If you’re online on Giving Tuesday, you’ll be inundated with requests for donations for non-profits. The day has become an annual tradition, following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, as a way to give back to the community organizations that help make life better for people. And, why stop at Giving Tuesday? Your year-end, holiday-time […]
I woke up this morning and perused Facebook and news sites for the latest news out of Ferguson, Mo. Last night, prosecutors announced that a grand jury had failed to indict officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown. This was one of the first things that popped into my feed: […]
On Thursday evening, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Pat Cotham shared on Facebook a hand-drawn map analyzing, by precinct, the results of the at-large commissioner election earlier this month. It’s just one simple map. But it contains several stories, each of a divided Mecklenburg County. Electoral divide The shared map comes as debates heat up over who […]
[The first “Dear Michael Weinstein,” tackled Weinstein’s and his AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s advertising campaign this week against pre-exposure prophylaxis and the use of Truvada, along with their ridiculous notions about some “condom culture.” If you missed it, check it out here.] Michael Weinstein’s AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s ads against the use of Truvada as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) […]
“I’ve been listening hard and can tell you with authority that I never hear the following phrases uttered in Charlotte,” Charlotte Observer columnist Mark Washburn wrote in July, before proceeding with his list of hilarious snippets very truly never said in Charlotte. Washburn followed up with a second list of 20 more “said no one […]
What’s up with Michael Weinstein and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation? For months now, they’ve been at the forefront in opposing new HIV prevention methods like PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), which uses drugs like Truvada to stop infection in HIV-negative individuals (read more about PrEP and how it works here). Yesterday, writer Josh Barro highlighted Weinstein’s and […]
* The Weekly Month’s Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week month. The Weekly Wrap returns — after a long several weeks of breaking, history-making news. If you follow regularly, you know that I haven’t been able to sit […]
Tuesday is Election Day, and for the first time in a decade, the chances of an openly gay or lesbian candidate being elected to the North Carolina General Assembly are slim to none. Come January, the state legislature will likely include no openly LGBT voices. The state missed its opportunity to ensure LGBT community representation […]
The Weekly Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. This edition of the weekly wrap will be brief, for more than obvious reasons. Simpler sometimes is better (and, boy, doesn’t it help when I’m still slammed covering all […]
The Weekly Wrap — the most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. 1. N.C. voter suppression law partly reversed The biggest political story, by far, this week was the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reverse parts of North Carolina’s far-reaching voter […]
The Weekly Wrap. The most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. 1. Scotland votes More than 3 million people voted last week in Scotland’s independence referendum. Officials said it was a record turnout of more than 84 percent of registered voters. In total, […]
The Weekly Wrap. The most important, impactful and interesting news stories, ideas, cultural trends or just plain-old fun and oddball items I found this week. (ICYMI: Yesterday’s post, “Back to the blog and recommitting to self”) 1. Mind Blow: No one has legal authority over the Union Jack? I’m an American. Born here. Bred here. Will probably […]
Over the weekend, the Society of Professional Journalists updated their Code of Ethics. It was a long time coming — the last update had been made nearly two decades ago. The core of the code remained unchanged, including calls for journalists to be the “voice for the voiceless” and, in tandem, “seek sources whose voices […]
Dear friends: The views contained in the commentary below no longer accurately reflect my thoughts on this subject. Nearly a year later, and after much reflection and conversation with friends, my opinions on this topic have significantly shifted and altered. I encourage you to read this new commentary on Confederate heritage, effectively a retraction and […]
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Covering Frazier Glenn Miller
For the past two weeks, I’ve worked with friend and colleague Todd Heywood to take an in-depth look at the ties Frazier Glenn Miller — charged with murder for in the April 13 shootings at a suburban Kansas City Jewish center and retirement home — has to a 1987 unsolved triple-murder in Shelby, N.C. We […]