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Missing someone special at holiday time

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 12, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Harder, isn’t it, when the loss of a best friend or a loved one comes at holiday time? Maybe we already had a present picked out. And we are left wondering what gift for us might have been in the plans of our lost one. Harder...

Winter reading suggestions from North Carolina Bookwatch

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 5, 2011 | D.G. Martin

It is time to talk about books again. If you are looking for some special holiday gifts for some hard-to-give-to friends, I may have some help for you, thanks to UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch’s programs during the next few...

The ACC's first 20 years

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 28, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Just as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is poised to expand again, North Carolina’s basketball victory over South Carolina in Las Vegas last week brought back memories. They are memories of a time when the ACC was...

Prime Minister Bowles?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 23, 2011 | D.G. Martin

We are following in the footsteps of Greece and Italy. Just like them, we have lost control of our nation’s budget, and along with them, our economy is tanking. Just like them, we have a bunch of people who are hooked on...

Eleven-Eleven-Eleven

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 14, 2011 | D.G. Martin

November 11, 2011. It will be remembered by many of us as the day Carolina beat Michigan State in the inaugural NCAA Carrier Classic on the deck of the Navy aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson. Others of us still remember the 11th...

Still weaving for a living

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

There was a time when events near Kinston a few days ago would have been headline news. Here is what happened. A Russian military-style cargo airplane took off from the Kinston Regional Jetport loaded with a North Carolina woven...

Top Screwups Doctors (and Politicians) Make

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

What are the top screwups that politicians make? Joe and Terry Graedon, radio hosts of “The People’s Pharmacy,” have a new book, “Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them.” Could politicians and doctors be making the same...

The Republican nominee: It's going to be Rick Perry

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 25, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Don’t write off Rick Perry. You ask, why not? Because he is going to be the Republican nominee for President and will give Barack Obama a heck of a race next fall. You are laughing, aren’t you? If I had made this prediction six...

Autumn reading suggestions from North Carolina Bookwatch

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 17, 2011 | D.G. Martin

It is reading time again. So, courtesy of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, I have some autumn reading (and early Christmas gift) suggestions for your consideration. Charles Frazier’s new book “Nightwoods” will be on this...

Sparks' new book is good news for the East

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

The launch of a North Carolina author’s book this week will give economic development in eastern North Carolina a nice boost. New Bern’s Nicholas Sparks’s “The Best of Me” made its way on to the bestseller lists before its...

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