Here's a look at Sunday's front page:
PROFILING?: Paul Cuadros' book "A Home on the Field," about his coaching a Latino soccer team to statewide success, just got picked as the first-year students' reading assignment at UNC. So why is he still getting stopped by law enforcement in Chatham County? Read his My View column for a personal take on local immigration enforcement efforts.
WASTE MATTERS: Staff writer Jesse James DeConto traveled with the new Orange County commissioners this week to the Greensboro solid waste transfer station to get a sense of what might be coming to Orange County. Read what he saw, and smelled, in his report.
ANOOP WATCH: "American Idol" may be calculated. But once in a while the emotions connect and I find myself tearing up at a contestant's exit. (It helps that they play songs with killer hooks when contestants leave.) This week we begin an "Anoop Desai Watch," as we track Chapel Hill's Anoop Desai's journey on America's No. 1 show.
MAKE 'EM LAUGH: I'm probably going to hit that dance concert in Durham night, but that still give sme plenty of opportunities to catch the 2009 N.C. Comedy Arts Festival. Read Dave Hart's story on the laugh fest taking place at DSI Comedy Thater, the ArtsCenter and Cat's Cradle through Feb. 22.
Staff writer Eric Ferreri tells you where you can see Albert Einstein's autograph, Laurie Paolicelli says why Chapel Hill and Orange Conty are still cool, even if they have to work at it, and Elliott Warnock -- the state's No. 1 sports columnist for community papers with over 10,000 circulation, brings you the latest in sports (in fact he's working right now across the aisle from me.) Oh, and Sharon Swanson tells you how you can catch lunch with Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler and best-selling author John Grisham.
Enjoy the weekend, and thanks for reading,
Mark
