Psychiatrist hits teen, keeps his job
Dr. Ralph Berg, a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, is still on the job despite an internal investigation that concluded he hit a mentally ill teenager who has developmental disabilities.
Too late to kvetch now
Michael Biesecker: One of the joys of being a newspaper reporter is that you often hear from people mad at you for writing what other people did or said.
A trip down the river
Michael Biesecker: One of the good things about being a newspaper reporter is that I can never be sure exactly where a day at the office might lead.
Tough choices lie ahead
Michael Biesecker:The residential building boom may have slumped in much of the rest of the country, but not in Wake County.
Officials: supersize school
Aging Wake Forest-Rolesville High School could soon undergo a transformation.
Offers to help are telling
Michael Biesecker:Ask about North Raleigh and few would probably conjure up images up of rutted dirt roads, open sewers and grinding poverty on a par with the Third World.
It can't open too soon
When it opens in a few months, Wake Technical Community College's new Northern Wake Campus is expected to be immediately packed.
