Former Secretary of State Rufus Edmisten reflects on the 40th anniversary of Watergate.
Modified: 05/24/12 07:16:57 AMComment: Occupy Raleigh breaks camp, but the message was delivered.
Modified: 05/10/12 04:50:40 AMIn Jim Jenkins’ April 19 column, he really went on a binge about what’s so terrible about Mitt Romney running for president. Most of his tirade was about the fact that Romney is a wealthy man and therefore couldn’t possibly have the common touch with the common man.
Modified: 04/26/12 11:26:50 AMI really have no problem with our next president being a proven rich, successful businessman. Jim Jenkins (April 19 column) seems to think that the South and particularly North Carolina voters are more attuned to the good old boy Southern politician he or she can better relate to and thus have more faith in being able to pull us out of the quagmire that this country finds itself. I have more faith in this state’s people to make the wise and thoughtful choice and vote for the person who can best lead this country.
Modified: 04/26/12 11:25:50 AMIt is such a small place, Flint Hill, that you expect to hear the echoes in those surrounding hills. The echoes, yes, from more than 80 years ago, when that community, 10 miles west of Shelby (which for those not up on North Carolina geography, is 45 miles west of Charlotte) was visited, the legend goes, directly by the Almighty. He reached down to a 4-year-old boy who had just lost his father and sprinkled him with the gift of genius.
Modified: 04/05/12 03:57:41 AMJust the other day, we were up in Shelby, having a chopped plate at Red Bridges’ barbecue, and at least six or eight people came over and asked excitedly, “Listen, we’re torn on these gay marriage and voter ID issues. We’ve been awaiting word from Raleigh: How do the Wake commissioners stand?” We just stayed focused on the cobbler.
Modified: 03/22/12 06:40:52 AMJenkins: Even some of the great icons of American commerce, challenged by competitors using cheap foreign labor and materials, now have their shelves lined with merchandise from China and elsewhere. Some of those icons are even owned by overseas investors.
Modified: 03/07/12 05:57:55 PMJenkins: The first time I saw Guy Munger it was 1973, and he was standing in the middle of the old News & Observer newsroom, where typewriters still created a din of sound, cigarette smoke still filled the air, and people screamed "Copy!"
Modified: 02/23/12 04:27:15 AMJenkins: Being a waitress carries little glamor and a multitude of annoyances, most caused by customers and long hours on hard floors.
Modified: 02/15/12 06:21:15 PMJenkins: The historic principle of building a wall between "church and state" goes back in large part to a pretty credible fellow named Thomas Jefferson.
Modified: 02/08/12 02:52:52 PMJenkins: The call came from Rufus Edmisten, former North Carolina attorney general and secretary of state. His tone was somber, ominous almost. It was to inform me that I had been tapped for membership in the Wake County Chitlin' Club.
Modified: 02/02/12 04:42:02 AMJenkins: Fellow Republicans are fretful indeed these days, with the race for the presidential nomination having turned into what a few commentators have called a "circular firing squad." The question, after Newt Gingrich's take-no-prisoners, brawling win in the South Carolina primary, is not just, "Who will win?" but "Will the nomination be worth having?" We will tell you now that it will be, as you shall see from our optimistic prognostication.
Modified: 01/25/12 06:04:19 PMJenkins: Everyone, everywhere knows them. The star athletes of high school, kings of the campus they were, strolling the halls in their letter sweaters, cheerleaders on their arms, envied by all who were not them. Which was pretty much 98 percent of the school.
Modified: 01/12/12 05:02:18 AMJenkins: The Fredericksburg battlefield site in Virginia is for those who revere the Lost Cause of the Confederacy a spine-tingling stop among the historic markers of the Civil War.
Modified: 01/04/12 05:57:05 PMJenkins: It rises fairly suddenly on the horizon as one maneuvers the maze of highways that grow more complicated as one nears Washington.
Modified: 12/21/11 05:35:45 PM
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