D.G. Martin, Author at Chapelboro.com

Another war we cannot win?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 7, 2011 | D.G. Martin

One lesson America is reluctant to learn: Wars are easer to declare than to win. Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya elude the kind of total victory our country achieved in World War II. And we have other declared wars...

A short North Carolina history lesson

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 31, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Here is my list, compiled about 10 years ago of the most important events in 20th Century North Carolina. It is a good time to reassess, but I am sticking with what I wrote back then. The election of 1900. The white supremacy...

An aerotropolis in North Carolina?

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 24, 2011 | D.G. Martin

But what about North Carolina airports? How do our major airports and associated metropolitan areas fit into the concepts for the future of the world’s mega airport cities discussed in the new book, “Aerotropolis: The Way...

Outside the banks—the Mississippi and you and me

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 18, 2011 | D.G. Martin

The Mississippi River has gone “wild” again. When it happened back in 1993, it led me to compare the challenges of managing a river and managing our lives, both sometimes moving outside their defined channels. Here is what I...

“Aerotropolis.” Is it for us?

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 10, 2011 | D.G. Martin

“Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.” Yogi Berra’s seemingly contradictory wisdom could be a subtitle for a new book about airports and the surrounding landscapes that grow up around them. “Aerotropolis: The...

North Carolina books for spring reading

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 3, 2011 | D.G. Martin

What should I be reading this spring? Some of you know that I get this question from my friends each year when the weather starts to warm up. And, you remember, I often respond with a list of a variety of books, each of which...

Legislative trading and sausage making

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 26, 2011 | D.G. Martin

“If someone ties a love note to a nuclear bomb, do you take ‘em both?” That was State Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt, a Democrat, complaining about the legislature’s Republican majority tying a controversial budget cut...

“They are trying to eat Big Bird”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 18, 2011 | D.G. Martin

The hundreds of William Friday’s friends and fans who gathered to hear him speak last week might not have guessed that the institutions he worked so hard to build were threatened by the just-released legislative budget...

What kind of paper money and why?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Apr 11, 2011 | D.G. Martin

What is money? I asked that question again recently when I heard that State Representative Glen Bradley had introduced House Bill 301 to “study whether this State should adopt a currency to serve as an alternative to the...

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