Article
Father-son bond strengthened at Cooperstown
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — I woke my son Paul at around 10:30 on the night of Oct. 28, 1995. He was almost 5 at the time and didn’t completely understand why I did it. He does […]
Month: August 2018
Business
Strong housing market? It’s complicated.
RALEIGH – “How is the real estate market?” It’s the question I get asked daily and it always gets my blood pumping with excitement to openly chat about real estate. Seasoned Realtors used to have […]
Opinion
HILL: 2% real GDP growth is not ‘the new normal’
Remember the familiar lament from President Barack Obama’s team for eight long years? “Two percent real GDP growth is the new normal for the U.S. economy.” Two percent annual growth wasn’t even the “new normal” […]
Opinion
WILLIAMS: Some ideas to think about
Poverty is no mystery, and it’s easily avoidable. The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For a two-person household, it was […]
News
McCready crafts a moderate image for conservative voters
RALEIGH — The race for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District appears tight as polling shows the Democrat competitive in this traditionally conservative-leaning district. The Cook Political Report has the district as an R7, meaning Republicans […]
Features
Sending summer off in NC style
RALEIGH — With schools and state universities down to the last three weeks before classes resume, families are drumming up last-ditch lists to make the most of any waning summer free time. In the western […]