Column: Trying times for teacher tenure
When coming up with state budget last year, the N.C. legislature passed a version that would eliminate tenure for teachers in the state by 2018. In “exchange” ...
Read More »When coming up with state budget last year, the N.C. legislature passed a version that would eliminate tenure for teachers in the state by 2018. In “exchange” ...
Read More »Second only to “Milkshake,” Kelis’ most well-known song is “Bossy.” The opening lines of the track, “You will respect me/ you know why?/ cuz ...
Read More »Have you ever dreamt you were a hobbit? Psh, yeah, me neither! But for the sake of me making a point, let’s imagine for a minute we were hobbits. How ...
Read More »Last Saturday night I went behind enemy lines at Krzyzewskiville, the tent village outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium, for the final night of tenting.
Read More »So you don’t care about basketball. You don’t pray toward the Smith Center five times daily, you don’t get a sense of humble reverence in your heart ...
Read More »On Sunday evening, the 86th Annual Academy Awards aired. “12 Years A Slave,” was a major winner, collecting three awards including Best Picture and ...
Read More »I learned everything I know about basketball from ”One Tree Hill.” My only understanding of the game stems from its relation to whatever family drama ...
Read More »So a friend recommended this new local spot to me, called “The Frat.”
Read More »I acknowledge that partying is part of the culture here in Spain, where dinner time is 10 p.m., pregames start after midnight and cities are famous for ...
Read More »Once upon a 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent had beef.
Read More »Misguided is perhaps too light a word to describe the infamous Chapel Hill housing ordinance, which prevents more than four unrelated people from living ...
Read More »Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!
Read More »The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the biggest trade deal you’ve never heard of. The subject of nearly a decade of negotiations, the deal has the potential ...
Read More »If a tree celebrates Presidents Day in the forest, does it make a sound? And at what point do we care?
Read More »Mr. President-elect, my gift to you…
Read More »The state is Florida. The setting is a murder trial. The two people at the center of the case include an older white man and a younger black teenager. ...
Read More »There is no greater joy in life than sitting down with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s to binge-watch “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.” Many ...
Read More »“Sometimes you’ve just gotta be a little classy,” my mother would tell me, feet up on the coffee table, a sparkling glass of Sunset Blush Franzia ...
Read More »I’m not here to try convincing you to give up meat.
Read More »Love is like the stock market: fickle in the short term and gainful in the long term.
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