Aug 28, 2020
A Few Sips from an Oasis of Optimism If we are to believe the predictions, we are heading toward a 10 week napalming of negative campaign ads: from radio and…
Jul 30, 2020
Lifting Up the Laboratories of Democracy The past twenty years have given all of us a steady set of reminders of what it means to live interconnected and interdependent in…
Jun 29, 2020
A Declaration of Interdependence A lot of people have been doing a lot of thinking about freedom and independence in the past month. It is the issue of the moment.…
May 29, 2020
Grieving Together Over the past 10 weeks, the Institute for Emerging Issues has been talking with our statewide and local partners to try to understand this confusing crisis we are…
Apr 29, 2020
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” –Winston Churchill, 1942 Dear Friends: None…
Mar 30, 2020
We’re All in Improv Now One of my family’s favorite shows is Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show, for those of you who haven’t seen it, involves actors reacting, in…
Feb 25, 2020
A Bit of a Choice 0 or 1. At the end of the day, every line of every piece of code comes down to that. Yes or no. A or…
Jan 23, 2020
A Farmer and a Businessman Making Broadband ‘Juice Worth the Squeeze’ There are at least two questions North Carolinians face as more and more of us get access to high-speed…
Dec 18, 2019
All I Want for Christmas Is New Brake Pads I’m dreaming of a — polite Christmas. As we head into 2020, I’m nervous. Pearce Godwin, the North Carolinian who heads…
Nov 22, 2019
Who’s at your Table? When I was growing up in Wilmington, Thanksgivings at our house were wild, rollicking events. There was our core – my sisters, my parents. Then there…
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