The Durham-Orange Friends of Transit had a meeting last night. I had received no fewer than NINE separate invitations to go, so I figured I'd show up, especially since two of them were from completely separate elected officials ( Read more... )

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This is Not a Stonewall Story.

All day (Wednesday, I checked), I've been thinking today was Thursday. I said something to that effect after dinner, and A. said that yesterday he'd thought that today was Thursday, even though he was fine with yesterday being Tuesday. It's been a crazy week, and although I only have one dr. appt and one meeting tomorrow, I'm still not looking ( Read more... )

Duke University shares many wonderful traits with its peer institutions. However, it appears that Duke is falling behind its peers in the area of transportation benefits, and would do well to 'Get on the bus'. A quick survey of peer and neighbouring universities shows that many of them offer fully subsidised transit passes to employees and ( Read more... )

This post is going to be somewhat different than what you usually read and what I usually write. It's about sex education, and is mostly a pie-in-the-sky look at the way sex ed might be if we actually thought about it as grownups for a change. The impetus for this post came from a few recent discussions I've had with people, and some long-ago ( Read more... )

Attention everyone who lives in Durham (city or county), Chapel Hill, Carrboro, or Hillsborough (or inbetween CH and Hillsborough) - you are part of the DCHC MPO (Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization), a government entity. Please take a few minutes to fill out this transportation survey.

For all of the marshals on my flist: The myth of the longbow.

We know about the Thomas Tank Engine Recall, thanks. Have you seen this recall?

Do you still use antibiotic soaps and detergents? Maybe you shouldn't.

This airport is so near my home I can walk to it if I want to. I'm very interested in the Carolina North debates ( Read more... )

So between thalionar's draft post and giselle002's comment about the president's "History of the Past," I'm starting to wonder if maybe we're letting our guard down too much. The presidential election hype is already starting, and people have quit paying as much attention to what congress is doing. He does still have two years in office, and even though he lost the ( Read more... )