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I'm stunned by this morning's news that René Campbell has died. She was found dead, apparently of natural causes, in her mother'...

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Could there be a public radio talk show that WUNC doesn't carry? Yes! There is. Smart City is a radio show dedicated to cities and urb...

A Burlington resident comments in response to Dan Gillmor's link to the post below: The Alamance News is a small weekly paper, but inte...

At IsThatLegal I've reported on historian Dan Carter's disheartening speech on the federal clampdown on the free flow of public rec...

I've just had an intense day and a half at the " Southern Sources " conference celebrating 75 years of UNC's Southern Hist...

By now I've been involved in many a news event, but never till yesterday in a press conference over at the Legislature in Raleigh. It wa...

When people ask me why I started blogging, the real answer is that Eric Muller asked me to. Last summer he talked me into a stint of guest-...

Much to report today--a drive to Raleigh in the chilly rain to speak at a press conference on behalf of Chapel Hill's part in the effort...

Turning left this morning off the bypass onto Willow, I had to hang in traffic to wait for a bicyclist to cross. My fault for not paying mor...

Unseasonably cold around here on this fateful day . Bundle up and beware!

At long last--I don't even remember how long--I've finished, or abandoned, an essay I promised to write on The Voice at the Back Doo...

It's a sad day when a story like this is not shocking. Really, it just shows that David Niewert ("The Rise of Pseudo Fascism"...

When Judge Frank Johnson held that the rights of the Selma marchers would be commensurate with the constitutional wrongs that had been infl...

The train wreck that is our education system . ( More of the same.) . . . the disaster that is federal emergency management . ( Ditto .) Th...

Executive advice on how to handle your email . One CEO charges $5 for each email message received from underlings. (Via kottke .)

In December I noted that a criminal defendant in Durham had invoked an old treaty, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, as a defens...

My brother feels betrayed by the Southern Baptist Church.

In an interview , New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik recalls that when he was writing his series from France (which he reworked into a very nice...

until the next Harry Potter book . The cover designs were released this week --one for children and one for adults. This is the first I'...