This Old State

Those of us who have to travel between Raleigh and Charlotte from time to time get weary of the traffic on the Interstates or the stoplights...

When he was a vice chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and professor of geography, Doug Orr earned a reputation for ...

Who was Floyd Lupton and why is a ferry named for him? The news media have had a field day with the recent reports how the State Ports Autho...

Henry M. Robert was an Army general who understood the value of simple rules, uniformly applied. “Where there is no law, but every man does ...

While he was still chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court, I. Beverly Lake Jr. pushed the General Assembly for more resources for the state...

Tobacco hasn’t been king in North Carolina for a long time, but it was still worth noting the other day when the N.C. General Assembly banne...

When I was growing up in Greensboro in the ’50s and early ’60s, the state’s biggest cities were Charlotte and Winston-Salem. Greensboro woul...