still smile knowing that our area has something to cheer about despite the recent report from the National Association of Realtors released last week about home sales plung...

How to avoid assisted living

Guest Column: 

After puberty, adolescence, maturity, mid-life crisis, seniority, Medicare and Social Security, the next step is "safer environment," a sneaky phrase that really means "assisted living."

Festival touts our diversity

Midtown Muse: 

It's been called our "public living room."

After 40 years, a personal relic rediscovered

Wonder and Weirdness: 

The old Swiss Army rucksack caught Ronald Bobeck's eye, sticking out of the flea market clutter like a childhood friend spotted in a ballgame crowd.

Watch out for pesky gloomy scale

Green Living: 

I love trees. It lowers my blood pressure just knowing they are absorbing carbon dioxide and replenishing the atmosphere with oxygen. And I love their beauty and color, the privacy they provide, an...

Blundering partisans

Letter: 

I reviewed the Assignment Zone Samples posted by the Wake County Board of Education. These samples force-fit schools into arbitrary zones that enhance segregation.

Raleigh teen has trip of a lifetime

Who's Got Game?: 

Sandwiched between the moment Kelly Whalen dipped a bicycle wheel into the Atlantic Ocean in Georgia and when she dipped her whole body into the Pacific Ocean in California was a six-week smorgasbo...

Learning lessons from a classic

Midtown Muse: 

Two Midtown mainstays - the Cameron Village Library and the Burning Coal Theatre Company - are poised for a month of community conversation and exploration.

Playing make-believe is harder than it used to be

Mom 2 Mom: 

I tried hard not to groan aloud when my 8-year-old daughter asked me to play her current favorite game of fairies with her while we were swimming last week.

Learning to love karaoke

Wonder and Weirdness: 

Most karaoke bars make me want to rip off my ears.

Not my NAACP

Letter: 

What happened to the NAACP? Where is the organization that had my back when my siblings and I integrated an elementary school in Chester, S.C.?

Crossing consequences

Letter: 

Amid all the public meetings and barrels of ink accompanying the dialogue over the high-speed rail corridor, am I the only one who is left grasping for an answer to the mystery of what happened to ...

Nearby family a blessing

Mom 2 Mom: 

Earlier this summer, I found myself standing in my living room holding my cell phone and trying to stay calm. My husband had just fallen 12 feet from a ladder through a ceramic table and now had a ...

A yard does say a lot

Letter: 

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU for writing this article. What a person's yard says about them could be any of the following: caring, hard working, appreciative, respectable, clueless, slob, lazy, ...

Look for life, not tall grass

Letter: 

Your first "newcomer" column could use more than the good trim and some edging that my lawn needs.

Please slow down in school zones

PEOPLE!! IT'S A SCHOOL ZONE!! SLOW DOWN!! Have I caught your attention? Good. Please read the rest. Pass it on to all your household's drivers when you've finished.

I hear you: Yards don't tell full story

Boy, did I touch a nerve.

Appearances aren't everything

Letter: 

I'm a longtime resident of Raleigh. My family and I have lived here for 32 years, and we're well-settled in.

Let's muse about Midtown together

Midtown Muse: 

Welcome to this space.

What does your yard say about you?

Newcomer: 

I'm a newcomer. My career brought me and my family here, and now we must settle in.