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Just Penalties

Posted by Staff | Aug 18, 2015 | The Commentators

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, is the 1963 Academy Award winning film starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Loren supports her family by means of assorted black market schemes which eventually bring the law down on...

“Little Rivers” meets “Interstate Eateries”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 18, 2015 | D.G. Martin

How is Bland Simpson’s upcoming book, “Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian’s Eastern Streams,” helping me write my book about local eateries near interstate highways? I will tell you in a minute. But first a few...

Alkali Burns at Pine Gate Apartments

Posted by Jeff Danner | Aug 16, 2015 | Common Science

As was previously reported by the news department at www.chapelboro.com, on July 8th, 10 people and 3 pets who reside at Pine Gate Apartments in Chapel Hill received chemical burns when they came in contact with an alkali-based...

Lessons of Peace and Possibilities Through the Sport of Basketball

Posted by Deborah Stroman, Ph.D. | Aug 14, 2015 | Columns

Although sport media headlines often accentuate the misdeeds and inappropriate actions of athletes, few can doubt the overall national interest in athletic competition and its benefit to America. As a guest of the National...

Worrying About Trump

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 10, 2015 | D.G. Martin

What did Hillary Clinton tell Donald Trump when he invited her to his wedding? She said, “I will come to the wedding if you promise to run for president.” This joke from Winston-Salem’s Steve Porter made me laugh, and it...

What Will They Talk About?

Posted by Staff | Aug 5, 2015 | Guest Column, Opinion

By E.B. Phillips: As our pal Bob ‘Palindrome’ Lee chews his cud over at the Cow College hoping the mush in his craw might actually become something other than the fertilizer he’s dropped so far, anxiety mounts among the Canine...

Summer’s Final Reading Assignments

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

A classic love story full of mountain music from one of North Carolina’s greatest living balladeers, a loving portrait of a North Carolina beach by a modern prophet of coastal catastrophe, a fictional look into the recent past...

The Science of Hail

Posted by Jeff Danner | Aug 2, 2015 | Common Science

It’s summer here in the Southern Part of Heaven and that means it’s time for hail storms. So I thought a column on the science of hail would be timely. Plus, my wife recently asked me a question about hail and my explanation was...

So They Are All, All Honorable Men

Posted by Staff | Jul 31, 2015 | The Commentators

In the foulness of the ongoing athletic/academic scandal at UNC, former Governor Jim Martin has brought an honorable breath of fresh air. Many were critical of Martin’s December 2012 report of his investigation into “serious...

How Far Have We Really Come?

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

By Barbara Foushee: I celebrated the Fourth of July by participating in the community reading of Frederick Douglass’ “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”; the speech was given in Rochester, NY, on July 5, 1852 at the...

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