North Carolina
Today: Developmental Disabilities (DD) Advocacy and Education Day
There are promising signs that the House members are developing revenue packages to restore funding to some of the proposed budget cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Significant budget cuts are being considered by the North Carolina Legislature that will dramatically affect services being provided to some of the state’s most [...]
New Way To Get Around This Weekend
It’s the weekend and about now we are all unwinding from the work week trying to figure out what we’re going to do, who we’re going to see and how we’re going to get there.
Well, if you plan to stick around Raleigh this weekend, I have the answer to one of those questions.
Last Friday, [...]
Good food, good times and great company at The Pit restaurant
First, let me start out by saying that I am still stuffed from last night’s barbeque experience and somehow my mouth is still watering for more.
I love food, I love people, and I love new experiences so I have always been intrigued by Travel Channel and Food Channel show hosts. I’ve always wanted to learn [...]
Man vs. Food makes a “Pit” stop in downtown Raleigh tonight
Man VS. Food on The Travel Channel
Adam Richman, host of The Travel Channel’s show Man v. Food will making challenging himself to a heaping plate of some hog at downtown Raleigh’s The Pit Authentic Barbeque Restaurant tonight.
Richman will chat with local barbecue legend Ed Mitchell to learn to some barbecue techniques, throw a [...]
Duke Children’s Hospital Teddy Bear Ball bring Warm and Fuzzy Fun To The Triangle
My friend Amanda works for Speedway Children’s Charities in Charlotte. She knows that I work on youth and education outreach at NBC 17 and she thought of me when she had some extra seats at her table to the Duke Teddy Bear Ball this past weekend.
Friday evening at the Durham Marriott Civic Center in support [...]
Are States UNITED during elections?
As the time to close polls during this important election near, I am noticing a pattern in the frequency of problems that voters have experienced today at the polls…confusion, poor planning, inadequate training, precinct resources, staff and technology glitches seem to be a reoccurring problem across the country during each election.
I remember having heard about [...]
NC Women braved the bad weather in hopes of becoming the next MISS/MRS NC Beauties
This weekend I judged my first beauty pageant, the MISS/MRS NC Beauties Pageant in Raleigh.
I have been a contestant in pageants before, but never recognized the challenges that judges face when holding the future of these women’s pageant careers in your hands.
Pageants are serious business. Although some think of pageants in a negative light, and [...]
Tookie’s a tease…But i’ll wait for you!
Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love — maybe i’m even addicted to – chicken salad. If I don’t have a fix at least once a week, I get cranky. My top 2 favorite chicken salads in town are at Village Deli and Tookie’s Grill. My friend Allison teased me with the idea of the delectable [...]
Operation holiday weekend.
While the majority of my friends are reliving college spring break 1998, I have taken the weekend to catch up on some sleep, personal reading, good food and to visit with family and close friends. I will feel much better when the work week rolls around, but this morning as I began mentally preparing for the [...]
Blog Carolinas a Success
On Friday, I attended the Blog Carolinas Social Media conference in Research Triangle Park. There were over 100 RSVP’s for the event, but only a portion of those showed up. I was pleased to have gotten some more insight into the social media world, which seems to continue evolving among the diverse range of individuals, organizations [...]
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