This Just In: A Mosaic of Panic
In the last week, there has been an amazing flurry of illegality flowing from the Trump Administration. Amazing – not in the good way.
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Columns
Little Big Moments: ‘The Piddly Brook of My Soul’
I first learned the name Renée Nicole Macklin Good because of her brutal killing on January 7, 2026. I want to remember her as a talented poet.
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Holding Court: Improved Guard Play Necessary for 2026 Tar Heels to Truly Thrive
While the first half of North Carolina’s 2025-26 basketball season showcased a fun variety of exceptional new talents, highlight-reel moments and résumé-building victories, it also raised some fair questions about the team’s down-the-stretch potential.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Room To Make, Grow and Create
The past two weeks my radio shows have begun outlining the ways political leaders will serve us better when they integrate into their governance and policy making the creative and entrepreneurial ideas and concepts I have collected in my new book ‘Common Ground for US’, due out in early June.
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Past Rhymes With Present Times: Trumpism and Reactionary Radicalism
Often attributed to Mark Twain — perhaps mistakenly, since no historical source shows he actually...
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Bottom Line With Brad: Getting Back on Track
My office, and all the items in it, have a story to tell. I sit at former Treasurer Harlan Boyles’ desk – it reminds me of the legacy of stewardship of our state’s finances that I must live up to.
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This Just In: Happy New Year!
This Just In — If your family gatherings over the holidays were anything at all like mine, well …...
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Little Big Moments: Putting Your Ear to the Conch Shell
After my parents were revealed as the tooth fairy and Santa Claus, I still held the belief that the ocean was inside a conch shell, even when I pressed my ear to the shell back at home in Raleigh.
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Holding Court: After Years as Arizona Backup, Veesaar Finding Stardom at UNC
During his first three months in a North Carolina uniform, Veesaar has started all 15 of the Tar Heels’ games, helped his new team to a Top 25 national ranking, firmly established himself as a prominent All-Atlantic Coast Conference candidate.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Fierce Cynicism, Radical Naïveté
I was considering writing a book that would take on the ambitiously important challenge of offering political and community leadership new ways to serve us, a book acknowledging that current political language has been so weaponized as to be useless.
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