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Welcome to Chapel Hill-Carrboro’s News, Talk and Tar Heels station! For 63 years WCHL has been THE place for news, talk Tar Heel Sports and information for Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County. For more than 40 years Ron Stutts has been waking up our community from 6am to 10am weekdays.
September 20, 2018
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Hometown Hero Awards
This week's Hometown Hero: Marin Lissy
September 20, 2018
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September 20, 2018
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Week of September 17, 2018
The community continues to recover from Hurricane Florence. Also: the Colonial Inn moves forward in Hillsborough, and UNC Health Care's Eastowne project moves forward in Chapel Hill.
September 20, 2018: Florence And The (Political) Machine
A strong response to a natural disaster typically boosts a governor's approval rating, and preliminary numbers show Roy Cooper has gotten a bump after Hurricane Florence.
September 20, 2018: UFOs
A presidential UFO sighting, a forgotten colonial war, and the U.S. Constitution.
September 18, 2018: Criminal Justice Debt
James Williams joins Aaron to discuss the issue of criminal justice debt - the subject of a forum that's taking place Thursday, September 20, from 6-8 pm at Chapel Hill Town Hall.
September 14, 2018: Florence And Flipping
Hurricane Florence and Paul Manafort's guilty plea: both Things. (Though Aaron's not 100 percent convinced about that last one - yet.)
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The Music in My Head: 9/18 – 9/21
9/18/18: The Beatles “Here Comes The Sun” A familiar song popped into my head. Actually, it’s...
September 20, 2018
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May 29, 2018: Goodbyeee
Meg's moving on to a new position (don't worry, still in Chapel Hill!), so this is her final Downtown Rundown. (We still have fun.)
September 20, 2018: Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is coming up! We preview this year's "Banned Books Trading Cards," promote Friday's kickoff event - and recommend books based on some unusual cases of recent censorship
September 15, 2018
Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his and Charlie Scott’s elections to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Introductory comments by Art Chansky.
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The Music in My Head: 9/18 – 9/21
9/18/18: The Beatles “Here Comes The Sun” A familiar song popped into my head. Actually, it’s...
March 1, 2018
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September 19, 2018: Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban donates $10 million to women's-rights causes after an NBA investigation finds a widespread culture of sexual harassment in the Dallas Mavericks organization.
September 14 – Twin Switching – Click to Listen
Aaron was joined in the studio by Jean Bolduc to answer this Friday’s question! Today’s KidsQ: If you could become the twin sibling of any of your friends, who would it be and why?...
September 15, 2018
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September 11, 2018: Hurricane
Yes, we do find a couple things to argue about - but it's all about hurricane prep this week.
