Viewpoints

Since 1992, I have been a Biology professor at UNC and the leader of a research lab funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  This semester I am teaching a course called Cancer Biology to 28 juniors and seniors. 

We need to face the fact that the future health of Orange County’s fresh water resources is threatened by the amount of development that takes place under current development policies and practices. The more development – the more harm to our freshwater resources.

Every year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day gives us the chance to honor the life and legacy of a remarkable leader. Dr. King was a visionary who held up a mirror to our country and showed us our flaws and our potential.

In a world that seems to grow more dangerous by the day, the United States cannot afford to appoint such unfit people to such critical positions. Please vote against approval of each of them.

News of Gaza has largely faded from major US media, but unfortunately not because things have gotten better in the besieged territory. Gaza has been turned essentially into a sea of rubble.

It’s no secret: public schools are struggling. We are now well into the school year, and schools have been hit hard. The latest hit to our schools comes in the form of HB 10, a bill that just became law over Governor Cooper’s veto.

Election Day marked 17 years for me at Public Policy Polling. And for most of those 17 years I wondered how I would handle it if there was ever a Presidential year that clearly wasn’t going to end well.

In North Carolina, the abortion ban that was passed last year represents just the beginning of a concerted effort to strip away reproductive rights under the guise of providing “balance.”

Many have voted in Orange County and on most days we have broken voting records. Congrats. But not all have voted and even here in Orange County we could impact state results and even the national results.