North Carolina’s most important emergency is not the next federal government shutdown. Nor is it a fake national emergency on the nation’s southern border.
The real barbecue crisis
1 of 2
CBS Late Night host Stephen Corbert, a South Carolina native, is once again attacking North Carolina barbecue.
D.G. Martin
The request was for me to talk to an audience about how to conduct civil, meaningful and honest discussions among people with different faiths…
Last week, the world watched as President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union Address. In his speech, the President highlight…
RALEIGH — Friar Laurence has the best of intentions. But in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the friar’s well-intended interventions do…
Would you like to know why U.S. sanctions against companies owned by Russian billionaire and businessman Oleg Deripaska are being lifted?
RALEIGH — If the most important factor determining the welfare of workers is the growth rate of the economy, that has policy implications that…
The proposed DMV move brings to mind one of the old Three Stooges comedies, the one where one of the zany trio says, “I’ve cut this board thre…
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 TV game show Family Feud? It was good fun as one family competes with another for cash prizes, but we all know that real l…
Do you remember the important North Carolina connection to “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” one of America’s most loved novels?
8 things we learned in the 9th District hearings
With a clear-eyed perspective on my place in politics (I don’t have one) this column is intended to give advice to the Democrat Party as it at…
We all share the same goal to end gun violence in this country. But in the course of this debate, House Democrats say they want to “do somethi…
How did a close election in the Ninth Congressional District of North Carolina lead to this column?
Here’s a good news-bad news story that needs a happy ending. The good news is that as of January our state’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent…
From the opening moments of Apollo 11, as a missile crawler-transporter is delivering a Saturn rocket to its launch pad, viewers know that som…
RALEIGH — In the twilight of his political career, Ronald Reagan made the media rounds to discuss his administration, legacy, and unfinished b…
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…
I am looking for iconic North Carolina eateries for a new book.
Like all North Carolinians I am worrying about the flooding causing heart-rending damage throughout our state following Hurricane Florence.
Billy Graham loved Bridges barbecue in Shelby, his family's friend Sally Pereira told Charlotte Observer reporter Bruce Henderson for an artic…
You forgot somebody, didn’t you?
Some people fall in love with bridges, as in the late Robert James Waller’s “The Bridges of Madison County,” the best-selling romance novel fr…
How about a new holiday that would support North Carolina’s “First in Freedom” slogan and, at the same time, call attention to our pride in ou…
