Gary Gaddy
A chronological archive of Gary Gaddy’s newspaper columns featuring humor, cultural commentary, politics, sports, and reflections on life in Chapel Hill and beyond.
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Calculations in Katrina’s Aftermath
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS major parts of America have been ripped apart by high winds and inundated by a flood filled with a noxious brew of stinking pollution —… Read more ⇢
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Get On Board with Fire-Anson-Dorrance.com
Now that a new season has begun many would say it's too late, but with an abysmal 4 and 1 record and one preseason poll picking them to finish 6th… Read more ⇢
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Light Rail: A Great Idea Whose Time Has Passed
Light rail is a great idea. This is just the wrong place and the wrong time for it. What will be light about light rail? The loads its cars will… Read more ⇢
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Can UNC Football be as Big as Basketball?
As we come to the end of football season, and to the beginning of basketball season, again the question is raised: Can football be as big as basketball at Carolina?… Read more ⇢
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Wasting Away in Krzyzewskiville
The Robertson Scholars Program was such a good idea that there was no reason to expect that it would ever work. The Robertsons are idealists. They thought they could bridge… Read more ⇢
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How Does Wake’s Football Team Win?
I hate to be the one to jerk the glass slipper off Cinderella — but, since no one else seems willing to, I will. I could dance delicately around the… Read more ⇢
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Smith’s Records Knight Won’t Break
Much has been made lately of Bobby Knight's passing Dean Smith for the greatest number of wins in a men's NCAA basketball coaching career; so much that I'm afraid it's… Read more ⇢
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Working Together Against Mental Illness
Among the most insidious of evils of this life are illness and disease, especially the brain disorders commonly called mental illness. Besides the toll they can take on a life,… Read more ⇢
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Crazy: America’s Mental Health Madness
Sometimes the journalist comes to the story; sometimes the story comes to the journalist. This time the story came to Pete Earley, and it wasn't pretty. "Crazy" is one of… Read more ⇢
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How Everybody Wins: They Cheat!
Having exposed the Wake Forest University Demon Deacon football team for what they are (liars, cheats and thieves), I am now embroiled in further controversy. The vast unwashed masses which… Read more ⇢
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