Last week, I spoke (virtually, of course) with a group of journalism students about how the First Amendment relates to, and protects, the work…
At the thrift store, masked up, hands sanitized, I moved carefully down the aisles, trying to keep 6 feet between the other treasure hunters and me.
Mercy Fund Animal Rescue, of Marion, has many precious pets for families or individuals to adopt. Its mission is to save the lives of stray an…
Editor's note: Slim Randles had open heart surgery in June, so recovering was a little higher on his list of priorities than writing new colum…
Do Black lives matter in a good, almost all-white neighborhood in Raleigh?
The calendar says 2020, but some say it’s really 2030. Huh? Did we suddenly lose a decade? I, for one, certainly hope not, because that would …
It’s simple math. A successful political coalition is built on the principle of addition, not subtraction. Basically, you welcome anyone who w…
I have very good reasons to be worried about catching the coronavirus.
Warning! The following column contains what some readers may consider to be objectionable (and absolutely accurate) gender stereotypes! Offend…
The message is clear: Do not plant free Chinese mystery seeds. Also, do not eat free Chinese mystery seeds. In addition, do not feed free Chin…
Dud and I had just about finished solving the problems on page one and were about to start solving sports dilemmas when Bert mumbled something…
Teachers are now complaining about having to go back and do what they profess to love: Teach in a classroom.
For more than 20 years UNC TV's "North Carolina Bookwatch" has broadcast great conversations with North Carolina-connected authors.
Note: It's hot. Too hot to come up with a new column, so please enjoy this retooled one from way back in '98, when I wasn’t wearing a mask, I …
Let’s begin today with Joe Biden, who is far too often trumped by the tumultuous roar of the MAGA train wreck. Biden, who currently leads Trum…
Can we all agree that the kids living in our biggest cities don’t get a good education?
From police to portraits, from statues to school buildings, Americans are taking a new look at our racial — and racist — past. One legacy of t…
For the virus-plagued season, Major League Baseball has come up with special rules that players will find even more challenging than a sharp s…
Much of the nation is experiencing a prolonged heat wave, so of course your humble columnist counterintuitively conjures up warm memories to c…
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Move over, murder hornet. 2020 has another deadly abomination, and its name is plague squirrel.
When the new college opened in the next town — a somewhat larger town than ours — our folks began wondering if making the 30-minute drive to c…
With cases of COVID-19 on the rise in the state of Texas, and Halloween just around the corner, Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed an executive …
I believe I have discovered the most successful diet in the history of mankind. It does not involve excessive exercise, swallowing pills, taki…
The other day I mentioned to my son Cameron something I heard the great economist Thomas Sowell say.
I can’t recall the last time I wrote or received a handwritten letter — but it’s time to send such letters again.
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