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It was the end of a warm fall day, sometime back in the early ’90s. I stood in an asphalt parking lot in Greensboro, facing a temporary stage …
Taxes are almost always a big part of political elections. Questions about who pays taxes, whether taxes are too high or too low, and complexi…
Few things in our benighted nation are more pathetic than the spectacle of Trump toadies trying to worm their way back to some semblance of re…
Listen before you speak.
Voters and media alike, beware: We may not know the winners next Tuesday night. We may not know until all eligible absentee ballots are counte…
RALEIGH — Of all the important electoral contests on North Carolina’s ballot, our General Assembly races will be among the most consequential.
Our information universe clearly has problems.
I thought I would take a little break this week and dig back into the archives for a column few people read and no one remembers. It was back …
If Donald Trump was a movie scene, he’d be the fiery train wreck in “The Fugitive,” and U.S. Marshal Tommy Lee Jones would be cruising through…
Last week I passed by a small group of people outside a Planned Parenthood building in Philadelphia praying in the rain, heads bowed and expos…
Does North Carolina have a godfather?
Perhaps the most overlooked elections, ranking just slightly ahead of Soil and Water Conversation District Commissioners, are those of judges.…
RALEIGH — The person who manages most of state government’s financial assets — the $107 billion pension fund for state and local employees, fo…
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This is a year of double milestones: my mother’s house turns 75 and (as of Oct. 30) she will have been living there for 50 years.
The ceasefire is over.
We see the well-recognized pink ribbon a lot in Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October. It symbolizes many things: the fight for a cure, the w…
When Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate back a couple of months ago, it was historic.
What do President Donald Trump and the lead character of Nicholas Sparks’ latest book have in common?
RALEIGH — North Carolina, like most of the country, has become increasingly polarized in our political thinking and behavior. But what does th…
Presidential debates are outdated. They’ve outlived their sell-by date. They should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Just how “free” should a “free press” be to report on the illness and condition of a sitting president during a national health emergency?
One of the perks of being a small-town journalist in western North Carolina is the opportunity to work the Bigfoot beat.
My electronic key fob is putting more mileage on ME than on the car.
We both love America?
Karma (noun): The sum of a person’s actions decide that person’s fate …The intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that in…
I know that social media is not the real world, just as Kim Kardashian is not your average working mother. But we have all started to spend pa…
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