When you’re talking with DG Martin, you’re talking to a veteran, lawyer, politician, administrator and author. DG’s been around the block a few times and you’ll hear his conversations with guests practically guaranteed to provide some of the most interesting back-and-forth you’ll hear all weekend.
One on One: Kudzu Queen
Kudzu. It's a word. It is a plant. Something that will perk up North Carolinians when they hear that word. In one sense it is a bad word in North Carolina because it reminds us of the fields and fields of otherwise good farmland taken over by an exploding mob of...
December 9, 2023
Chapel Hill’s Mimi Herman talks about her debut novel “The Kudzu Queen.”
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One on One: Goodbye to Martha and Medicare Advantage
What is the best day in December? Christmas? Maybe. Hanukkah? Could be, beginning December 7 through December 15. But for this year, for me, it is December 7 — the last day to sign up for or change your Medicare Advantage plan. More importantly, December 7 is the day...
December 2, 2023
Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”
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One on One: Age and Experience, a Priceless Combination
Can an 80-year-old person still lead and run important businesses? Duke University president Vincent Price recently reminded us of the continuing value of people such as Jim Goodnight. In the Nov. 24 edition of The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News &...
November 25, 2023
From Thanksgiving 2005, the late William Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina, and Robert Dunham, former minister of the University Presbyterian Church, remember Thanksgivings as a time of thankfulness, of family gatherings, of celebrations, of anticipation, tension—and of reflection.
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‘Thanksgiving and Happiness,’ a Note from D.G. Martin
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Why? One reason is that it is one of the very few days we have saved just for families and friends. We have done a better job of keeping the Thanksgiving holiday from getting away from us. It has not yet taken charge of our lives....
One on One: Wearing Ties to Church
No one is wearing a tie at my church anymore. That is what I saw the other Sunday when I came back a few weeks after a short absence. I had not noticed how tie wearing had been diminishing gradually since the COVID epidemic began. Students, who make up a significant...
One on One: Peron, de Gaulle, and Trump
Democrats were celebrating their election victories last week in Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia. They have put aside at least temporarily their worries about the polls that show Donald Trump leads President Biden in the next year's presidential election. What many do...
One on One: Myrick Howard to the Rescue
He is a hero to thousands of North Carolinians who live near precious old buildings that, but for Myrick Howard, would have been destroyed. Because of Howard’s work, scores of old school buildings, historic homes, commercial buildings, and other treasures — a total of...
