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Why Chapel Hill’s Affordable Housing Crisis Is Bigger than You Think

Posted by Staff | Jun 1, 2015 | The Commentators

This is Matt Bailey. When we talk about affordable housing, we often assume we’re talking specifically about homes for residents with low incomes. Chapel Hill definitely has an affordable housing crisis by that standard. ...

North Carolina’s “Only in America” Story

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

He was the most famous North Carolinian in the country, for a moment back in the late 1950s and 1960s. Today, you rarely hear his name. My children, who grew up in the 1970s a few blocks from where Harry Golden worked, do not...

Single Stream Recycling

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 31, 2015 | Common Science

Long time readers may be aware that my father, Ron Danner, is an emeritus professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. This is the second of two columns that we are co-authoring, both of which are pertinent to...

Leuchtenburg rates Obama

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 26, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“How will historians rate Barack Obama’s presidency?” Following up my conversation last week with historian William Leuchtenburg about the challenges Hillary Clinton faces in her campaign, I wanted him to begin to put Obama in...

Millenials in Politics

Posted by The Commentators | May 21, 2015 | The Commentators, Town Square

This is Matt Hughes. A recent Harvard poll of 18 to 29 year olds, folks who are classified as millennials, showed that many within my generation do not want to run for political office or engage in politics. And that’s...

Artificial Segregation in Public High Schools

Posted by The Commentators | May 20, 2015 | The Commentators

This is Judy Jones. I have been thinking and reading a great deal about the incident with the Confederate Flag and the East Chapel Hill High Students. As a retired teacher from this high school, I am saddened by the lack of...

Historian Leuchtenburg on Hillary Clinton’s Challenges

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 19, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Is it too early to start putting the 2016 presidential election in historical perspective? Maybe. But it is never too early to ask presidential historian and UNC-Chapel Hill emeritus history professor William Leuchtenburg to...

Paper or Plastic?

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 17, 2015 | Common Science

Long time readers may be aware that my father, Ron Danner, is an emeritus professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. I am pleased to announce that for the next two weeks he and I are co-authoring two Common...

Surprising Heroes In A Long Struggle For Justice

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 12, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Why does a moderate, progressive journalist write a book critical of his political idol, Terry Sanford, the late governor and senator, and make a hero of Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis? It would just be an interesting...

Sturgeon, The Living Fossil

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 10, 2015 | Common Science

During the time I lived in Philadelphia, from 1989 through 1993, just across the Delaware River, the waterfront of Camden, New Jersey was undergoing a significant revitalization. One of the centerpieces of this effort was the...

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