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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...

Growing In Tae Kwon Do

Posted by The Commentators | May 6, 2015 | The Commentators

My name is Lucy Linh Murphy. I started studying Tae Kwon Do at Kim’s White Tiger when I was five and half years old. I just turned seven in April, and I am about to test for my black belt. I have learned so much from Tae Kwon...

Bad News For Politicians – And The Rest Of Us, Too

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 5, 2015 | D.G. Martin

I have some bad news for North Carolina politicians. Some of your best friends are dying. It is not people that I am thinking about. It is restaurants. In the small towns and cities in our state, candidates for public office...

Kelp To The Rescue?

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 3, 2015 | Common Science

Yesterday I read an article on the Huffington Post entitled “Seaweed Might Have The Power To Make The Oceans Less Acidic.” The article explained that the increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere since the...

Talk Derby To Me

Posted by Kristin Tucker | May 1, 2015 | The Fashion Plate

My favorite spring sporting event has to be the Kentucky Derby. What stands out most during this historic horse race is difficult to decide…the sleek and athletic thoroughbreds, the diminutive yet wiry jockeys in their colorful...

Economic Democracy In A Co-op

Posted by The Commentators | Apr 30, 2015 | The Commentators

This is Geoff Gilson. I am a worker-owner with Weaver Street Market Co-operative. Just recently, we workers got a little scold from the powers-that-shouldn’t-be in our bi-weekly employee “Market Messenger”...

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