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Not over until it’s over

Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 15, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Are the legislators really going home soon? Finally! Over the weekend at the UNC-Chapel Hill vs. N.C. A&T football game, House Speaker Tim Moore was all smiles as he confirmed news reports that legislative leaders had struck...

Cold Fusion Part I: The Science

Posted by Jeff Danner | Sep 13, 2015 | Common Science, Featured

Last month Italian inventor Andrea Rossi was granted a U.S. patent for a fluid heater. At first glance, that’s not a particularly gripping opening sentence for a lively or interesting science column. But there is more to the...

Trends In Transition: Transitioning Your Summer Wardrobe Into Fall

Posted by Kristin Tucker | Sep 9, 2015 | The Fashion Plate

Soon summer will fade into fall. But anyone who has spent more than one week in the South knows that the transition from summer to fall weather is a process. You can expect to be teased with a few days of cool weather followed...

Changes

Posted by The Commentators | Sep 9, 2015 | The Commentators

By Julie McClintock We go about our lives not noticing when big changes are afoot. Most people are busy with a demanding job or just getting their kids ready for school. Now changes are too big not to notice. Near Whole Foods...

A baptism stirs memories, 135 years afterwards

Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 8, 2015 | D.G. Martin

When would a baptism in a small church in Wilmington be so important that it gets reported in the newspapers? It happened in 1880 at Fifth Street Methodist Church and again at the same church 135 years later on August 30, 2015....

Oxygen Free Atmosphere versus Holding Your Breath

Posted by Jeff Danner | Sep 6, 2015 | Common Science, Featured

Twice a year I head to my home town of State College, Pennsylvania to give a presentation to freshmen Chemical Engineering students at Penn State University entitled, “What a Chemical Engineer Actually Does.” It’s a fun trip for...

Who Win$ in Teaching in NC?

Posted by The Commentators | Sep 2, 2015 | The Commentators

By Ryan Ellefsen, Director of Bands and Orchestras, East Chapel Hill High School I have to admit that I wasn’t as excited to start this school year as much as I had been for all the others. That feeling has been gnawing...

Eating with the locals near the water

Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 1, 2015 | D.G. Martin

How do you find a home cooking restaurant that is both near an interstate highway and on or near the water? It is not easy. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about one of them, Holland’s Shelter Creek Restaurant near I-40 and...

Coal Ash, How Dry is Dry?

Posted by Jeff Danner | Aug 30, 2015 | Common Science

This week’s column assumes that the reader is familiar with the fact that Duke Energy has been tasked with closing or upgrading its coal ash lagoons across the state of North Carolina following a massive coal ash spill into the...

Trump, Romney, and Terry Sanford

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 25, 2015 | D.G. Martin

How did Donald Trump make Mitt Romney president in 2016? That is the question some pundits could be asking each other next November when they try to figure out how the president-elect, who had taken himself out of consideration...

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