What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month?
Lessons for Democrats from the recent elections
D.G. Martin
RALEIGH — When it comes to giving parents more control over where their children attend elementary and secondary school, North Carolina has be…
“Because he was a traitor and a pirate,” East Carolina University professor and leading North Carolina public historian, Larry Tise, explained…
RALEIGH — Whether your frame of reference is a country, a government, a business, or your own household, being better off in the long run requ…
“There should be an historic plaque in Chapel Hill honoring George Bush.”
“The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhe…
RALEIGH — In the January 1953 edition of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, a fan of the genre from Texas, Marilyn Venable, made her …
While many are fretting over the just-right Christmas present, tackling last-minute holiday details or preparing for years-end, many of North …
As a nation, we came together last week to say farewell to a beloved patriot and hero, President George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the U…
What is a good book I can give a friend?
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…
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.”
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…
If it’s got a good beat and easy to dance to, it might save a life.
I read a recent article that was on the Independent Tribune site titled “Immigrants make significant impact on North Carolina” and I felt comp…
RALEIGH — Democrats achieved significant victories this year in the “inner suburbs” of Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and North Carolina’s ot…
As a young boy I remember hearing the stories about that first Thanksgiving, when the Pilgrims and Indians feasted together. The romanticized …
Who will succeed Margaret Spellings as president of the UNC System?
The 2018 midterm was one of the most interesting elections held in our state. While there wasn’t the “blue wave” many had predicted, this was …
Bill Friday was right. Friday, the founding president of the 16 campus University of North Carolina System, fought with then-Governor Bob Scot…
Can’t you say anything good about President Donald Trump?
In their 2015 song "Stressed Out," which got an astonishing 1.5 billion views on YouTube, the band Twenty One Pilots had a line lamenting stud…
The choice is painfully simple — literally.
With election day fast approaching, an evaluation of our political climate and how it impacts us as individuals is relevant. That’s a subject …
Why would I ask you to read from a column I wrote almost 30 years ago?
We talk a lot about today’s tribal, partisan politics, where the camps seem to migrate farther and farther to the right or left, screaming at …
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…
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I would have been much duller had I not had access to books at an early age.
Amazon’s rise to become an ecommerce powerhouse and its profound impact on our shopping habits are well documented. The company has contribute…
Many are saying that the November 6 elections are all about Trump, a referendum either affirming or refuting his leadership. Our president cas…
I am looking for iconic North Carolina eateries for a new book.
In the aftermath of Justice Brett Kavanaugh being confirmed to the Supreme Court, left-wing writers and commentators revealed the depth of the…
About this time each year we looked forward to receiving the Sears Wish Book. This wonderful catalogue was about three inches thick, packed wi…
RALEIGH — Do political movements ever really accomplish anything? The English writer G.K. Chesterton had his doubts. “The whole modern world h…
By the time you read this, a Senate vote on whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh will serve on the Supreme Court may have been held. A final vote was…
Editor’s Note: Published reports now say the photo is not Christine Blasey Ford.
My daughter plays travel softball for the R.C. Swarm out of Salisbury, in which Bradford Park in Huntersville hosted a two-day tournament for …
40-plus new U.S. Constitutional Amendments have written and published on a website: ItsWeThePeople.com to help America solve its dysfunctional…
