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Mountain Music: Where It Came From, Where It’s Going

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 8, 2014 | D.G. Martin

As the International Bluegrass Music Association’s five-day “World of Bluegrass Festival” wound down in Raleigh a few days ago, some people were still asking: where did bluegrass music come from, anyway? North Carolinians have a...

Mercury Rising

Posted by Jeff Danner | Oct 5, 2014 | Common Science

As I noted last week in Of Minerals and Men, the journal Nature recently reported that the concentration of mercury in the upper zone of the world’s oceans has more than tripled since the start of the Industrial Revolution. I...

School Boards And Football

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 2, 2014 | The Commentators

This is Lew Margolis. The drumbeat of chilling evidence of brain damage associated with football continues to quicken. The National Football League recently reported that nearly a third of former players develop long-term...

A More Interesting Senate Race, In Fiction

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 1, 2014 | D.G. Martin

While you are watching U.S. Senate campaign television ads, occasionally interrupted by brief segments of programming, do you ever wonder what goes on inside the candidates’ campaign organizations? For instance, what if you...

Guns – Again

Posted by The Commentators | Sep 30, 2014 | The Commentators

Unbelievable! Buried in the middle of the paper, in a catch-all section called “Other News,” was the headline: “Grandfather kills 6 children, mother of children, and self.” Folks, this is a major slaughter, and nobody cares? The National Rifle Association has so conned us into thinking that guns are the American Way, patriotic and God-fearing, that we don’t even pay attention when a family implodes because of the easy accessibility of guns?

Of Minerals And Men

Posted by Jeff Danner | Sep 28, 2014 | Common Science

I recently read a report from the journal Nature noting that the concentration of mercury dissolved in the oceans has more than tripled since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. A number of questions immediately came to...

Blame Your Neighbor, Not The Town Manager

Posted by Staff | Sep 26, 2014 | The Commentators

Lately, there’s a narrative going around town that’s become popular among the people most opposed to growth in Chapel Hill. The story goes that Town Manager Roger Stancil has gained way too much power, especially over new...

Dispatch From Athens, Day III: Home Sweet Expensive Home

Posted by Aaron Keck | Sep 24, 2014 | Aaron Keck

Finished in Athens, returning to find our problems waiting right where we left them.

North Carolina’s Scottish Connection

Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 24, 2014 | D.G. Martin

Did North Carolinians have a stake in the outcome of last week’s referendum in Scotland? Maybe not the same kind of stake the residents of Scotland had, but our ties to that land are so close, so important, and so...

Columns

Mountain Music: Where It Came From, Where It’s Going

Mercury Rising

School Boards And Football

A More Interesting Senate Race, In Fiction

Guns – Again

Of Minerals And Men

Blame Your Neighbor, Not The Town Manager

Dispatch From Athens, Day III: Home Sweet Expensive Home

North Carolina’s Scottish Connection

Dispatch From Athens, Part II: The Da Vinci Form-Based Code

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