North Carolina
A WRAL report on a recent study out of the University of Wisconsin has Wake County as the healthiest county in the state.
Orange County placed a respectable second overall with first place finishes in the categories of health behaviors, clinical care, and social and economic factors and second place finishes in morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, our overall score was depressed by an eighth-place finish in physical environment. I guess we know where we have our work cut out for us.
The Orange County scores are at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/north-carolina/2013/orange/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot/by-rank
Chad Johnston is the director of Chapel Hill's grassroots public access station The People's Channel. Not many people truly know the scope of the contributions he has made toward democratizing media both in Orange County and in Orange County. Sadly he's leaving us to run a station in a bigger community. The Independent Weekly has a wonderful cover story about him this week, and the public is invited to a potluck to say farewell to Chad tonight at the TPC studio on Elliot Road. If you can't attend in person, you can watch it live on TV!
I highly recommend reading the Indy article which gives a sense of how Chad has gone to bat to protect community media at the state level, as well as the thankless work of building and sustaining capacity for grassroots voices to be heard both in Orange and Durham Counties.
The Daily Tar Heel has another editorial today criticizing Governor Pat McCrory for his remarks about education in last night's state of the state address.
The DTH is right to criticize McCrory -- his remarks were wrong and show that he's learned nothing from his recent debacle concerning his views on liberal arts education.
However, I'm still waiting for the DTH to directly address their endorsement of McCrory in the fall. They've said in a previous editorial criticizing the governor:
If the plans for higher education McCrory advocated during his campaign are ultimately going to come down to a gutting of the University, then this editorial board regrets having given him its endorsement.
But this isn't a full retraction of their endorsement. It's sidestepping the fact that they endorsed a candidate -- and actively encouraged students to vote for a candidate -- who is directly opposed to what most students at UNC-Chapel Hill stand for with regards to higher education.
What: Community Town Hall Meeting with Greenpeace Energy
Expert Mike Johnson
Where: AARP Raleigh office, 1511 Sunday Drive Raleigh, NC
27607
When: Tuesday, November 13th, 7pm
Mike Johnson is on a state wide tour, talking about the possibilities for a
cheaper, cleaner, renewable energy future for North Carolina. Mike brings 10 years of
experience including stints at the Illinois Solar Energy Association and City
of Chicago’s
Department of Environment.
Mike will discuss the recent Greenpeace report, Charting the Correction Course, produced in association with
leading energy software company Ventyx. The report details how North Carolinians could save more than $108 billion
dollars over the next twenty years if Duke Energy switched to cleaner, cheaper
renewable energy.
Date:
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location:
AARP Raleigh office, 1511 Sunday Drive Raleigh, NC 27607
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