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Apr 2, 20194 min read

The Best of Enemies? How about "the best of America"?

While lunching quietly and undisturbed with Bill Riddick recently, I told him "You know, this may be the last time you'll be able to eat...

Mar 29, 20193 min read

Statue for two heroes

Bill Riddick was saddened that he hadn't done more for Ann Atwater. Although Riddick is the one who brought Atwater and C.P. Ellis...

Mar 21, 20194 min read

UPDATE: NCAE head agrees with GOP - Teachers should be armed.

Yeah, I know: I, too, was shocked when the head of the N.C. Association of Educators told me that the state's teachers should be armed....

Feb 28, 20194 min read

Sorry Charlotte, but your good thing is about to come to an end - and it's your own fault.

Remember in the Oscar-winning movie Brokeback Mountain when an anguished Jack told his pal Ennis "I wish I knew how to quit you"? Those...

Feb 6, 20193 min read

What St. Aug's needs in its next president

When Rob Robinson of Hamlet was a student and baseball player at St. Augustine's University -nee College - in the mid 1970s, he walked...

Jan 28, 20194 min read

A heapin' helpin' of hyperbole over some hamburgers.

Let's get one thing straight. I love the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Among other things, he granted me my first interview with a person whose...

Jan 16, 20193 min read

The UNC Board of Governors was pretty petty. (And I don't mean Richard.)

Usually when I interview my second-favorite Tar Heel basketball player of all time, Charles Scott, he is soft- spoken, measured and...

Jan 8, 20193 min read

Step, step, step right off the stage, R., and into the loving arms of the law.

Many, many years ago, back when I was still known as the Disco Godfather, I was at a club where the deejay was dreadful. Dude was so bad...

Dec 25, 20181 min read

The Greatest Christmas Tradition Of All

T'was just hours before Christmas and all through the town There wasn't a drop of egg nog nowhere to be found. I went to Harris Teeter,...