Bull City Bully Pulpit

Seems like a great time to resurrect the old local blog. Been spending most of my time at my ScienceBlogs.com gig at Terra Sigillata, so it's always nice to come back and sing the praises of the Bull...

This is kind of a homer version of The Friday Fermentable (from Terra Sigillata), but I think that it has enough international interest that I am putting it here and on the oft-neglected local blog, B...

In a new feature on the Bully Pulpit, I'd like to reprint the best Op-Ed essays from our hometown, Durham Herald-Sun. Since the links expire quickly, within about 10-14 days, I'll put the link here, ...

From the forum of the Trinity Park neighborhood comes this encouraging synopsis by Susan Kaufmann of beginning of the year activities for new Duke students, as sponsored by Durham merchants, neighborh...

Dear Mayor Bell, I read with interest last Saturday's N&O article announcing a major effort to improve the perceived image problem of our great Bull City: "Make !T Durham." But, sir, $105,000 pe...

As a fan of women in science and medicine and father of a little girl, I get periodic updates from one of the country's best academic personal development programs for young female scholars: The Baldw...

Yes, I know that I'm promoting a Raleigh establishment. However, the merger of Helios Coffee and Six String Cafe has my blessing as something that it of wonderful benefit to the greater Triangle music...

Yes, in fact, I had a whole post worked up about the great May 24th issue of The Independent Weekly regarding their cover story, "What's So Scary About Durham?" I figured they might catch some grief ...

I've been dabbling on this post for 3 months or so, partly because I was unsure of my goal or message. I'm still not sure but I know that I just want to tell a story. Learning of journalist Anton Zuik...

As a big fan of acoustic-based music, I had been hoping the David Sardinha would launch a new version of Cary's defunct Six String Café over here in the Bull City, maybe downtown or in the American...

I just saw this link posted by Bora at Science & Politics. A truly heart-warming story about the kind of things that go on at Duke University 99.9% of the time: Patient's Family Says 'Thank You' ...

Cross-posted from Terra Sigillata..... Okay, so this is turning into Bora Zivkovic week at Terra Sigillata. I can't help myself because he is one of the most influential bloggers in my short career....

Welcome to the weekly reader of North Carolina, Tar Heel Tavern! It's been a rough month with the news media here in the Triangle and from the mountains to the ocean, so I asked for stories regarding...

We'll be hosting the Tar Heel Tavern blog carnival here on 30 April 2006. So, I'm shouting out to all NC bloggers to e-mail their submissions to me by Saturday evening, 29 April, at 8 PM EDT (0100 GM...

FYI - the bicycle edition of Tar Heel Tavern #61 is now live at Nicomachus, appropriately a cycling blogger (tagline: "the velorution will not be motorized"). Before this local blog gets rolling, as ...

I was happy to pick up Wednesday's N&O to find my old friend, Ben Bergmann ("the Eggman"), cited in an article on local farmers. Together with Noah Ranells, Ben's Fickle Creek Farm over in Efland...

Having been up most of the night working on a grant proposal, I saw the expected arrests come through just after 5 am. I'd stay tuned to Signifying Nothing for local updates.Bull City Booster

Hodding Carter III, will be interviewed today at noon by Frank Stasio on The State of Things. Carter has a quite notable history having served as a Jimmy Carter campaign manager, advisor, Edward R. M...

Each day, the Duke men's lacrosse team scandal grows so much more disturbing that each new revelation overshadows all of the great things going on in the City of Durham and at Duke University. Toda...

We are huge fans of women's collegiate basketball, particularly the teams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Since we come from Colorado, we are particularly fon...