>>BY SARA LANG My youngest starts kindergarten next year, so we are knee-deep in the school choice process. We are lucky to live in Wake...[Read More]
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>>BY MELISSA GEIL At the beginning of this semester, I did two things that I’ve never done before in my over ten years of teaching...[Read More]
>>BY MELISSA GEIL Every year, parents in my neighborhood ponder moving to different school districts as they anxiously await the results of multiple magnet and...[Read More]
>>BY SARA LANG I’m no expert on health insurance. Each time I go to the doctor I struggle to understand the myriad rules governing co-pays,...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER BRICK When my mother got diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2002, it didn’t occur to me to be angry. As long as she was...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER BRICK I’m a teacher. Sniffling, coughing, sneezing teenagers are contaminating my classroom. Germs disseminate through the air, landing on desks, keyboards, supplies, and...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER BRICK Sometimes there is a piece of news that, when taken by itself, feels disheartening but bearable. But lay that news on top...[Read More]
>>BY MELISSA GEIL Back in 1993, when Paula Wolf first began her career as a lobbyist to the North Carolina General Assembly, she was walking...[Read More]
>> Enduring high school as a teen mom stinks—and not just because of the baby poop. Many messages intended to promote safe sex or abstinence >>have...[Read More]
>>BY LEANNE SIMON Last night was single-digits cold — the kind of cold that bursts steel pipes and >>shuts down government offices. A sleety drizzle tapped a...[Read More]