September 28, 2008
When a group of parents requested an expenses-paid trip to an out-of-town conference for 41 people, it was hard not to be skeptical. The total bill would have run upwards of $74,000 and there are lot of meaningful things schools can do with 74 grand right...
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September 21, 2008
The candidacy of Sarah Palin has created a tsunami of passionate letters. In fact, this is shaping up as an extraordinary year for letters. The tone, length and closeness of this year’s presidential race — as well as the cast of compelling figures......
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September 14, 2008
When I was a youngster growing up in northeast Greensboro, one of life's simplest pleasures was waiting till the sun set on long, lazy summer days and tuning into Atlanta Braves games on the radio. At night the signal from WSB in Atlanta would come in lou...
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September 7, 2008
I honestly don't think the issue of her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy ought to be a big deal in Sarah Palin's quest for the vice presidency. Given the inexact science of raising teenagers, stuff can and does happen, no matter how good a parent you are.
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August 31, 2008
Effective Monday, the News & Record's opinion pages will change to fit the new realities of the newspaper business. Faced with less room in the printed newspaper on those days, we will eliminate the Second Opinion page on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturda...
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August 24, 2008
Many are finding it hard to believe a local gang leader would want to walk away from violence, as Jorge Cornell says he does. But it has happened before, on the streets of one of the meanest and bloodiest gang breeding grounds on the planet -- Los Angeles...
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August 3, 2008
Teetering on irrelevance, but still hungry for the spotlight, Jesse Jackson has seen better days. Even as a national conference of minority journalists descended two weeks ago on Jackson's home base in Chicago, he was out of sight, if not out of mind, aft...
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July 20, 2008
As an incurable Green Bay Packers fan, I don't know what to make of quarterback Brett Favre's messy flirtation with a comeback after announcing his retirement several months ago. On the one hand, I believe Favre has earned the right to have second thought...
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July 13, 2008
Following a call for peace on June 28 by a local leader of the Latin Kings, one TV reporter was so moved that she hugged the gang's flinty-eyed state potentate, Jorge Cornell. I didn't hug Cornell, whose official title is "Inca" of the Latin Kings in Nort...
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June 23, 2008
Who would've thunk it? County Commissioner Billy Yow, a conservative Republican who loves huntin', hates big government and has never met a corporate incentive he liked, is pushing for a tax increase. Having failed to convince the local legislative delega...
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June 15, 2008
If Barack Obama were elected president this November, he wouldn't be the first African American to occupy the Oval Office. Dennis Haysbert, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones and Tommy "Tiny Lister" all would have been there before him. At least they would...
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May 1, 2008
Like many editorialists, I am an unaffiliated voter. But it has nothing to do with my job. I have not toed anyone's party line since 1984. That's the year I told the Democrats goodbye and good riddance. I lived in Forsyth County at the time and found the...
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