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Military data and mental health reporter Daniel Johnson speaks with 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell on Wednesday, July 8. As part of Johnson’s ongoing reporting into suicide rates and deaths related to mental illness among service members , he discovered that women soldiers not only have significantly higher rates of suicide but higher rates of homicide at the hands of other s...

97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell guest hosts the show on Wednesday, July 8 and shares the latest local news stories. Orange County’s Emergency Services Director shares one main way his staff is learning from the experience of responding to last year’s Tropical Storm Chantal: how to prevent 911 calls from going unanswered during a high volume period. An elected official pu...

UNC law and sports administration professor Barbara Osborne speaks with 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell on Wednesday, July 8. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week in the Little v. Hecox case, saying that statewide bans on transgender women competing in women’s sports do not violate the Constitution, striking a blow to trans rights. Osborne discusses what the ruling does and...

Nick Faber of the “funny punk band” Worthington’s Law stopped by Live & Local this week, following the release of the band’s latest album, “Funnier! Punkier! Bandier!” Visit FunnyPunkBand.com. “Funnier! Punkier! Bandier!” is Worthington’s Law’s fourth full-length album in the last five years, not counting several additional EPs &#8211...

Welcome to  Talking Culture!  In this weekly interview series from 97.9 The Hill WCHL, you’ll hear from writers, performers, musicians and individuals involved in advancing and promoting cultural arts in our community. Talking Culture is proudly sponsored by Duke Graduate Liberal Studies; a 30-hour, self-designed liberal arts master’s program at Duke University, offering an interdisciplinary gradu...

Trending today: A massive cross-cultural study finds that colors don’t actually affect our moods, feelings or emotions. So why do we identify certain colors with certain moods and emotions? Victor offers a couple possible ideas – but the deeper he goes, the more Aaron starts to think we’ve always been associating colors with contradicting emotions in the first place. (Also, Victo...

Wednesday, July 15, you’re invited to the Chapel Hill Public Library at 5:30 for a community conversation on resistance movements in U.S. history, marking 250 years since American independence. Everyone’s invited to come together, eat pizza, and consider which historical resistance movements are most inspiring today. Hosted by Dr. Deborah Stroman, “Liberty Land: 250 Years of Resi...

In today’s news: a longtime school board member says she’s seeking a vacant seat on the Orange County Board of Commissioners. Also: local emergency officials discuss lessons learned from last year’s Tropical Storm Chantal; Gov. Josh Stein signs a budget bill; a judge rules against the UNC professor who was fired after his class was secretly recorded; a judicial panel rules agains...

Orange County Emergency Services Director Kirby Saunders speaks with 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell about the recent anniversary of Tropical Storm Chantal. Emergency responders took on thousands of calls and made dozens of rescues the night of the intense flash flooding. Saunders shares some of his lasting memories from the response, as well as takeaways that the Emergency Services...

97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell shares the latest local headlines on Tuesday, July 7 while filling in for Andrew Stuckey. Gov. Josh Stein signs North Carolina’s newest budget into effect, enacting significant pay raises for public school teachers and prison staffers as part of the first full budget package in nearly three years. Neighborhoods that took on water during Tropical...

Chair of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners Amanda Robertson joins 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell on Tuesday, July 7. With the region passing the first anniversary of Tropical Storm Chantal and its damaging floods, Robertson shares her takeaways from the recovery process and how the county government is working on preparation for future extreme weather. She also details an u...

Hillsborough Mayor Mark Bell speaks with 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell on Tuesday, July 7. Coming off a holiday weekend with a big town-organized festival, Bell shares his impressions and takeaways from the event held on the Fourth of July. With Monday also marking one year since Tropical Storm Chantal’s floods damaged parts of the region, including Hillsborough, the mayor a...

Trending today: Myrtle Beach has a summertime ban on wind-driven shades, like the Shibumi Shade, an increasingly popular beach accessory that was first created by a trio of UNC grads. Myrtle Beach also isn’t alone, leading Victor on a quest to discover why it is that beaches are even considering banning them in the first place. (Aaron thinks it’s all about money.) Also, Aaron gets incr...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision in the case of Trump v. Barbara, overruling the Trump administration and re-affirming that the Fourteenth Amendment does in fact guarantee so-called “birthright citizenship,” conferring the right of U.S. citizenship onto anyone born on U.S. soil. What do we need to know in order to understand that ruling in historical perspectiv...

In today’s news: local residents continue picking up the pieces, one year after their homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Chantal. Also: Gov. Josh Stein prepares to “take action” on the state budget bill; a portion of Country Club Road shuts down for a pipe replacement project; and U.S. House Rep. Valerie Foushee honors the late Jamezetta Bedford on the floor of Congress. 97.9 T...

  Paul Slack, the chief civil rights officer for the Orange County government, joins 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell for “Conversations We Need to Have” on Monday, July 6. Coming off the Fourth of July holiday, the pair talk about what the holiday means for them and the conflicted feelings it generates, both historically and amid heightened political divide. Then, t...

This month, Aaron welcomes Cori Greer-Banks, who heads up Carolina Public Humanities’ Carolina K-12 initiative, providing resources to teachers across the state. Summer is her busy time as teachers use the season for professional development, and she’s just returned from two big trips – one to Asheville and another to Africa – both with a team of North Carolina teachers, gi...

Trending today: a new report finding that older songs (more than 10 years old) are making up a surprisingly high percentage of Spotify’s top 100. Also: Victor suggests that one-hit wonders might be a thing of the past (depending on how you define a ‘one-hit wonder’), and Aaron tries but fails to get Victor to sing “Mr. Brightside.” Want to know what folks are talking...

In today’s news: local businesses discuss their year-long recovery process, on the first anniversary of Tropical Storm Chantal. Also: Chatham County officials recover the body of a teen swimmer on Jordan Lake; a former Orange High School counselor turns herself in on indecent-liberties charges; OWASA enters the next phase of a major water main replacement project on Rosemary Street; and a Ta...

Local musician Perry Owen Wright stopped by Live & Local last week, following the release of his new album “Buried Utilities” – his first new music in 20 years. Listen to the album on Bandcamp. Perry Owen Wright had a successful run in the mid-2000s with a project called The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers. Peaking in 2005 with the acclaimed album “The Mother...

Dr. James Wood This Week: James Wood is currently Professor of Latin American and modern world history at  North Carolina A&T State University . He is the author of  The Society of Equality: Popular Republicanism and Democracy in Santiago de Chile, 1818-1851  and the co-editor of  “ Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations “ , now in its fifth edition...

This week, Dr. Deborah Stroman takes a look at sports around America’s 250th Anniversary. The post July 4, 2026 appeared first on Chapelboro.com .

97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell fills in to share the latest local news stories on Thursday, July 2. With a busy Fourth of July weekend around town, community members have a variety of events to choose from to celebrate community and the founding of the country. Extreme heat conditions may present challenges, though, so the county activates its cooling centers and shares heat resour...

Carrboro Fire Chief Will Potter joins 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell on Thursday, July 2 to discuss the town government and community’s ongoing recovery from Tropical Storm Chantal. With the anniversary of the storm coming up, Potter shares how Carrboro has kept up its services, still faces some challenges in replacing equipment, and takeaways from the emergency response during the...

Chapel Hill Town Council Member Wes McMahon speaks with 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell on Thursday, July 2 as he substitutes for Mayor Jess Anderson. As he enters the halfway point of his first year on the job, McMahon shares his impressions and takeaways from serving in elected office — including the areas that have surprised and excited him the most. He also details ways he&#8217...