This Old State

This has been a hard week for North Carolinians who love the coastal region -- and those who work hard at preserving what is best there. Ear...

Opponents of Alcoa Power Generating Inc. have hailed a state administrative law judge's decision blocking at least temporarily the issua...

An administrative law judge in Raleigh has at least temporarily blocked a state permit that Alcoa Power Generating Inc. needs in its quest f...

It would be nearly another half century before I met David Stick, but when I was a boy and first got my hands on his "Graveyard of the ...

In a Sunday column I asked readers whether they thought the 1977 gubernatorial success amendment had anything to do with the problems of lat...

A lot of readers let me know right away that I had missed by four years the date when Jimmy Green became lieutenant governor. He won that po...

What's this? Out-of-control legislators from Alamance County pawing innocent teenage pages in the state House of Representatives? Again?...