The Politician - It is Andrew Young’s story, too The first questions many people want to ask Andrew Young about his best selling book, “The Politician.” • If the John Edwards story you tell in your book was so bad and distasteful, why did you st...
An Evening of Music returns It’s Back, Save the Date! After an absence of a number of years, “An Evening of Music” returns to Finch Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 13 for an evening performance and on Sunday, Nov. 14 for an aft...
Who is the smartest in the family “Actually, his wife is the smartest one in that family.” We still hear that comment from time to time today even though it should have been buried as a relic from the long ago days when husbands w...
Snow deadlines and other this-n-thats Well, if you‘re reading this article on Saturday morning, a lot of things happened to make it so. With the impending forecast of heavy snow, an early news deadline was set so that those things tha...
William Friday and the class of ‘48 study group About 65 years ago in the winter of 1946, a group of World War II veterans enrolled in the class of 1948 at UNC Law School and formed a study group that, some of us believe, had a important and ...
Remembering the fallen I was impressed with Denzel Washington’s interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC’s “Today Show” on Wednesday. In the interview, Denzel said that he doesn’t mind saying that he has a strong faith and ...
Memories of Mom Last year, when Governor Perdue selected Keith Crisco from Asheboro to serve as Secretary of Commerce in her cabinet, we had to admit that he was not exactly a household name in most of North Caro...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas The Thomasville Medical Center Foundation held an open house Tuesday evening for the Lighting of the Christmas Trees. It was an outstanding event. Once everyone had gathered in the Hospital lobby,...
What's your Muhammad problem? “A lot of people are having a ‘Muhammad problem’ these days.” These opening words from a new book by a UNC -Chapel Hill professor are about the least controversial words about Muhammad or Islam t...
A Thanksgiving gift Here is a Thanksgiving present I stole a few years ago from a wonderful North Carolina book—a few old quotes about North Carolina that are worth noting today. “North Carolina is, I believe, ...
