Cooper's wall
Will Roy Cooper have a wall this summer? Could it be something like Donald Trump’s wall on the Mexican border that he promised to build. Do you remember how he said he would veto the emergency... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by D. G. Martin
Motherhood and writers
Carol Folt’s swift departure from the chancellorship of UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks ago and her just as swift hiring as the president of the University of Southern California got me thinking... Read More
Real barbecue and small towns; enjoy them while you can
Is it just one more small-town business that has closed its doors? Or is there more to it? For North Carolina barbecue lovers, last week’s closure of Wilber’s in Goldsboro was like the loss of a... Read More
Don't let the Democratic Party leave me
I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me.” This declaration is not new. I heard it over and over again back in the early 1980s when old-line conservative Democrats, still smarting from... Read More
Could Brooklyn-North Carolina lightning strike again?
Do you remember the important North Carolina connection to “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” one of America’s most loved novels? The book was written in North Carolina. Although its author, Betty... Read More
Following Lawson through the Carolinas
Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back east to the North Carolina tidewater? There are two good... Read More
NC suffers another indignity and this one's worth fighting over
North Carolina’s most important emergency is not the next federal government shutdown. Nor is it a fake national emergency on the nation’s southern border Our state’s real emergency is a real... Read More
Just like Samson pulling down Baal's temple
Chapel Hill is still stunned. Folks here woke up on Tuesday last week to see the base of the Silent Sam monument gone, thanks to the surprising and decisive action of UNC-CH Chancellor Carol Folt. She... Read More
More and more famous North Carolinians
A couple of weeks ago I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019“The World Almanac and Book of Facts.” I invited readers to suggest other people they thought... Read More
North Carolina's Old Testament prophet
While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law School professor Gene Nichol has been traveling the same roads looking for something else. I was... Read More
