Keep in mind that reducing the number of acts we treat as criminal in North Carolina doesn’t necessarily mean that fewer acts will be illegal.
Reporters should not take orders from sources when writing their stories.
Driving along Highway 64 from Murphy to Manteo, you can experience the state’s geographical diversity and in so doing hear distinctive, regional North Carolina accents in the mountains, the Piedmont, and eastern North Carolina. Along the way you also can eat barbecue that in one region is taken from the shoulder and another from the...
I was struck when I came across two recent news stories virtually side-by-side. One was the story of the Randy Parton Theater — now called the Roanoke Rapids Theater — a failed venture by the city of Roanoke Rapids that was supposed to attract big shows, create tourism, and bolster the economy. The other was...
• Buncombe County Commissioner Holly Jones is on the airwaves with an ad touting her record as she seeks the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Jones will face 2012 Democratic nominee Linda Coleman, Durham attorney Ron Newton, and Wake County state employee Robert Wilson in Tuesday’s primary. • A WRAL News/Survey USA poll of...
If elections are hard to predict, just imagine how hard it is to make accurate predictions about systems that are even more complicated, such as an economy.
• In the Democratic primary battle for lieutenant governor, Buncombe County Commissioner Holly Jones has lined up endorsements from the Winston-Salem Journal, Indy Week, and former UNC-Chapel Hill and NBA star Sam Perkins (Jones was a student manager of the 1982 national champion men’s basketball team), but not longtime County Commissioner Cecil Bothwell. Bothwell endorsed Ron...
