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Lots of good programming going on this week on campus during Poverty Awareness Week sponsored by the Campus Y. Sorry I'll have to miss t...

Municipalist is a blog that focuses on blogging by public officials--legislators, school board members, town council members and such. This...

Barack Obama's speech yesterday was a remarkable performance. Some politicians would have "denounced" the inflamatory words of...

From Meg McGurk of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership . At yesterday's meeting of the work group for the Orange County Partnership to ...

Mayor Kevin Foy's statement tonight at the beginning of our Town Council meeting: We begin this evening's meeting by acknowledgin...

Long ago I trained myself out of using exclamation points--no place for them in polished writing, I learned and dutifully practiced: words t...

Today is International Women's Day . I spent part of it speaking to the Orange County chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma , an honor society of...

Many thanks to the Daily Tar Heel for its generous $10,000 contribution  to the " Real Change from Spare Change " program.

Two communities are shaken to the core by the senseless murder of Eve Carson . Here's what they're saying in her home town of Athen...

Entertaining ephemera from the North Carolina Collection.

Not a bird-brain question. From a fascinating article about the annual bird count, the Carolina parakeet, and more: On the very first page ...

Please tune in to WCOM-FM , 103.5, Carrboro's community radio station, tonight starting at 7 p.m. for our local version of the 11th annu...

For five years in a row now, I've documented my earliest daffodil--always in January, with last year's in December! It's a var...

In London a young artist said to me, "How wonderful it must be for an American traveling in Europe the first time; you can never be a ...

Last night, Paul and I had a great time at the opening night of Deep Dish Theater's timely and snappy production of " State of the...

With the recent republication of John Ehle's 1965 book The Free Men , a moving chronicle of the civil rights protests that stood "...

Congratulations to Paul for getting a UNC appearance for D.J. Spooky yesterday afternoon to tag along with Spooky's Duke date this ev...

Via Legal History Blog, many great-sounding new books in African American studies . I'm pleased to add that my entry on Meshack Robert...

A month ago, the Town of Chapel Hill condemned the house at 115 Battle Lane, capping a long, sad, frustrating saga for the house that once ...

Over at Legal History Blog , Al Brophy has been weighing in with some interesting posts on such topics as the property law implications of t...