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One on One: Robert Bashford and The Rule

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 6, 2020 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

On New Year’s Eve I lost one of the best friends anybody could ever have. That loss was widely...

One on One: Soong’s Daughters – No Fairy Tale

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 30, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Is it really just a fairy tale? That is what some reviewers of a new book are calling one of my...

DG Martin: A Scraggly Christmas Tree

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 25, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

I remember one Christmas more than all the others. Thinking of it now almost 60 years later,...

One on One: The Thinking Man’s Grisham

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 23, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“For years, I was an excellent lawyer, as honest and effective as you could ever want, and I’m a...

One on One: A Christmas Fool

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 16, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Imagine the Bethlehem Christmas story set in a shopping mall in eastern North Carolina. Think of a...

One on One: North Carolina Books to the Rescue

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 9, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“Are there new North Carolina books that would be good holiday presents for hard-to-give-to...

One on One: Grisham Clears The Innocent

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 2, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“After 36 Years in Prison, 3 Men Cleared in Killing,” a headline in The New York Times streamed...

One on One: A Literary Capital for a Day

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 25, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Where is the literary capital of North Carolina? Hillsborough? Pittsboro? Chapel Hill? The big...

One on One: Are We Virginia, or West Virginia?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 18, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Are we, politically speaking, more like Virginia or more like its sister state, West Virginia? As William Galston pointed out in the November 12 issue of the Wall Street Journal, it might depend on what time period we are...

One on One: The Late Eatery

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 4, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“The late.” It is a term I am having to insert too many times as I revise and update “North...

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