The day after the CHCCS Board of Education voted to close Glenwood Elementary, my kindergarten son brought home his first school yearbook. We hadn’t yet told him the news; I still needed to process my feelings.
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With the countenance of an enraged bullfrog, Rep. Brenden Jones berated the chief of Chapel Hill’s public schools. His purpose was to create a spectacle: the fearless champion of rural North Carolina castigating a woke miscreant.
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Two questions continued to nag at me: How many generations of my family had lived in Orange County? And was Jacob Albright my direct ancestor?
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When we first became aware that Martina, my wife, would be giving birth to a boy, our first child, my mind took off on a flight of grandeur. Over the ensuing months, I began to design a mental blueprint.
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Chris Ehrenfeld shares lessons learned from a couple of days in Omaha cheering on the Tar Heels baseball program with his sons.
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On June 11, 2026, WFDD – Public Radio published a story about two UNC system schools that deleted pride posts because they supposedly violated a UNC system policy that prohibits speaking about “political controversies of the day.”
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Constitutional amendments are supposed to be rare. They are supposed to matter. They are meant to alter foundational principles or governmental structure when absolutely necessary.
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Increasingly often, it’s just hard to believe one’s lying eyes. Last Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee released its proposed 2027 Pentagon budget (NCAA) of a staggering $1.15 trillion. And get this: section 224 of this bill proposes essentially melding together the armed forces of the US and Israel.
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Our public schools are in crisis. In the last four years alone, 57 public schools in N.C. have closed. Declining birth rates are part of the story, but so are chronic underfunding and private school vouchers that divert taxpayer dollars. These forces are making it increasingly difficult for public schools to attract students and retain the best teachers for them.
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As someone originally from Appalachia who grew up in Western North Carolina, I recognize the warning signs when I see them here in Hillsborough. The views expressed by Commissioner Hughes and the board at large last night on AI and data centers being “inevitable” hit a nerve with me. My grandparents, my parents, and I have heard this language before.
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