D.G. Martin

In September 2001, After the attack on the World Trade Center, I wrote the following in this...

The Wall Street Journal editors turned their newspaper’s attention to North Carolina last week. In...

Could we live without pennies? For the most part we are already getting along using credit cards, electronic payments and other non-cash devices to bill and pay. Merchants, even at the farmers’ markets, happily take credit cards even though it costs them a little extra.

Writing in the Sept. 5 Chicago Tribune, columnist Steve Chapman explained how “JD Vance keeps proving he’s a terrible choice for VP.”

“That couldn’t happen if you moved every three years.” Reynolds Price, the late...

Although North Carolina Bookwatch in no longer airing on PBS-NC people still ask what books are...

Have you decided how you are going to vote in the upcoming election? Even if you have decided...

If you want to understand what has been happening in this year’s presidential contest, it will...