Bitten by a good watchdog
There are a lot of people on the list of "folks you do not want knocking on your door." A sheriff's deputy, if he's holding papers and the handcuffs have been removed from the locked position on the belt. The Internal Revenue Service.
The spirit, challenged, wins out
Well, I guess this is one of those Christmases that kind of tests a fellow.
The worth of good teachers
Oh, many a politician has put hand to cheek to worry about school teachers. Half in North Carolina are leaving the profession within five years. They have too much paperwork. They need more parental support. They want respect.
Thanksgiving, from all sides
On this Thanksgiving, in a still-mysterious land far away, young Americans will be in harm's way. Perhaps a new father will hear a bit of baby talk by long distance. Or a son will speak with his father and mother on their first Thanksgiving apart.
The state lottery, starring...
The startup of the new state lottery has of late turned into a soap opera with more twists than "All My Children." But it's more akin to one of those situation comedies than to depressing drama.
The many mazes of Music City
At the airport, getting prepared to begin the undignified process of being inspected and patted down and buzzed and beeped and what-all before being permitted to take my place on the airplane as yet another 40-pound sack in a 20-pound seat, I had to
Bad old days with the speaker ban
Professor Gorham "Hap" Kindem of UNC-Chapel Hill is getting a few kudos from highfalutin places for his documentary, "Beyond the Wall."
Not the end of the old homeplace
Sentiment has its place, but it's not in structures.
Molly Broad earned a state's thanks
Molly Corbett Broad, the retiring president who came to us from the California higher education ranks eight years ago, has known her share of naysayers in that time.
'Moving' perspective from Katrina
It is said that moving is right up there when it comes to life's traumas. Over the past couple of months, your correspondent embarked on, and completed, the transition from the old family homestead into new quarters.
Sixty years of lovin' Andy
So I am sitting with this silver-haired gentleman, and he is talking about music, and how important it is to kids to have it, and stick with it, and how parents and friends have to encourage them.
Looking for an Uncle Ralph
As pages went, I was a sprout. Most of those who ran errands for North Carolina lawmakers in the summer of 1965 were 15, 16, maybe a little older. It would be early September before I would even become a teenager.
Yet to come for the Fab Five ...
Come on and admit it. We like to see a handful of folks standing against the majority and gumming up the works, particularly if they're on our side and they're battling power brokers who are accustomed to getting their way.
Doing the deals with Basnight
For a fellow who is very much a product of Jones Street, a master of the game if you will, Marc Basnight can often be seen as a populist.
In the heat of the moment...
There really is a sure-fire solution to the stupendous stalemate now in view on Jones Street, where the General Assembly's Democrats and Republicans appear ready to stay forever in pursuit of a solution to the state budget.
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