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One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the arrival of “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”
What really happened to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in the New World? The same Virginia Dare whom I suggested recen…
While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law School professor Gene Nichol has been trav…
2019 was only four days old when we got the announcement the U.S. Supreme Court was going to hear arguments on North Carolina’s redistricting …
RALEIGH — Over the past eight years, conservative lawmakers have done much to constrain the excesses, expenses, and abuses of governmental pow…
A couple of weeks ago I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019 “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”
Imagine travelling from Raleigh to Charlotte in about 22 minutes; not by train, plane or car, but instead in a pod, transported through an alm…
An FBI investigation of President Donald Trump should surprise no one who has followed current events in recent years. As we learned from the …
Last Friday marked the 46th annual March for Life, an event to celebrate life and honor it as a sacred and precious gift from God. This incred…
Chapel Hill is still stunned.
There is a secret about North Carolina’s early colonial days, something even more disturbing and horrifying than traditional slavery.
Would you like to know why U.S. sanctions against companies owned by Russian billionaire and businessman Oleg Deripaska are being lifted?
Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back …
Do you remember the important North Carolina connection to “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” one of America’s most loved novels?
How did a close election in the Ninth Congressional District of North Carolina lead to this column?
Carol Folt’s swift departure from the chancellorship of UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks ago and her just as swift hiring as the president of the U…
“The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhe…
“There should be an historic plaque in Chapel Hill honoring George Bush.”
“Because he was a traitor and a pirate,” East Carolina University professor and leading North Carolina public historian, Larry Tise, explained…
What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month?
Who will succeed Margaret Spellings as president of the UNC System?
Can’t you say anything good about President Donald Trump?
Why would I ask you to read from a column I wrote almost 30 years ago?
When H. G. Jones died on October 14, our state lost a key connection to its history as well as a prime and positive, but all too rare, example…
Besides circulation the most complaints I get is about the editorial page. So today’s Friday Five is about questions and complaints about poli…
I am looking for iconic North Carolina eateries for a new book.
Last month’s flooding from Hurricane Florence brought such bad news to New Bern and its neighboring cities, towns and communities.
“You’d better be careful,” my wonderful seventh grade teacher, Miss Winifred Potts, preached to my class more than 65 years ago.
Like all North Carolinians I am worrying about the flooding causing heart-rending damage throughout our state following Hurricane Florence.
How did Carrboro writer and teacher Georgann Eubanks become the leader of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association?
Anna Beer could cost North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars.
He is like the houseguest who stays too long, and then when he’s finally gone, you miss him a little bit.
“This may be the last time we get together like this.”
The Great American Read, a PBS series, is in the process of selecting America’s best-loved novel.
I thought I was so smart back in 2016 when I wrote that Democrats, who were confident they would defeat Donald Trump, should be pulling for hi…
Was there a connection between the 1950s Nigerian movement for independence and the civil rights movement in Winston-Salem?
When I was in France last week, Anthony Bourdain, also in France working on his popular and influential food and culture program for CNN, took…
You did not get to a parade or service on Memorial Day. You can’t get to the Normandy beaches this week for the anniversary of D-Day. You are …
“The Garden is Open” sign is still there.
Former state senate leader Marc Basnight’s restaurant near Manteo evokes two of my favorite things: politics and people coming together for go…
Here is a newspaper headline from last week: “A 'palace' in NC: One of the state's largest homes is for sale.”
