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One on One: What Are The Debates Missing?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 22, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Is something missing from the debates? The 20 candidates who qualified for the July 30 and 31 CNN...

One on One: 4 Challenging Books That Make For Good Summer Reading

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 15, 2019 | Columns, Town Square

Four new North Carolina books challenge our values and make for good summer reading. Rocky Mount writer Etaf Rum, author of “A Woman Is No Man,” grew up in a Palestinian immigrant family in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1990s and...

One on One: Flags and Shoes

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 8, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Colin Kaepernick and Nike are right about one thing: The original American flag, the one we think...

One on One: Finding Replacements

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 1, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

When it comes to replacing Wilber’s, Bill’s, Allen & Son, and Carolina Bar-B-Q — I am in...

One on One: Why are Carolina Native American Tribes at War With Each Other?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 24, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Last week U.S. Sen. Richard Burr wrote a newspaper column criticizing the Eastern Band of the Cherokee for opposing the South Carolina-based Catawba Tribe’s efforts to acquire land near Kings Mountain to build a casino. Burr...

One on One: Four Recent Books Featuring North Carolina Indians

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 17, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Do you need to know a little more about the early contacts between the Native Americans and the European settlers in North Carolina? Help is on the way with four books and four upcoming programs on “North Carolina...

One on One: Nothing Funny or Foolish

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 10, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

“Ray Dawson didn’t do anything funny or foolish.” Felix Joyner, former vice president of finance...

One on One: Lessons from Gettysburg for Next Year’s Candidates

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 3, 2019 | Columns, D.G. Martin, Town Square

Are there lessons from the Civil War battles at Gettysburg for the Democrats and their candidates as they prepare for the 2020 presidential elections? Let’s think about it together. On my trip to the Gettysburg battlefields late...