Viewpoints: Our Town Does It To Us, Not With Us
About a week ago, I was walking my puppy through the woods at the end of Mendel Drive Extension in the Old Forest Creek neighborhood, as I and others do every day.
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Viewpoints: How We Decide Matters
Like many families, I attended the July 16th Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board meeting expecting to hear where Glenwood Elementary’s integrated STEAM² program might go. Instead, I left thinking about something much bigger.
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Viewpoints: Looming Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt North Carolinians
On April 30th, Governor Josh Stein signed House Bill 696 (HB 696) into law, ending a protracted funding shortfall for the state’s Medicaid program, which provides health insurance coverage to over three million low-income, disabled, and elderly North Carolinians.
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Viewpoints: To Keep CHCCS Strong, Keep STEAM² Together
The day after the CHCCS Board of Education voted to close Glenwood Elementary, my kindergarten son brought home his first school yearbook. We hadn’t yet told him the news; I still needed to process my feelings.
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Viewpoints: MAGA Is Weakening in North Carolina, Brenden Jones Is the Face of It
With the countenance of an enraged bullfrog, Rep. Brenden Jones berated the chief of Chapel Hill’s public schools. His purpose was to create a spectacle: the fearless champion of rural North Carolina castigating a woke miscreant.
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Viewpoints: America at 250: The Revolution Happened Here, Too
Two questions continued to nag at me: How many generations of my family had lived in Orange County? And was Jacob Albright my direct ancestor?
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Viewpoints: He Calls Me Dad
When we first became aware that Martina, my wife, would be giving birth to a boy, our first child, my mind took off on a flight of grandeur. Over the ensuing months, I began to design a mental blueprint.
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Viewpoints: What Three Tar Heels Taught Me in Omaha
Chris Ehrenfeld shares lessons learned from a couple of days in Omaha cheering on the Tar Heels baseball program with his sons.
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Viewpoints: More Than Controversy
On June 11, 2026, WFDD – Public Radio published a story about two UNC system schools that deleted pride posts because they supposedly violated a UNC system policy that prohibits speaking about “political controversies of the day.”
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Viewpoints: Constitutional Changes Are Rarely Necessary
Constitutional amendments are supposed to be rare. They are supposed to matter. They are meant to alter foundational principles or governmental structure when absolutely necessary.
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