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Talk Derby To Me

Posted by Kristin Tucker | May 1, 2015 | The Fashion Plate

My favorite spring sporting event has to be the Kentucky Derby. What stands out most during this historic horse race is difficult to decide…the sleek and athletic thoroughbreds, the diminutive yet wiry jockeys in their colorful...

Economic Democracy In A Co-op

Posted by The Commentators | Apr 30, 2015 | The Commentators

This is Geoff Gilson. I am a worker-owner with Weaver Street Market Co-operative. Just recently, we workers got a little scold from the powers-that-shouldn’t-be in our bi-weekly employee “Market Messenger”...

Energy Freedom Now!

Posted by The Commentators | Apr 29, 2015 | The Commentators

This is Jim Warren. North Carolina is on track to greatly increase its use of solar power – at a really important time in the fight to slow climate change. The bipartisan Energy Freedom Act would allow well-financed companies to...

North Carolina And The U.S. – Mexico border

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 28, 2015 | D.G. Martin

What does the 1,969-mile border between the United States and Mexico have to do with North Carolina? A North Carolina author delivers pages of answers in a book about his journey along the entire border, from Boca Chica in Texas...

Radon, A Fracking Risk I Previously Overlooked

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 26, 2015 | Common Science

Earlier this month, researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives detailing the increase in radon concentrations in homes in the state of Pennsylvania since 2004,...

Widen Estes Drive!

Posted by The Commentators | Apr 22, 2015 | The Commentators

When Betsy and I left a medical office in Cary recently, we found ourselves heading home on I-40 just after 4 o’clock on a Friday afternoon. This is a punishment that only a mean-spirited judge would use as a sentence.

Is The Civil War Over?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 21, 2015 | D.G. Martin

One hundred and fifty years later, is the Civil War finally over? On Saturday, we will mark the 150th anniversary of the April 26, 1865 final surrender by Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston of approximately 90,000 troops to...

Common Science Fourth Anniversary

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 19, 2015 | Common Science

This week is the fourth anniversary of Common Science®. I published my first column, An Introduction to Your Host, on April 25, 2011 and last’s week’s column was my 200th. This means I have averaged 50 columns per year! Since...

William Powell, Dean of North Carolina History

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 17, 2015 | D.G. Martin

When UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Powell died last week at the age of 95, North Carolina lost its dean of history. With constant help and support from his wife Virginia, he authored countless books and articles,...

Columns

Talk Derby To Me

Economic Democracy In A Co-op

Energy Freedom Now!

North Carolina And The U.S. – Mexico border

Radon, A Fracking Risk I Previously Overlooked

Widen Estes Drive!

Is The Civil War Over?

Common Science Fourth Anniversary

William Powell, Dean of North Carolina History

Brian Thornburg On Competing With Himself

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