NEWS What is the best day in December? Christmas? Maybe. Hanukkah? Could be, beginning December 7 through December 15. But for this year, for me, it is December 7, the last day to sign up for or change your Medicare Advantage plan. And, more importantly, it is the...

  NEWS Can an 80-year-old person still lead and run important businesses? Duke University President Vincent Price recently reminded us of the continuing value of people such as Jim Goodnight. In the Nov. 24 edition of The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News &...

  NEWS Why? One reason is that it is one of the very few days we have saved just for families and friends. We have done a better job of keeping the Thanksgiving holiday from getting away from us. It has not yet taken charge of our lives. No dressing up with new...

NEWS He is a hero to thousands of North Carolinians who live near precious old buildings that, but for Myrick Howard, would have been destroyed. Because of Howard’s work, scores of old school buildings, historic homes, commercial buildings, and other treasures—a total...

  NEWS “No.  I didn’t know George Washington.  But I had a friend who knew him very well.” I remembered these words last week when I was visiting a group of distinguished people in Salisbury. All of us remembered Julian Hart Robertson who died in 1995 and the story he...

NEWS It would be hard today to find an old-fashioned boardinghouse to spend the night and eat a meal with the other boarders. Not impossible, but difficult, and yet less than a century ago boardinghouses covered the towns and cities where Americans came together for...

  NEWS In the midst of a terrible war in Gaza, why would I be reading a book about Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)? That book is Michael Lewis’s “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a new Tycoon.” Coincidently, the book came out just a few days before Bankman-Fried went on...