John Drescher columns from Raleigh, NC

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Drescher: Feisty Baptist editor was one of a kind

R.G. Puckett, Editor of the Biblical Recorder, a Baptist state newspaper.

R.G. "Gene" Puckett was a verbal pugilist who enjoyed a good argument. Puckett, a man who enjoyed conflict, probably reveled in the split vote that installed him as editor of the Biblical Recorder. He was not for everybody. Nor did he want to be.

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JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: Berger has a bold tax plan for NC

Our state tax code is out of date. North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger's bodacious plan will start a fierce debate about who and what should be taxed.
JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: Egypt’s Jon Stewart gets the last laugh

An N.C. State student says the Arab world’s top television comedian has gotten the best of Egyptian President Morsi.
JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: Baseball players raise money for young cancer patients

Duke played UNC in baseball last weekend. After the final game late Sunday afternoon every player and every coach from both teams sat down in chairs in front of the UNC dugout and had their heads shaved to raise money for local children's hospitals and for cancer research.
JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: UNC’s Tom Ross might yearn for Davidson

The president of the UNC system, who used to lead Davidson College, is fighting state budget cuts
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Drescher: N&O’s Price reporting from Afghanistan

Veteran reporter and NC native Jay Price has traveled to 50 countries and reported from seven.
JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: In Sledge case, judge dropped the ball

For 20 years, inmate Joseph Sledge asked for DNA testing. That should have happened years ago.
JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: Dean Smith read widely about basketball and life; Bzdelik shuns sports news

Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik avoids reading about his team. Former UNC coach Dean Smith read widely.
LOCAL/STATE

Drescher: Barry Farber still on the air at 82

UNC graduate Barry Farber, considered the dean of American talk radio, says he’s having too much fun to retire
LOCAL/STATE

Drescher: Eve Carson and the Carolina Way

Spurred by the death of UNC student body president Eve Carson, faculty member Jock Lauterer starts a newspaper in the community where one of her killers lived.
JOHN DRESCHER

Drescher: Raleigh group shows how to succeed in Haiti

Much of the aid to Haiti has been ineffective, a new book says. But Raleigh-based Hearts and Hands for Haiti is making a difference.

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The Editors' Blog

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Triangle journalist and big thinker Fiona Morgan, an associate in research at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy, (man, that's tough...
Posted 05/15/2013 07:57:56 PM
The Associated Press phone records

Last May, the Associated Press ran a story about how the U.S. thwarted the plot of an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen to blow up a U.S.-bound plane with a bomb that was designed to be undetectable. We...
Posted 05/15/2013 12:07:09 PM
Sorting out the numbers on N.C. film incentives

In a letter to the editor today in our print edition, film industry exec Bill Vassar challenges a couple of points in J. Andrew Curliss' article last week on the growing cost of the state'...
Posted 05/08/2013 12:05:05 PM