Sweet Serendipity
Up close and personal with Appalachian legends Note: This is the seventh installment from “The Hillbilly Highway, Volume 2: Seeds, Songs and Streams.” Learn more here. By Michael M. Barrick BLACK MOUNTAIN, […]
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Get Out Your Pen and Speak Out – If You Dare!
Writing Workshop will help you address needs in your community and state – or simply help you grow and learn more about yourself and the world around you Speak out […]
North Carolina Teachers Should Have Right to Strike
Strike vote by West Virginia teachers shows the value of unions By Michael M. Barrick LENOIR, N.C. – West Virginia teachers recently voted overwhelmingly to go out on strike if […]
ASU Student Uses Art to Teach Peers about MTR
A mind at work inspired research and response By Michael M. Barrick BOONE, N.C. – In late October, a professor at Appalachian State University (ASU) reached out to me because […]
Meanwhile, Outside the Beltway
Obsession with Russia is manipulative, voyeuristic, and distracting from vital issues By Michael M. Barrick OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY, U.S.A. – Here, where it is not Red Square or either end of […]
The Advantages of Free Thinking
Science need not destroy your faith, but its truths can’t be ignored By Isaac Crouch The universe is random, chaotic, mysterious, incomprehensibly vast and possibly infinite. It is an undisputed, […]
Public Education in the Cross Hairs
Confirmation of Betsy DeVos and GOP attacks on N.C. public schools pose an existential threat to public education By Dr. Arthur M. Sherwood and Michael M. Barrick LENOIR, N.C. – […]
