Archive for December 2013
Top Ten Reasons Why Criminal District Court is like a Third-World Country*
It is populated primary by poor people. It is often crowded and hot. It is chronically underfunded. It is dominated by a heavy bureaucracy. Its borders are heavily guarded by armed paramilitary and all who enter are subject to search. It is regulated by rules that are badly understood by many of its citizens. It…
Read MoreThe Undocumented Citizen
A few months ago, I attended a gathering of attorneys active in the LGBT community. Across dinner and after libations, the talk turned, as it often does, to work – discussions of our cases and the thorny problems that often await the lawyer serving the LGBT community. A colleague began to recount the history of…
Read MoreNelson Mandela is dead.
South Africa’s beaming example of the potential of humankind has departed the world. But his legacy remains in the simple text of South Africa’s Bill of Rights. Almost fifty years after apartheid’s dark stain began and some eighteen years before Amendment One sullied North Carolina’s landscape, the South African nation drafted one of the most…
Read MoreMeredith Nicholson Runs Gallop & Gorge 8K
On Thanksgiving morning, November 28th 2013, Meredith Nicholson participated in the Gallop & Gorge 8k as the final event of the 3-race Le Tour de Carrboro race series, sponsored by Cardinal Track Club. For the race, people were asked to donate to the IFC Food Pantry. The IFC relies on donations from individuals and helps provide groceries…
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