The Governor’s Column: Preparedness Starts Before Disaster Strikes
September is Preparedness Month in North Carolina, a time to remind ourselves that being ready for a natural disaster happens long before a storm is on the horizon.
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Columns
Viewpoints: A Letter to Steve Newmark
I don’t believe I am alone in concluding that the Belichick experiment has been an unequivocal failure. In the last year and a half with him as head coach, UNC has suffered one scandal after another, more than every other coaching staff in UNC’s history combined.
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This Just In: Gloria
I met Gloria Steinem once, for about 15 seconds at a book signing in Chapel Hill, probably 30 years ago. Remarkable to me was that she wasn’t the 10 foot tall presence that I imagined.
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Little Big Moments: The Late Light
My wife and I celebrated 19 years of marriage this week. Wendell Berry, the writer-farmer from Kentucky, passed away on Monday after 69 years of marriage to his wife, Tanya.
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Holding Court: Belichick’s Two-Year Players Paying Defensive Dividends
Heading into the team’s 2025 opener against TCU, Belichick and most of his staff had spent only about eight months around a large majority of their players, then had an incredibly short window to prepare the 20 transfers they added after the spring semester.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Engagement, Difficulty and Activation
In this week’s show our guest, Bradley McDevitt, spends time talking about the importance of our bodies in our creative growth and performance.
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This Just In: An American Original
This Just In — The English had their Shakespeare. The Italians had DaVinci. We, thankfully, had Dolly.
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Little Big Moments: Miracle of The Pumpkins
Last Sunday, I was weeding along my backyard fence and discovered two pumpkin vines! (That is a sentence that deserves an exclamation point.) Initially, I thought they were squash plants.
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Holding Court: Belichick’s Second UNC Campaign Must Show Improvement, Stability
In the early 1990s, Stanford University hired a legendary National Football League head coach with three Super Bowl rings. That Bill Walsh experiment got off to a fantastic start — a 10-3 campaign and a top-10 national finish in 1992 — but Walsh retired at the end of the 1994 season, at 63 years old, after his next two Cardinal teams stumbled to 4-7 and 3-7-1 records.
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The South Orange Dispatch: 2 Decades of Teaching CPR
SORS has evolved its training programs, including CPR, to increase the availability of and access to health services and care — an important factor in reducing harmful social determinants of health and health inequities.
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