Chansky’s Notebook: Hurricane Happiness
With the potential for rain Saturday when UNC hosts No. 3 Notre Dame, Art Chansky remembers a rain-aided upset win for the Tar Heels.
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Daily and Weekly Features
On the Porch: Jim Crawford: Metastasized Corruption
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Born into a blue collar and agricultural clan in rural Pennsylvania, Dr. Jim Crawford was the first in his family to graduate from college. Earning his PhD from the University of North Carolina, he taught US and World History at several universities in the piedmont North Carolina for several decades. He served as chairman of the Chatham County board of commissioners. He is a firm believer in American democracy and trusts that the constitution will hold firm now as it has in past crises despite the broken, distempered electorate.
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Chansky’s Notebook: Snap Decisions
Art Chansky says it may be time for Bill Belichick and UNC to make a change at the quarterback position following Saturday’s loss at Clemson.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Asking ‘What If?’
In this week’s show Jori Hanna and I talked about her new novel, ‘The Regulars of Amanda Lexie’. She shares that the book flows from her asking ‘What if’ questions about the frequent customers of the coffee shop where Amanda works.
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Judy Miller’s Not Ready for the Farm: It’s Never Too Late to Pivot
What happens when the career you spent decades building is no longer the only thing calling you forward? Judy and Jessica sit down with attorney, leadership strategist, coach, and speaker Ariana Tadler to talk about reinvention, resilience, and finding the courage to pivot at any age. Ariana shares lessons from her own career transition, why curiosity can help quiet fear, how small steps create momentum, and why understanding your deeper “why” can open the door to what comes next.
Not Ready for the Farm is proudly presented by: The 79°West Innovation Hub, Clarity Legal Group, West Fork Wealth Management, Health Source Chiropractic, Purple Puddle, and HOPE Renovations.
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On the Porch: Lou Jewell: The Land Pro
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Lou Jewell has enjoyed 32 years in the land brokerage business and is licensed in North Carolina and Virginia. He’s an accredited land consultant with Land Pro Real Estate, Inc., has been an instructor for “Land 101” with RLI since 2003, and teaches 4 Land Educational Courses through Land Masters. Jewell is the author of “An Insider’s Guide to Land Investment” and has eight other books about land in the works. He’s recorded almost 300 one-hour podcasts called Let’s Talk Land which his available on Spotify & Podbean. Jewell was awarded the 2010 NC RLI Land Realtor of the Year award and the 2018 RLI Carolinas Chapter Realtor of the Year award. He is a former 2nd Lieutenant in the NC Army National Guard.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: The Biology of Wisdom
Join host Carl Nordgren for this week’s exploration into the unique biological markers of knowledge, wisdom and experience.
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On the Porch: Mayors Beaty and Ewing – Beaverton and Omaha Endorse the NIB
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Lacey Beaty is an American politician, combat veteran, and the current mayor of Beaverton, Oregon. She took office in 2021 as the first female and youngest mayor in Beaverton history, after serving six years as city councilor. Before entering politics, Beaty served five years of active duty in the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army as a radiology specialist and combat medic during the Iraq War. She has also worked in public health, overseeing school-based health centers. Beaty has identified the homelessness crisis and the welfare of veterans as priority issues for her administration.
John Ewing Jr. is an American politician, minister, and former police officer who has served as the 52nd Mayor of Omaha Nebraska, since 2025. Prior to his election as mayor, Ewing served for twenty-five years in the Omaha Police Department until his retirement as a deputy police chief. As a proud native of North Omaha, Mayor Ewing knows firsthand the life-changing impact of affordable housing. When he was 15 his parents bought the family’s first home that shaped his perspective forever. He is the proud husband to Dr. Viv Ewing, a devoted father, and a grandfather. Ewing is the first African American to be elected mayor of Omaha.
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Chansky’s Notebook: A Moment For The Future
If another coach doesn’t take over for Bill Belichick for the last 11 games of this season, what a circus it would continue to be for UNC.
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On the Porch: Cindy Geary and LaHoma Romocki – Pioneering Durham’s Desegregation
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After three decades of work in global public health, Cindy Waszak Geary (Hillside Class of ’73) turned to creative non-fiction writing, weaving together personal experience with social and cultural histories. Her first book, Going to School in Black and White, co-authored with LaHoma Smith Romocki, describes how they as two teenage girls—one black, one white—each were altered by a court-ordered desegregation plan for Durham, NC in 1970. She recently published a second book, also a memoir, Ancestral Landscapes. A graduate of UNC-CH, she has continued to live in Chapel Hill most of her adult life, and now also spends part of her time in the mountains of western NC, where she has deep ancestral roots. She is the mother of Emily and Max and the grandmother of Daisy.
LaHoma Romocki has held senior leadership global health positions with extensive field experience in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Romocki has an undergraduate degree from Duke University, both masters and PHD from UNC-CH. She is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Public Health Education at NCCU. Romocki is working to build the capacity of the next generation of the public health workforce and health care administrators. She has led study abroad programs and advises students interested in pursuing careers in the health. She is a resident of Granville County and is active in many organizations throughout the community.
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