Here's a look at tomorrow's front page: (NOTE: The Wednesday paper went to press Monday night, too early to get in the Town Council's meeting.)
FREEDOM RIDERS: I hope local schools teach about Chapel Hill's role in the civil rights movement. This weekend the town gets a historic marker to help us remember the "First Freedom Ride," also known as the Journey of Reconciliation, in 1947. Find out how the town plans to mark the occasion.
PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTOR: Ever wonder about those guys in drak glasses? Arnie Lau served five U.S. presidents while in the Secret Service. Today he lives in Carolina Meadows, one of those fascinating types we'd write about more often if we just knew more of them. Read Rita Borden's interview.
STIMULUS PLAN: Congressman David Price voted for the $787 billion stimulus plan last week. Tonight you can hear preisdent Obama say why that was a good thing. Tomorrow, in an interview with Van Denton, you can read why Price thinks so too.
'THE RISKIEST THING': Lynden Harris' My View columns read like short stories, the kind you'd find in a Best of the South collection (and I just checked out a 2008 collection Sunday at the library -- gotta say, it felt weird when they shut the lights at 5 p.m. under the new budget cuts). Read Harris' take on that other recession and the challenges economic hardship present us.
Mary Sonis has another of her "Crittercam" photos for our Best Shot feature (man, she's good), Dave Hart brings you this week's Roses and Raspberries, and Nerys Levy tells you why you should consider pulling up a chair at this weekend's Community Dinner.
I'm also hoping we can reprint some of the recent blog excerpts in Sunday's paper because there have been a lot of good, thoughtful ones. Of course, we'll need pages to do that, and we'll need avertising to get the pages. Still, we're here, we appreciate it, and as always ...
thanks for reading,
Mark
