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Improving our Local Food Web: Part II

Posted by Jeff Danner | Nov 1, 2015 | Common Science

In Part I of this series, I noted that our local farmers, farmers markets, and restaurants in Orange County constitute a vibrant local food web that provides us with a number of important benefits including nutritious foods and...

Who is Margaret Spellings?

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 28, 2015 | The Commentators

Our university’s system Board of Governors, manipulating rules to speed up the process, has handed the presidency of our state’s university system to a non-academic with strong Republican political credentials....

Protect Personal Health Information For Athletes

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 28, 2015 | The Commentators

UNC has announced that two football players have suffered career ending medical problems, a neck injury and a heart condition. I won’t mention their names, but I certainly am puzzled and troubled by why the university...

Who said this about whom?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 27, 2015 | D.G. Martin

The candidate “has the knack of doing things and doing them noisily, clamorously; while he is in the neighborhood the public can no more look the other way than the small boy can turn his head away from a circus parade followed...

Co-op Employee Democracy

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 26, 2015 | The Commentators

As a ten-year active advocate for worker rights within our very favorite local grocery co-op, Weaver Street Market, I am making this appeal for help from any of the some 18,000 Weaver Street consumer-owners listening to this...

Improving our Local Food Web: Part I

Posted by Jeff Danner | Oct 24, 2015 | Common Science

In Orange County, North Carolina we take well-deserved pride in our local food web. We have innovative local farmers, numerous farmers markets and a host of local restaurants committed to using fresh, local ingredients. But we...

Five Things Chapel Hill’s Town Leaders are Finally Getting Done

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 23, 2015 | The Commentators

It’s human nature to be most vocal when we don’t like something, especially when it comes to our local elected officials. Freely expressing dissatisfaction about the decisions our leaders make is the bedrock of democracy. As we...

Are Assault Weapons Toys Appropriate for Halloween Costumes?

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

A friend of mine went into a local pop-up store to look for a Halloween costume for her grandson. She was horrified to find a rack of toy assault weapons that are paired with various costumes for boys. She thought this...

Keeping Chapel Hill Leafy and Livable

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 21, 2015 | The Commentators

The upcoming election is a critical one for Chapel Hill. Our mayor and town council seem to have forgotten that they were elected to represent their constituents. Over the past 50 years, the population of Chapel Hill has...

Good for Nicholas Sparks, good for North Carolina

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 20, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“My books are all different,” Nicholas Sparks, the No. 1 New York Times best selling author who lives in New Bern, told a group of 500 fans at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Alumni Center last week. Except, he says, for two things. One is...

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