Head-scratching over exams
Jenkins: The kid, thank goodness, is smart, and a determined student. When I met him, he was 5, and even then possessed a vocabulary that surpassed his...well, when they're 5 years old, do you call them contemporaries?
Small comfort in the 'big time'
Jenkins: Well, the "booster boys," we'll call them, are happy now in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. They've flexed their influence, and helped to banish a couple of loyal alums who fell from favor.
Between the lines downtown
Jenkins: Ohboy. Your correspondent hopes that this will not be the last time he comes to you as a free man, and that hereafter, his offerings in this space will not be known as "prison diaries."
'Waking' up to a dream season
Jenkins:Oh, how we suffered. All those years. A couple of different stadiums. There were little moments of excitement along the way, to be sure. But mostly, growing up as a fan of the Wake Forest College (now university, of course) football teams was...well, an exercise in character-building.
Size 12E with gravy, please
Jenkins:Well, friends, we of this space often turn for wisdom, for life's lessons, for pertinent comparisons of public matters to eternal truths revealed in fiction, to "The Andy Griffith Show."
A short course for a longer life
Jenkins:The classroom is brightly lit, the teachers are efficient and pleasant. And not a single one of the 24 kids, mostly teenagers, wants to be here. But they are here, for a very good reason: No choice was afforded them by their lawyers or the courts.
Caucus call at the Big House?
Jenkins:News item: Powerful U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio, has pleaded guilty to corruption charges, acknowledging that he took care of business, Congress-wise, in return for tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from now-infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
On the scene at the Geddings trial
Tuesday morning, seventh floor, the Terry Sanford federal building on Raleigh's New Bern Avenue. It's shortly before 9 a.m., and the fraud trial of Kevin Geddings is set to resume momentarily.
Up the wall with the GOP
Jenkins:Have you ever seen a kid throw a tantrum, and it escalates from tears to tears with the red face to tears with the red face and the screaming to tears with the red face and the screaming and the pounding on the floor?
Has ol' Kevin been forgot?
Jenkins:There probably aren't going to be a lot of hugs and high-fives during Kevin Geddings' trial in federal court here on multiple felony counts of fraud.
Feeling Greenville with envy
Jenkins:First, a confession. Your correspondent has been known to participate in that sport known as "South Carolina bashing," wherein those of us in North Carolina, a place we feel is far superior to any other, sniff a bit and then trade barbs.
Speaking of birthdays, Fran turns 10
Jenkins:It was Sept. 4, 1996, the eve of my birthday, and the middle of what I like to call the Jenkins Birthday Season.
Vernon Robinson on the line...
Jenkins:Usually, most folks ignore phone message from politicians. They're all pretty much the same. Likewise is the reaction to callers who want you to participate in a poll, wherein the questions are a little loaded.
Isley to the White House?
Jenkins:I don't want him even to mess around with the state Senate or the governor's office or anything. Forget the stairsteps. Right to the top, baby, for Raleigh City Councillor Philip Isley.
A street's glories, past and present
Jenkins:Well, now I'm not saying it was a Neil Armstrong moment or anything. But planting a foot on the dark asphalt of Fayetteville Street for the first time in 30 years, kinda grinding the front part of a shoe on it, did feel a little exploratory.
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