>>BY TAZRA MITCHELL Working Tar Heel moms are never off the clock. From laboring at the workplace all day to tucking kids in at night,...[Read More]
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>>BY JANET COLM The night of Sept. 5, 1996, just as Hurricane Fran made landfall on Bald Head Island, a young woman living outside of...[Read More]
>>BY LEANNE SIMON What do you recall about childhood? I remember the fun of after-school play-dates (though we didn’t call them that then), staying up...[Read More]
>>BY TIFFANY FRYE What’s the difference a law can make? How about $70,000 in families’ pockets? Autism advocates have new hope that a bill mandating...[Read More]
>>BY JANET COLM More than 40 years ago, girls in high school wore bloomers and played half-court basketball. Married women could not have credit cards...[Read More]
>>BY JANET COLM None of us like to think of ourselves as “average” — but if you are the average American woman who has sex...[Read More]
>>BY LEANNE SIMON Ahh… April in North Carolina. We start packing away the sweaters, braving the neon clouds of pollen, and rubbing our hands together...[Read More]
>>BY MELISSA GEIL Rape and consent laws in North Carolina may be getting a much needed makeover this legislative session. Without much fanfare and right...[Read More]
>>BY TIFFANY FRYE The North Carolina Legislature is considering SB 297, which, if passed, will criminalize prenatal use of narcotics. A similar bill was passed...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER BRICK In a curriculum meeting the other day, my principal told me (a teacher) that only 4% of eighth grade students entering high school...[Read More]