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Chapel Hill's Just Trying to Keep Up With Its Neighbor

Chapel Hill's getting some national attention for electing a gay mayor last night. Good for Chapel Hill! But this sort of thing isn't that unusual in that part of North Carolina. After all, a couple years ago, Carrboro, the town that borders Chapel Hill to the west, had a gay mayor and a lesbian police chief.

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