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Doris Betts and Reynolds Price: Filling the empty space

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 28, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Who writes for us now? The question came up again with the death of Doris Betts, the beloved teacher and writer, a few weeks ago, reminding us that we have still not gotten used to a North Carolina without Reynolds Price...

Gravity, Still a Mystery

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 28, 2012 | Common Science

We are so accustomed to the effects of gravity that we fail to remember that although we can predict its effects, we don’t really know how it works. Really, we don’t. The mysteries of gravity have attracted some of the...

Charles Frazier talks about Nightwoods (paperback June 12)

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 26, 2012 | D.G. Martin

“No writer today crafts more exquisite sentences than Charles Frazier. The North Carolina native is famous for ‘Cold Mountain,’ his best-selling and critically acclaimed 1997 debut novel about the Civil War.…...

Let's do the math on magnet schools

Posted by The Commentators | May 25, 2012 | The Commentators

Today I speak with you as an extremely disheartened FPG parent, but also as a concerned citizen. So much is in the news about budget cuts, teacher layoffs and barebones classrooms for our schools. Yet our experience to keep FPG...

The Chapel Hill 2020 Plan Unveiled: We have seen the future…Or have we?

Posted by The Commentators | May 24, 2012 | The Commentators

At last, the Chapel Hill 2020 Plan has been unveiled, and we have seen the future. Or have we? Over the last year, many, many people have expended a great deal of precious time and effort in attempting to formulate a...

Facing the college challenges: Getting in and paying for it

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 24, 2012 | D.G. Martin

By pricing college out of reach to many American families and loading up students with burdensome debt, is our country breaking the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights? Article 26 of that Declaration provides in part...

Connecting the (Polka) Dots

Posted by Kristin Tucker | May 24, 2012 | The Fashion Plate

Apparently rocking polka dots at work is the trend to beat this season. The Fashion Plate loves this polished pattern look! Anyone who knows my style knows I’m the queen polka-dot-rocking-diva day and night. Polka dots...

Amendment One: All You Need Is Love

Posted by The Commentators | May 22, 2012 | The Commentators

Orange County voted against Amendment One. But it wasn’t enough. Even though a couple of weeks have passed, the pain still lingers. I know. I have friends who effectively have been told by the State of North Carolina they may...

425 years apart, two real estate promoters pick the same spots

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 21, 2012 | D.G. Martin

What does a resort real estate sales brochure have to do with Sir Walter Raleigh and with the Lost Colony that disappeared from North Carolina’s coastland 425 years ago? The colorful brochure that was delivered to my house last...

Fracking, What NPR Left Out

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 21, 2012 | Common Science

As I noted on the Common Science® Twitter feed, NPR is in the middle of a week-long series on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). It’s good to see them catching up with us. Then in the midst of NPR’s usual high-quality science...

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