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On the Porch: Talking News with Dan Kane

by Staff | Oct 25, 2026 | On The Porch, Town Square

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Dan Kane is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Raleigh, NC newspaper The News & Observer. Kane, with whistleblower Mary Willingham, is credited for unearthing substantive academic fraud regarding student-athletes who were directed towards phony classes, according to allegations. Kane also covered NCSU, legislative corruption, and the formation of the state lottery. His reporting on NC’s secretive personnel law exposed how the state kept much information about state employees from public scrutiny, which led to a new state law to expedite information-gathering about the pay and performance of state employees. He is a 1983 graduate of Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, NY.

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Viewpoints: The Future of Our Schools

by Viewpoints | Oct 23, 2026 | Columns, Town Square, Viewpoints

Over the past year, CHCCS schools have shown what’s possible when we combine great teaching, strong relationships and a shared belief in what students can achieve. Our graduation rate is up to 93.8%. Our academic proficiency is nearly 14 percentage points higher than the state average.

This Just In: The Pattern Repeats

by Jean Bolduc | Oct 22, 2026 | Columns, This Just In, Town Square

This Just In—It’s a cliché for a reason … history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. The expression is often attributed to Mark Twain, not because he actually said it, but because it seems like something he would have said.

Little Big Moments: On Good-Natured Joshing

by Andrew Taylor-Troutman | Oct 22, 2026 | Columns, Little Big Moments, Town Square

I was invited to an Eagle Scout ceremony. I was moved by the ritual, yet I also found myself as focused on the Scouts themselves, who fidgeted in the old church’s wooden pews in their freshly ironed uniforms. I sensed that they were waiting for something.