The book sits there in the middle of a stack: “Wilmington’s Lie” by David Zucchino.
When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. took the office as the nation’s 46th president, my focus immediately changed from the previous administration.…
RALEIGH — As of Jan. 18, North Carolina has received about a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Nearly 330,000 of those doses have been injec…
As an old speechwriter, I’m a close reader of political speeches. Especially important speeches, like Gov. Roy Cooper’s inaugural address.
My mother tried her best to teach her children to see danger. To always be prepared for it. To never let it catch us unaware. To be ready at a…
Public schools serve all students. Period. Affluent students have as much right to attend as students living below the poverty line.
I'm taking a knee for America.
Way back in the beginning, before COVID-19 even had a widely recognizable name, scientists and other interested parties looked on in amazement…
CLEMMONS — The line, a living, breathing thing, swelled each time a new customer set off chimes by pulling the front door open.
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.”
Reginald Joins and Penny Cook looked to be having a big time yukking it up last week near the counter at Family Video.
I remember taking my young daughter to a Martin Luther King celebration at a church a few years ago. A sketch of the Rev. King’s image decorat…
This past fall, I called attention to the presence of invisible hope that exists among residents of East Winston that belies the recognizable …
The young man, a store clerk actually, who answered the phone Thursday at the Dispensary Alternative Care Center sounded guarded. Suspicious even.
Charlie is gone now. “Some place where it’s warmer,” he said. “And it don’t rain so much. A little town I know.”
For a moment it actually appeared that the one thing America would get right in 2020 would be a free and fair election. It was an election gal…
RALEIGH — It was the summer of 1987 when I first stepped inside the United States Capitol to work instead of visit.
What do you do when the unthinkable happens? Where do you go to find peace? And how do you explain it to a child?
Responses to and analyses of the Jan. 6 seditious attack on the nation’s capital by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters have been wide ranging.…
You might have seen the photo by now. Of all the disturbing images of the Jan. 6 insurrection, this one lingers.
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The mob violence that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was deplorable and disgusting. It is the antithesis of a free society that wis…
I was putting books on shelves in my new house last week when I came across "PrairyErth," by William Least Heat-Moon. It’s one of the best boo…
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
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