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Dan Holly::When I took this job, one of the pieces of advice I got was to write about my children no more than twice a year. It seems many of my colleagues felt that columnists tend to think their children are cuter and funnier than they actually are. (Imagine that!

Dan Holly::Response to my recent column asking for feedback has not been overwhelming, but it has been enlightening. I'd like to share some of them with you, to stimulate thought and perhaps more feedback. We really do want to know what you think.

Dan Holly::Homes and shopping centers seem to sprout up overnight around here, so why is it taking so long to fix Creedmoor Road? I'm talking specifically about an intersection north of the Outer Loop where Creedmoor meets Shooting Club and Nipper roads. It

Dan Holly::Do you read the little feature at the top of page 3N called "Stop & Go?" Do you like it? If you don't, do you have any ideas for how that space can be better used? This is the type of feedback we're seeking as we prepare for a top-

Dan Holly::To the caller who complained about our last man-on-the-street interview feature, I say: I was just as surprised as you were. Respondents were overwhelmingly in favor of gay marriages -- four of five surveyed supported it. I, too, expected a survey on gay

Dan Holly::When I heard that the library Progress Energy wants to build downtown might delay the three new libraries proposed for northern Wake, something didn't seem right. Hold on, didn't we just go through a referendum in which the people spoke, and did

Dan Holly::Last weekend, when my car was being serviced and I had a couple of hours to kill, I went to a coffee shop off of Capital Boulevard that I had noticed a while back. But the coffee shop had closed. I was disappointed, and curious -- it seemed like a pretty

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Dan Holly::The strongest reaction to last week's North Raleigh News was to a little item in the back of the section in the Police Report -- a burglary in which thousands of dollars worth of jewelry were stolen. A caller accused us of being "sensational

Dan Holly::North Raleigh residents have a couple of opportunities next week to get out of the house for events sure to be more enriching than another night of TV watching. The Raleigh Police Department's District 21 will hold a community meeting on Wednesday to

Dan Holly::I've been riding the bus this week because my car is in the shop, so I could say I've been learning how the other half lives. But that would be an exaggeration -- it's more like the other tenth. In a survey last year by a consulting firm hi

Dan Holly::There's an old saying: Lead, follow or get out of the way. Knightdale resident Cheryl Colby is leading, and I for one would like to see a lot of people follow her. To cut to the chase, she has organized a clean-up of the Little River this Saturday an

Dan Holly::Those of you who read this column regularly (and there are at least three of you) know that the North Raleigh News has a problem for which we've been seeking help: how to fill this page on the fifth Friday of the month. For the first four Fridays, we

Dan Holly::How would you answer the question, "So, what's North Raleigh like?" I've been thinking about this lately because we've had some out-of-towners passing through. I've always seen North Raleigh as a quiet bedroom community, a la