A tipping point
From the Appalachian mountains to the Outer Banks, North Carolina has been no stranger to change since 2008. For the first time in decades, North Carolina has become a key political state in the...
View Article96 miles, 23 letters, one man, one amendment
The morning after Amendment One passed in North Carolina on May 8, 2012, Randy Gillis went for a walk to clear his head. “It felt like North Carolina had changed overnight,” he said. “I felt like I...
View ArticleThe faces of the Haitian immigration
Mount Olive is a small town of 4,600 in eastern North Carolina. The town is mostly known as the home of the Mount Olive pickle company, or it was until a year and a half ago, when Haitian immigrants...
View ArticleThe facts of the matter: four states tangle with science
Last month, North Carolina’s Senate flirted with taking the state into full bonehead territory when it approved a bill that would have required state agencies to ignore scientific forecasts predicting...
View ArticleNC steps up its science education game
President Obama, speaking at Duke University last year, invoked a by-now familiar threat: India and China, with their growing economies and their emphasis on science and math education, are going to...
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How screwed are you? A college debt calculator
Student debt has become a big deal politically. President Obama declared during a visit to North Carolina in May that he had just finished paying off his own student loans eight years ago. A 2011...
View ArticleOptimistic despite the odds in NC’s furniture industry
In Archdale, NC, west of High Point, Bill Maners is stapling foam to a frame, and he can tell just from the sound of the air whooshing from the staple gun that it’s time for more staples. Maners has...
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