Viewpoints: On the Feeding of Deer
Hi Neighbors! I want to share my thoughts on something that’s been going on in the area for years – the feeding of deer.
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Columns
Never Too Far: Stephen A. Smith Is Talking, but Is He Listening?
Let me begin here: I respect Stephen A. Smith. I respect his work ethic, his remarkable career, and his ability to build a powerful media platform.
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The Governor’s Column: New Notebooks, New Beginnings
As families across North Carolina fill shopping carts with binders and fresh boxes of crayons, another school year is just around the corner. As a dad of three graduates of North Carolina public schools, I have fond memories of back-to-school shopping together: debating backpack colors and making sure everyone had exactly what they needed for the first day.
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This Just In: Back to School
This Just In — I really must avoid Walmart at this time of year. It’s muscle memory, reflex, whatever you want to call it, but I cannot pass up a sale on pencils and pens and notebooks of every variety. Come to think of it, do I have enough graph paper?
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Little Big Moments: Hero Dad
Wednesday afternoon, I took my three kids back-to-school shopping. Three separate women in the store exclaimed that I was “a hero.” How did they know my secret identity?
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Holding Court: Carolina’s New Starting QB Offers Experience, Discretion
North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick may have tipped his hand on the Tar Heels’ 2026 starting quarterback choice earlier this year, when he summarized his basic philosophy on the position.
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Little Big Moments: To the Freshmen — Trust Your Gut
Monday marks the first day of classes at UNC, and I’m thinking of the freshmen in particular. Forget butterflies: the excitement and nerves in my belly on my first day were like a Molotov cocktail.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: See Us, Know Us
This week’s show is an exploration of the lives of handicapped people. Jennifer Chassman Browne is the guest and she talks about her new book ‘See Us, Know Us; Profiles of Disability.’
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Viewpoints: If ‘It’s Science’—Then Release the Evidence
Jean Bolduc’s recent Chapelboro column, “It’s Science,” dismisses the Senate investigation of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “ridiculous political exercise” centered on a “favorite conspiracy topic.”
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Past Rhymes With Present Times: Isolationist Fears of Foreign Ideas, People, and Trade
Contemporary campaigns against the influence of foreign people and ideas thus revive political fears from earlier times, but they also extend these fears into the twenty-first-century exchanges of international organizations, global commerce, transnational travel, and cross-cultural research at modern universities. The new Isolationism, in short, is using old fears to undermine the future influence and social-intellectual power of the United States.
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