Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

Trending today: a lineup of college basketball’s craziest names, including the dad joke to end all dad jokes. Michael Koh fills in for Victor.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck recaps the day’s news, from local government to business developments to UNC sports. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s daily news reports, which you can hear live during “This Morning with Aaron Keck” every weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.

In today’s news: UNC men’s basketball hires Jim Tanner as its first-ever general manager – and gives Hubert Davis a 2-year contract extension. Also: the State House passes two bills; more young voters register as independents; the pendulum begins to swing back left in U.S. public opinion; UNC places first in the nation in Fulbright scholars; and several Tar Heel athletes earn individual honors.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck recaps the day’s news, from local government to business developments to UNC sports. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s daily news reports, which you can hear live during “This Morning with Aaron Keck” every weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.

97.9 The Hill’s Andrew Stuckey fills in for Aaron Keck, and presents the morning news. Included in this edition of the news, we hear a story on how new policies from the Trump administration have put a chill research funding at UNC. We hear from Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee on the opening of the Drakeford Library Complex. In sports, UNC Men’s Basketball made it four in a row with a road win at Florida State, and more.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

Every other Monday, Aaron is joined at 8:30 a.m. by Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, for a longstanding regular segment called “What We’re Thinking,” looking at recent survey numbers and discussing what they tell us about American public opinion – election-related and otherwise.

This week Tom talks with Andrew Stuckey, filling in for Aaron Keck. Tom discusses recent polls from Iowa and Pennsylvania that show incumbent republicans in deep holes already. He discusses historical cycles in electoral politics, why it might be good to regulate your political news intake, and more.

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Are you looking for romantic date-night ideas in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and the greater Triangle community? Memorable restaurants, cultural experiences, special events, great places to get outdoors? Every Friday morning at 8:30, Aaron Keck and his husband Brad Bednar go on 97.9 The Hill and offer their recommendations during “Date Night” on This Morning with Aaron Keck. Click here to listen back to all their past segments – and tune in to This Morning every Friday at 8:30 to hear “Date Night” live on the air.

Aaron recently got a chance to check out UNC’s new “Priceless Gems” exhibit at Wilson Library, with famous artifacts from the university’s history. With that in mind: what’s a good date-night spot where you can be surrounded by classic artifacts from our community’s history? Brad suggests an iconic 100-plus-year-old establishment, while Aaron leans into personal history.

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Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

Filling in for Victor and following in his footsteps, Michael Koh devotes today’s segment to a personal rant against QR codes – after going to a trivia night where participants had to use QR codes to provide their answers. (Why is this trending? A graveyard in Europe is investigating after someone tagged a bunch of graves with QR codes – which direct you to a website that gives basic information about the person buried there.)

Also, “What’s Trending” gets a sponsor. Thanks, Dynamic Electric!

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck recaps the day’s news, from local government to business developments to UNC sports. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s daily news reports, which you can hear live during “This Morning with Aaron Keck” every weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.

In today’s news: a rundown of closures and delays after Wednesday’s snow, and a deep dive into UNC’s unsung statkeepers. Also: a return to normal for Chapel Hill next week; a public-records lawsuit against UNC; another move in the legal fight over a State Supreme Court seat; another road win for Tar Heel women’s basketball; and a look ahead at another busy weekend in UNC sports.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron look back at historical inventors who were also geniuses when it came to marketing their new products – like the duo who invented the first toothpick-making machine and the man who developed modern-day lawn tennis. Also this week in history: children begin getting inoculated with Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood joins Aaron with an update on this week’s winter weather – and its impact on the roads. There were numerous crashes on Wednesday, including a 53-car pileup on the interstate that left one woman dead – and Blackwood says road conditions remain extremely treacherous, and will continue to be so throughout the day Thursday (and likely into Friday as well). His advice: stay off the roads, if you’re at all able to avoid it.

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Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

Filling in for Victor, Michael Koh joins Roy Williams in taking shots at Doug Gottlieb, the sports radio host-turned-college basketball coach who is (to put it mildly) not having a good year in his first season at UW-Green Bay.

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