As I mentioned last night , my first My View column for the News & Observer’s community edition, The Durham News, hits driveways today — ” Fighting pet prejudice ” is now online and is front-paged in the print edition. Apologies — there’s no comment section, but my email addy is there, so maybe local readers will send me feedback. For Bull City residents coming over to the Blend for the first time, welcome . It’s a friendly virtual coffeeshop here (most of the time, anyway!). S