To the bank with 2003 predictions
Every year about this time, the ground hereabouts begins to swell with demands from a grateful readership for the views of this space with regard to what will happen in the state and nation in the coming 12 months.
Facing the music in Chapel Hill
I don't know if it was on the tour the first time Chancellor James Moeser visited the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but after Monday it's safe to say he now knows where the woodshed is.
A warm time in the old town tonight
Some people kid my friend Thad Woodard, president of the North Carolina Bankers Association, about the fact that to whatever project he may be involved in at any given time, he brings an enthusiasm that spit the bridle out Way Back There.
For Baker, all's not said and done
His friends wonder if he's bitter.
Clouds hovering at Gardner-Webb
This could be an important day at a trustees meeting at Gardner-Webb University in the foothills town of Boiling Springs, where distress from the community, faculty, student, alumni and donors has been roiling for weeks.
At Gardner-Webb, profiles in courage
It is really too serene a place to become a battlefield. Boiling Springs is a small town nestled in the foothills of Cleveland County, 50 miles west of Charlotte. At the literal center of town is Gardner-Webb University, or "the college" as it will be forever known to townspeople, a school proudly affiliated with Baptists that has realized many ambitions since the days when it was Boiling Springs Junior College -- a virtually new campus, expanded courses of study and an athletics program with aspirations for glory. (At this point, a personal note: My late grandfather, known in the community as the Preacher Jenkins, served for a time as president of what is now Gardner-Webb University during the Great Depression, while also pastoring the Boiling Springs Baptist Church. A multitude of family members hold degrees from the school.)
Dole and Bowles in a pitchers' duel
At first, you don't know what's going on. You were thinking profound thoughts about whether President Josiah Bartlet of "The West Wing" is gonna be able to win re-election over this Ritchie fellow from Florida, and then there it is.
Aunt Ethel has all the answers, Honey
Last week, New in Town explored just what it would be like if dearly departed Abby were replaced by "Ask the Yankee." I shudder at the thought.
Sen. Clinton shakes the money tree
The only question is how much I can get for the car.
Elvis, and others, who salt the earth
It was, I thought in my sanctimonious fashion, a chance to engage in a little social anthropology.
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