Week's end:
Youth edition Jessia Connelly can spell “grit” — “polenta,” and “fortitude,” too, we bet — and that’s why this week’s Durham Grit Award goes to her
North Carolina’s children face ongoing food hardship The epidemic of childhood obesity has recently found a prominent place in our national conversation, bolstered no doubt by the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign, and the Food Revolution promoted by...
Reassessing sun, wind for energy In making the case for a rapid conversion away from heavily polluting energy sources like coal and nuclear power to cleaner generation, renewable energy advocates often confront the argument that ...
Jim Crow then, Jim Crow today? Fifty years ago, all across the South there were signs that said “Colored” and “White” as a warning to anyone approaching a water fountain or restroom — that the colo...
Reassessing sun, wind for energy In making the case for a rapid conversion away from heavily polluting energy sources like coal and nuclear power to cleaner generation, renewable energy advocates often confront the argument that ...
