D.G. Martin, Author at Chapelboro.com

One on One: Small towns, Courts, and Independent Thinkers

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 27, 2017 | D.G. Martin

“I have to vote to break a tie on town council’s votes all the time,” the mayor of a small North Carolina mountain town told a friend. “When they deadlock it is a 3 to 3 vote, with the same people always voting together.”...

One on One: Losing Diane Rehm

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 20, 2017 | D.G. Martin

Diane Rehm’s scheduled visit to Elon University on April 6 is reminding fans of her public radio program how much they miss her since her retirement at the beginning of this year. For 37 years her morning talk show made her one...

One on One: Cuba – Hellhole or Jewel?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 13, 2017 | D.G. Martin

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One on One: Reynolds Price, Small Towns, and People Estuaries

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 6, 2017 | D.G. Martin, Town Square

Since 2000 North Carolina has grown from about 9.5 million people to well over 10 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Most of that growth is in our urban areas while many rural areas and small towns are losing...

One on One: HB2 and Eating Together

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 27, 2017 | D.G. Martin

Where are Ruby and Jack Hunt when we need them? Somebody needs to sit our political leaders down and guide them into talking to each other about how to get our state out of the HB2 mess we have made for ourselves. That is what...

One on One: A “New” Barbecue Holiday

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 20, 2017 | D.G. Martin

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 our distinctive favorite food: barbecue? Got your attention? The Campaign for Real...

One on One: Will Trump remember Washington on Presidents’ Day?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 14, 2017 | D.G. Martin, Town Square

Will President Donald Trump remember George Washington when we celebrate Presidents’ Day next week? Here is some help for him with thoughts from a column I wrote earlier. When I was growing up, February 22, Washington’s...

One on One Emmett Till lives on

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 7, 2017 | D.G. Martin, Town Square

“America is still killing Emmett Till,” writes Duke professor Timothy Tyson in his new book, “The Blood of Emmett Till.” Tyson revisits the 1955 kidnapping and brutal killing of Till, a 14-year-old black youth from Chicago...

January 31, 2017

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 31, 2017 | A Page From D.G. Martin's Notebook

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One on One: The Wilmington Ten and the Women’s March on Washington

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 30, 2017 | D.G. Martin

“The case of the Wilmington Ten amounts to one of the most egregious instances of injustice and political repression from the post–World War II black freedom struggle. It took legions of people working over the course of the...

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