Education for All
This is Rabbi Jen Feldman. The School Board adopted calendars for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 that...
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Columns
A Test on Noted North Carolina Authors
Let’s see how well you are keeping up with recent books by North Carolina authors. See how many new books and authors you can identify from the following clues. Two “non-poetry” books by a former North Carolina poet laureate. A...
Read MoreShould I Get the Shingles Vaccine?
Late the other night, I saw a TV commercial for Zostavax®, the vaccine for shingles. It opened with a picture of a man’s stomach emblazoned with large and grotesque pustules, allegedly from shingles. (The make-up crew for the...
Read MoreDeflating Footballs and Deflating Scandals
What do Tom Brady, the superstar quarterback of the New England Patriots, and UNC have in common? Both have broken the rules of the game. It seems pretty clear that Brady knowingly colluded to deflate footballs prior to the AFC...
Read MoreWhy Chapel Hill’s Affordable Housing Crisis Is Bigger than You Think
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. ...
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s “Only in America” Story
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...
Read MoreSingle Stream Recycling
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...
Read MoreLeuchtenburg rates Obama
“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...
Read MoreMillenials in Politics
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...
Read MoreArtificial Segregation in Public High Schools
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...
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