All Posts Tagged With: "Charlotte Observer"
Kays Gary on Dorothy Counts: Between MLK and Obama
There weren’t many of us who witnessed the Arkansas National Guard facing down school children, to prevent school integration in Little Rock, who would have imagined we would see an African American president in our lifetime.
19Jan2009 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
On Jim Schutze, incompetence trumping party lines, and race and racialization
One of the things I love about doing this blog is sitting here in my little corner of Vermont, poking around the net and finding terrific writers and their writing…
24Jul2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Bureaucrats and Billboards
I was still living in North Carolina and under the age of majority when one evening at dinner Dad waxed eloquent and enthusiastic after meeting Vermont’s Governor Phil Hoff, and also about what had just happened in Vermont. The event of note was the ban of billboards in Vermont, preserving open scenic views along Vermont’s [...]
7May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
More in the Kays Gary Library
I got another of Dad’s old columns from The Charlotte Observer posted over the weekend, and have a couple more picked out to transcribe and upload this evening. These are straight off the old, crinkly yellow newsprint. Check them out as time and inclination dictate. Peace. Deborah Gary Alicen
11Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Kays Gary Columns Available Here
A couple of weeks ago, when I wrote a post about the PBS program on Sargent Shriver, I made reference to my Dad, the late Charlotte Observer columnist Kays Gary, and went looking online for some of his writing to link to. I didn’t find much, which was a little bit of a surprise since [...]
4Feb2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Victory in Charlotte-Mecklenburg–No Private Prison!
The main campaign team (Pam Pompey, Les Schmidt and myself) will be meeting first thing next week to talk about next steps for keeping for-profit private prisons out of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County permanently, and for achieving significant reform in the County’s prison and criminal justice systems.
11Jan2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
