North Carolina’s unemployment rate has dropped from the 10.9 percent 2010 high we experienced following The Great Recession to 4.0 percent in October. But that’s not uniform across the state. The low was Asheville’s 2.8 […]
Are there new North Carolina books that would be good holiday presents for hard-to-give-to people on my list? I get that question every year about this time. Answering it gives me a chance to spread […]
Let’s get two things straight right off the bat. The first is that, in the last few years, no one has protested police wrongdoing more vociferously than African Americans. The second is that no one […]
“It’s a media-mad world.” This was a tagline from a parenting book I co-authored — eight years ago. Now, kids aren’t just mad for media in their world; media is their world. That’s the takeaway […]
Well, that appears to be a wrap. The 2019 legislative session that commenced way back in January and dragged on in desultory fashion for months past its usual adjournment date finally petered out a couple […]
I sat in front of my computer Wednesday morning for what seemed like hours … stunned. It had been months since I’d received an email from my high-school buddy and college roommate. He’s lived outside […]
A town or county is like a train. First of all, to build both, a lot of planning and hard work has to be done. People have to get involved. Our forefathers just didn’t go […]
The verdict is in on President Trump’s 2017 corporate tax cut: It didn’t work. The tax cut’s backers said reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% would increase the average household income by […]
RALEIGH — During 2018, North Carolina lost some 338,000 private-sector jobs, or 9.1 percent of the total. Did you happen to notice this economic catastrophe? I doubt it, because North Carolina businesses added nearly 413,000 […]
I used to call it the “magic” table. It sat against the wall in my grandparent’s five-room bungalow, adorned with a doily and my grandfather’s Avon glass car collection. Every Thanksgiving the table would expand […]
Their origins couldn’t be more different — one in the liberal Pacific Northwest, the other in the Bible Belt. And yet despite existing in a consumer brand landscape increasingly caught in the same polarizing trends […]
Food is a temporary self-soother for those who use gooey goodies to self-medicate painful emotions. Eating prompts the brain to release endorphins, known as ‘feel good’ chemicals. These chemicals include the neurotransmitter dopamine, which the […]
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