“You’d better be careful,” my wonderful seventh grade teacher, Miss Winifred Potts, preached to my class more than 65 years ago. Miss Potts had a set of strategies to encourage us to behave, in and out of class. To discourage...
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What explains the staying power of Harper Lee’s book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and the film that...
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Like all North Carolinians, I am worrying about the flooding causing heart-rending damage...
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How did Carrboro writer and teacher Georgann Eubanks become the leader of the North Carolina...
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Anna Beer could cost North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars, but how in the world could this...
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He is like the houseguest who stays too long, and then when he’s finally gone, you miss him a...
Read More“This may be the last time we get together like this.” We hoped he was wrong. But my classmates and I knew that Charles Holland, the organizer of my North Mecklenburg High School Class of 1958’s 60th reunion, might be right....
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Could a North Carolina novel be the country’s best-loved? “The Great American Read,” a PBS series,...
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In 1965, Terry Sanford left the governor’s office and moved down Fayetteville Street from the...
Read MoreWhen Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki this week, it might have been useful if they had had a written contract to reference their previous understandings. No such written contract exists, but if it did, it might...
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