I’m only half joking when I argue that a true sports fan loathes his archrival more than he loves his own team. Sure, it’s an exaggeration. But one suspects that at least some Boston Red Sox supporters enjoy feasting on New York Yankee futility more than they celebrate their own team’s fourth World Series title...
Even though the administration of Gov. Pat McCrory has called the controversial proposal by CSX to build a railroad terminal in Johnston County near Selma “not viable,” the rail giant continues pursuing the project as one component of a larger plan to buy out entertainment attractions along the Interstate 95 corridor between Washington, D.C., and...
North Carolina politics will be a lot less colorful without Jack Hawke thick in the middle of it, as he was for five decades.
On this date 150 years ago, the Battle of Seven Pines illustrated the law of unintended consequences.
The premise of the book is that Republicanism = small-government conservatism = racism, and that the South became the perfect petri dish to incubate that filthy virus.
Why do Yankee reporters and columnists so eagerly put down Southern culture, food and accents, when they would never do it for any other culture?
For generations, the economic, cultural, and political life of North Carolina has been enriched by travelers and settlers from afar.
There are many unanswered questions about the R.C. Soles saga. Unfortunately for the senator, none of the possible answers to those questions will help him.
It’s election season in North Carolina again. Think local politics isn’t all that important? Then you haven’t been paying attention lately.
Some analysts who track population shifts believe the gradual relocation of Northerners to the South and West means good things politically for Republicans in those destination states. I’m not so sure.
Here's another round of media market-bashing when it comes to solid-waste disposal. Rather than slam new landfills likely to meet consumer demand, why not gang up on economic-development projects likely to fail?
