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To Frack or Not to Frack?

Posted by Jeff Danner | Aug 14, 2011 | Common Science

On July 19th, 400 people assembled in the Fearrington barn for an event called Fracking Bewareness to hear a cautionary message about the potential to drill for natural gas in North Carolina using a technique called hydraulic...

A Letter to Deems May

Posted by The Commentators | Aug 12, 2011 | The Commentators

Dear Deems, Your August 01 letter published by InsideCarolina.com could not have been further from the intended mark. The subject should have been the University of North Carolina, but it was Deems May. Your letter included...

Don't Drive Angry

Posted by The Commentators | Aug 9, 2011 | The Commentators

When I first moved to Carrboro in 2003 I was so impressed by this community’s patience and decorum on the roads. Having moved from Washington DC, where I was born and raised, I was accustomed to a far more aggressive scene. I...

Hope for our “contentious and fitful process”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 9, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Did anything good come out of last week’s resolution of the debt limit crisis? Well, maybe. But it was hard to find it in those first few days after the last-minute legislation passed, promising reductions in spending and...

Electricity Production 101

Posted by Jeff Danner | Aug 8, 2011 | Common Science

Making electricity is easy. You take a coil of wire, you spin it near a strong magnet and you get electricity. Getting the coil to spin is, oddly, the more challenging part. I’ll explain this below, but first let’s talk about my...

Thorp and the Football Coach

Posted by The Commentators | Aug 3, 2011 | The Commentators

Prior to last Wednesday evening, I was one among a group of friends who had struggled, deeply troubled with the drumbeat of news about the UNC football program. It was not about the gridiron prospects of the coming season, but...

Ask The Fashion Plate…

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Aug 3, 2011 | The Fashion Plate

August finds us planning, dreaming about or actually taking that last summer vacation. It’s a huge travel month with beach weeks both exotic and local, destination weddings, mission trips and hometown visits with family and...

New books and a new Bookwatch

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 1, 2011 | D.G. Martin

UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch begins a new season on Friday, August 5, at 9:30 p.m., and Sunday, August 7, at 5 p.m. My editors let me share with you my reading suggestions. They know that the suggestions parallel exactly...

Our Towing Economy

Posted by The Commentators | Jul 29, 2011 | The Commentators

Guest Column by Mike Harris I usually ride my bike around town, but on Wednesday July 20, the bike needed some adjustments, so I had to strap it to the back of my Honda Accord and drive up Franklin to The Bicycle Chain. After...

Welcome to the Greenhouse

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jul 29, 2011 | Common Science

Loyal readers will have noticed that I skipped last week’s blog entry as my family and I were on summer vacation. I don’t normally post on Fridays, but when I woke up this morning and heard that the forecasted high temperatures...

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