Fri, 15 Jan 2021 | PREMIUM CONTENT

President of the North Carolina Senate Phil Berger noted the substantial challenges that face the state as he spoke at the start of the General...

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Usually when I write this column, it’s fun.  I get to write about people I’ve met, places I’ve been, things I’ve done (or not done),...

Sat, 9 Jan 2021 | PREMIUM CONTENT

It was appropriate that Allen Turner’s last bylined story was about the opening of a new $5 million apartment complex in Fair Bluff, the town...

Fri, 8 Jan 2021 | PREMIUM CONTENT

The events that unfolded Wednesday, Jan. 6 in Washington shouldn’t have come as a surprise. In one of the darkest days in the history of...

Wed, 6 Jan 2021 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Incongruous, incompatible, mismatched, unsuited, contradictory?  Those are some of the words that came to mind as I was taking my semi-regular evening walk the other...

Tue, 5 Jan 2021 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Masks, social distancing and hand sanitizer were the catchwords of 2020, a year that everyone was happy to see end at midnight Friday after the...

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

If there was ever a time when cynicism could have overtaken me, it was 2020. It was a year of bad news:  too many hurricanes,...

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

The Task for Racial Equality in Criminal Justice, created by Gov. Roy Cooper, seeks to address police bias against minorities, brought to light with the...