AUTHOR'S NOTE: This post was updated to reflect a time and date has been selected for the first Community Connections forum for 2017-18. It will be 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23 in Lakeside at the Moseley Center at Elon University. That's a new site for the forum but the same building. "Can it really … Continue reading Updated: Community Connections at Elon hits a milestone year
Month: August 2017
Nixon in the rearview mirror: What happened then echoes today
I've said on more than one occasion that when I was a newspaper editor I wasn't much of an editorial writer. I didn't like that part of the job very much and even lobbied to get rid of the opinion pages entirely. Often the editorials didn't reflect my own views but the collective voice of … Continue reading Nixon in the rearview mirror: What happened then echoes today
Political aspirations . . . thanks but no thanks
A few weeks ago I had an exchange on Twitter. It came during the often contentious debate over public education funding in Alamance County, it was a fight the pro-education folks – let’s call them the “good guys” – lost by a whisker to forces that, well let’s face it, have a stake in forging … Continue reading Political aspirations . . . thanks but no thanks
Throwback Thursday: Our bug-infested megalopolis to be
This is something I wrote in 2014 after reading a very revealing study about what North Carolina might look like in the year 2060. Think a bug-infested wasteland -- something like "Blade Runner meets the Andy Griffith Show." This column actually sparked a Community Connections discussion at Elon. Here it goes ... --- It’s almost … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Our bug-infested megalopolis to be
Madison's Avenue 