Chansky’s Notebook: Save the Dean Dome!
Though no announcement has been made, it sure looks like UNC chancellor Lee Roberts is leaning toward building an off-campus basketball arena.
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Daily and Weekly Features
Exploring Your Creative Genius: Fierce Cynicism, Radical Naïveté
I was considering writing a book that would take on the ambitiously important challenge of offering political and community leadership new ways to serve us, a book acknowledging that current political language has been so weaponized as to be useless.
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Chansky’s Notebook: The Dean Dome’s Greatest Games
Art Chansky remembers some of UNC’s greatest games ever played in the Dean Smith Center, which opened in 1986.
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Chansky’s Notebook: The Dean Dome’s Foundations
UNC has won 499 games at the Smith Center since it opened on January 18, 1986. Art Chansky digs into the arena’s origins.
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Chansky’s Notebook: Looking for the Right Places
After transferring away from UNC, Tyler Nickel, Jalen Washington and Cade Tyson are having the best years of their careers.
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On the Porch: Walt McRee – Public Banking Solutions
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Walt McRee has held leadership roles with PBI and the public banking movement since its earliest years. In addition to serving as Chair and President (2015-2017), Board Director, and Senior Advisor, Walt has been centrally involved as co-founder and director of other public banking initiatives including the Pennsylvania Project and Banking On New Jersey. Following an extensive national media career, Walt created, produced and co-hosted radio and TV programs for public banking including, “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on the Progressive Radio Network as well as “Public Bank Solution” TV series. Following his initial period as PBI Chair, Walt founded Public Banking Associates, a national consultancy of public banking experts helping legislators and policy professionals address creation of their own public banks. Walt has also held founding leadership positions in other public interest issues including world hunger, the environment, public broadcasting and the arts. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Geography from Valparaiso University.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Good Dog(s)
Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 143...
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Chansky’s Notebook: Here We Go!
The ACC fun begins tonight and is set up just right for UNC, with a home date against Florida State tipping off at 7 p.m.
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Chansky’s Notebook: Quarterback Eras
Drake Maye, the former superstar at UNC and current MVP candidate in the NFL, has some striking similarities to a certain former Patriot QB.
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On the Porch: Karen Howard – The Mason House
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Elected as a Chatham County Commissioner in 2014, Karen Howard is a former attorney who lives in Northeast Chatham in a two-story Greek Revival house built in 1850 called the John A. Mason House. Commissioner Howard served as a member of the Chatham County Board of Education from 2012-2014. Born in New York, Commissioner Howard spent much of her childhood in the Bahamas. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University and a LLB in Law from the University of Buckingham in England. In addition to serving as Chair of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization, Commissioner Howard serves on the Governor’s Crime Commission, and the Central Carolina Community College Board of Trustees.
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