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Much ado about court storming
Recently, I was watching basketball with my brother. When the game we were watching ended (congrats to NC ...
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Hunter Museum a must for baseball buffs
Gene Autry never had much trouble fighting the bad guys, but according to my late friend Frank Roberts, ...
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Fascinating stories: supermassive black holes, pancake races, and mumruffins
There are a lot of news sources available for people to choose from (including this very newspaper), and ...
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A dominating year thus far for female athletes
Chinese Horoscope 2024 predicts a prosperous year for the dragon, representing authority, prosperity, and good fortune. I’ve got ...
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If you need to do homework to watch TV, you’re doing it wrong probably
Have you ever been called a “couch potato”? I’m sure that the term could apply to me at ...
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Crooks go to extreme measures to steal odd items
There’s a joke that, like me, has been around for a long, long time. So much to the ...
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Punny names, weird names, and everything in between
Pretty much everything has a name. It’s essential to how we identify who and what we interact with ...
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Farewell Apollo, Chubbs, Greef Karga
Carl Weathers, one of my favorite actors, died last week at the age of 76. As a fan ...
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School vouchers are a complex subject with a long history
As I mentioned in last week’s column, school vouchers have been one of the hot education topics in ...
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Pro athletes do show their emotional side
Sports fans, like myself, often get caught up thinking that the gifted athletes we watch on TV or ...
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From AI to school vouchers: hot topics in NC education
Last week, I wrote about how legalized sports betting will have an impact on several universities across North ...
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Don’t use an elephant to plow cotton fields
A couple of weeks ago, I received a phone call from my daughter who asked a really strange ...
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Legal gambling to benefit small university athletic programs in NC
If I were a betting man (and for the record, I am not actually a betting man – ...
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More newspaper treasures to share
In this space a week ago, I introduced you to a new way to access the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald ...
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Parkways, driveways, and other words to help people find their “way”
Have you ever wondered why people park on driveways and drive on parkways? I admit that I’ve definitely ...