Let me guess. You've been invited to a Super Bowl party on Sunday...maybe even more than one. If you're a Giants or Patriots fan, then you're probably going for the game watching and will be glued to the flat screen (or staying home out...

The latest incarnation of the Chapel Hill Town Government's fumbling quest to cover up the Yates incident is a joke, and may be the most politically revealing. Town Manager Roger Stancil, and presumably the Mayor and Police Chief, have come out with...

The Chapel Hill 2020 process is flying by with discussions, workshops, presentations, report out sessions packed onto the calendar. All focused on developing a plan for an even better Chapel Hill. I've had the pleasure of co-facilitating one of...

I sit here at my desk, trying to focus on typing an intelligent and witty column. Instead, I find myself distracted every few minutes by the little movements and noises of Poppy, the adorable 3-pound wonder fast asleep on my lap. I ponder, as I often...

Does it beguile you, bemuse you or just plain bug you that Carolina plays six ACC opponents only once each season and the other five twice? And while the Tar Heels hosted Georgia Tech Sunday night and visit Wake Forest tonight, they won't get a chance...

Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -Henry Van Dyke We've met some talented and creative women over the past few weeks: Johanna Ely, Ali Clayton, Meghan Kuder, Sadie...

Have you heard about the Presidential Volunteer Service Award? It is an award given by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation to individuals, families, and groups that have provided a certain number of volunteer service hours in a...

If you're among the many who believe Christmas decorations need to come down by in a timely fashion, I hope you will permit me this late-January look back at this Christmas past. This edition of $avvy $pender got underway in mid-December at...

It is the kind of surprise for which every ambitious politician must be prepared: the unexpected decision by an incumbent elected official to retire. It is, my friend Jay Rivers told me, the kind of window of opportunity that opens ever so slightly...

This is the third in my series of columns about how I expect life in Chapelboro to be different in 2050 as a result of reduced energy and resource availability. If you want to start at the beginning check out \"Life on Two Wheels\" and \"A Farewell to...

You may have wondered what would become of my column once the Fantasy Football season was over, and that time has come. I am happy to report that now is when the real Fantasy Football analysis begins. The successful Fanager is a perpetual student of...

The World Health Organization reports that around three billion people cook and heat their homes with an open fire that burns biomass such as wood and coal. That's HALF of all people in the world! Nearly two million people die prematurely from...

Watching the inner workings of the Chapel Hill Town Government has been an education. I've learned how an unwarranted, dangerous SERT unit deployed at the scene of a mere misdemeanor can turn into a two-month long effort by the Mayor, certain members of...

As a career counselor I work with people in transition all the time. Some enter the change voluntarily by deciding they want to find a job in line with their values or calling and others are thrust into it; the employer lets them go or their marriage...

I thought I had experienced the village in the 70's as a student at Carolina. Then, the old-timers corrected me, saying, \"That wasn't the village! It was back in the 50's. Or the 60's. When we were in school!\" and so it goes. We do agree on this: ...