August 27, 2008
Beverly Perdue is running for governor like a genie let out of a bottle. She's full of energy, ideas and promises to grant three wishes, at least, for every North Carolinian. Now that she's escaped the confinement of her corked-up job, there are no limits...
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August 20, 2008
Leaving a wedding reception at the International Home Furnishings Club in downtown High Point Saturday night, I noticed one thing right away: You could run a car race around there and not cause a traffic problem. There's just not much going on in High Poi...
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August 13, 2008
The sins of a lying, cheating politician kept me turning pages of the morning newspaper last week ... And that was before the John Edwards story broke. I was on vacation in Michigan eagerly awaiting each day's Detroit Free Press, the source of cover-to-co...
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July 30, 2008
A half-dozen candidates are competing to replace Ron Wilkins on the High Point City Council, but only in the sense of succeeding him. He's irreplaceable. One of a kind. Wilkins, Ward 2 representative for a decade, is stepping down for health reasons. He's...
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July 23, 2008
Nationally, the press for High Point University has never been better. "This once-sleepy institution in the hills of North Carolina has undergone a revival in the last couple of years, thanks in part to its jaw-dropping menu of student services," The Chro...
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July 16, 2008
In North Carolina, a murder victim has to breathe before being killed. Hence the macabre exercise by state and military investigators earlier this year to determine whether the lungs of slain Marine Maria Lauterbach's fetus contained traces of oxygen at t...
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July 8, 2008
A state trooper's private travel diary: This wasn't what I signed up for. When the sergeant called me in for this assignment, he made it sound like some sort of lark. "Officially, your job is to provide security for the first lady on her trip to Europe. O...
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July 2, 2008
Rob Coulthard gave his wife the final, fatal dose of arsenic on July 3, 1988 - 20 years ago tomorrow. She was a patient at Duke University Medical Center. She died there six days later. No one suspected he'd been poisoning her since December 1987. Rob and...
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June 25, 2008
I'd score Saturday's debate between Elizabeth Dole and Kay Hagan about even. Neither U.S. Senate candidate inflicted nor received much damage, but both gave clues about their best lines of attack as the campaign proceeds. Dole, the incumbent Republican, a...
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June 18, 2008
The N.C. Supreme Court should try teaching middle schoolers. The justices, insulated in their peaceful chambers, last week denied a worker's compensation claim for a former middle school teacher whose "job was driving her crazy," in the words of her psych...
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June 11, 2008
Suzanne Reynolds is running against Bob Edmunds for his seat on the N.C. Supreme Court, but she faults his performance only by association. The whole court is falling short, she said last week. The Wake Forest law professor is rippling the normally tranqu...
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May 7, 2008
End Of The Road, N.C. - "Mind if I join you?" I say to the old timer perched on a bench at the edge of the tiny town square. He's dressed in overalls and wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat to fend off the sun. His rough hands look like they might have gui...
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