N.C. State University entomology professor David Tarpy has studied honeybees for 14 years. He’s seen bees die off due to mites, pesticides and a wide array of problemsbut he’s never seen anything like today’s crisis. Tarpy is part of a national working group of scientists and federal officials investigating the causes of colony collapse disorder, […]
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Herald-Sun owners weighing fate of The Chapel Hill Herald
It started, as things do these days, with a rumor on a blog. Jon Ham, the former managing editor of The Herald-Sun newspaper, posted an item on the John Locke Foundation’s Right Angles blog on April 18: “I just heard a rumor that the Paxton Media folks are going to kill The Chapel Hill Herald.” […]
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Kristin Goss
Kristin Goss is a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University and author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America. She spoke about the issue of gun control in light of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech. It seems that every time something like this happens, there’s a conversation […]
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Scholars to consider the role of technology in academia
Should college students be banned from using Wikipedia in their research? In February, the history department at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., made news by doing just thatwell, not exactly. It set a policy prohibiting students from citing Wikipedia in their papers, consistent with its policy of not citing print encyclopedias. The news prompted other […]
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Full Frame looks to future and sees online video
For the past several years, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has included in its programming discussions of intellectual property issues as they relate to documentary filmmaking. This year, the festival’s organizers looked past the headaches of copyright law in conventional film distribution toward the wild frontier of video on the Web. A program called […]
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Adam Hartzell
Interact is a nonprofit that provides services at no cost to victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Wake County. Its programs include a 24-hour crisis line, a residential shelter, and court and hospital advocacy. As a variety of legislation relating to domestic violence makes its way through the legislature, we asked […]
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Durham Dems to select Lucas’ successor
The passing of state Sen. Jeanne Lucas last month left her seat vacant. Now the Durham Democratic Party is charged with selecting a candidate to represent District 20, which covers most of Durham County except for the southwest corner between RTP and Orange County. Those stepping up to fill her shoes include party faithfuland more […]
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Matthew Potter
Matthew Potter is a junior in political science and a student senator at N.C. State University. He is also president of the NCSU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Last week, the NCSU student senate passed a resolution Potter introduced that calls on North Carolina’s congressional delegation to amend the Higher Education Act. Tell […]
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What’s going on at The N&O?
Change is afoot at the Triangle’s daily newspaper of record. Since the beginning of the year, The News & Observer has slowly implemented a series of shifts in editorial personnel and coverage. Veteran columnists are back to beat reporting. Reporters have been pulled from bureaus in Durham and Orange counties to help bolster coverage of […]
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U.S. Rep. Brad Miller
Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C. 13) joined a narrow majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives last week to vote in favor of a timetable for bringing American troops home from Iraq. The emergency spending bill provides $100 billion to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while imposing a series of benchmarks to […]
