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• Stealing Fire May 17, 2012
  My friend told me before I left home that "Just because it isn't glowin' doesn't mean it's not hot." So the next day I set out from the mountains of northeastern West Virginia along the Shenandoah Valley to the John C. Campbell Folk School (Folkschool.org) in the hills of far western North Carolina to take a week-long class on t […]
  David Evans
• A Tale of Two Counties May 17, 2012
  Frank Adams begins each day with a bowl of cereal. He used to eat a larger breakfast, complete with a serving of bacon or sausage - which he now calls "dead animals" - but he changed his ways years ago when his wife's morning sickness kept her from cooking for him. Now 74, Adams has continued to eat light, stay out of the doctor's office […]
  Chelsea Toledo
• An idyll of Butler’s Swap May 17, 2012
  Butler's Swamp has gone. Confined, sanitized and renamed Lake Claremont, it has been incorporated into a ritzy housing subdivision with its own golf course. I once covered every square foot of that old swamp in a tin canoe, exploring its reed beds and mud-bars, looking for water rats and reed-warblers' nests and hoping against hope to encounter a n […]
  Frank Povah
• Forty Miles Of Bad Road May 16, 2012
  Julie wouldn’t look me in the eye. She tore off bits of paper napkin and rolled them into little balls. Every few seconds she’d glance at her girlfriend pleading for help. She was trying to explain what happened to her marriage. And then she broke down. Tears welled up in her eyes and she put her head on my shoulder. Her girlfriend reached out and stroked he […]
  Tom Poland
• Bill Downs on the Recent Elections in Europe May 15, 2012
  The recent elections on the other side of the Atlantic continue to cause concern around the planet and news coverage in the United States is both short on explanation and perspective. That is why I asked Dr. Bill Downs to help sense of it all. Downs serves as Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Georgia State University and is the author of nu […]
  John Hickman
• The Wrong Horse May 15, 2012
  The apparently irresistible campaign contributions and lobbying that seduced national and state legislators into signing onto privatization and deregulation schemes over the past decades brought us the current economic mess. The push for nuclear power is more of the same, kind of a group-think, ideological commitment unimpeded by critical analysis and driven […]
  Tom Ferguson
• How Willard Creates Jobs May 15, 2012
  By prompting people like Lynn Tilton to decide that "enough is enough." Well, to be honest, as a neighbor tells it, Lynn Tilton is responsible for the rescue of the paper mill in Gorham, NH because her father came to her in a dream and said that taking the two million dollars from the settlement of her sex discrimination law suit and retiring early […]
  Monica Smith
• A Draperesque Vision of America May 14, 2012
  Can an anti-woman, anti-black, anti-senior, anti-sick, anti-worker, anti-unemployed, anti-poor, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-education, anti-union, anti-peace, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-Wall-Street-reform, anti-Geneva-Convention, anti-world presidential candidate win?* That seems unfair. Let me re-phrase it. Can a candidate wishing […]
  Lee Leslie
• New job might have saved McConnell’s life May 14, 2012
  Becoming South Carolina’s lieutenant governor in March just might have saved Glenn McConnell’s life. “People have said ever since I came down here, I look healthier and I’ve been healing faster,” said McConnell, the powerful Senate president pro tempore who resigned from a job he loved to take over for disgraced former Lt. Gov. Ken Ard, who was sentenced Mar […]
  Andy Brack
• What happened in NC? Lessons from the amendment battle May 11, 2012
  As expected, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment yesterday stating “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized." Polls had always shown the amendment had majority support, and across the country, even the most progressive states -- think California -- have tended to pass […]
  Chris Kromm
• Republican Corruption, Taxes, and Our Children May 11, 2012
  I am a Democrat, and I am proud of it. However, the S.C. Press Association distributes this column, and neither they nor I want it to be a weekly partisan rant — there’s far too much of that in both our national and state politics already. That said, this column is about one thing: the corruption of the Republican leadership in the S.C. House of Representati […]
  Phil Noble
• The Seat Of Power May 11, 2012
  I can't speak for crooks, drifters, and others standing before a judge, but law-abiding Georgians love their courthouses and well they should. Georgia has one of America’s great collections of courthouses. The buildings range from Greek Revival to International Style. In fact, just about every architectural style imaginable can be found in Georgia’s 159 […]
  Tom Poland
• Does CSI undermine common sense in the jury box? May 8, 2012
  Science says no, but court officers not reassured. If real-life technology solved crimes as easily as the methods seen on "CSI" and similar TV shows, there’d be a lot more convictions for criminal offenses in the U.S. "CSI," which Nielson says consistently draws more than 10 million viewers a week, takes fans to a world where forensic inv […]
  Jessica Luton
• Crystal Bridges Museum’s art and design are magnificent May 7, 2012
  Lots of people have visited Bentonville, Ark., home of Walmart, for commercial reasons. Now there's another major reason to visit: to go to a new museum with a superb collection of American art. Not only that, but the museum, the idea of one of the heirs of the Walmart fortune, has no admission charge. "Your admission has been provided by Walmart, […]
  Elliott Brack
• Southern Road Names May 7, 2012
  How often we drive along giving no thought to the road we travel. And more often than that we give no thought to how the road got its name. In my case, I’m often forced to learn why or how a road got its name. Generally it makes for interesting reading. Over the years I’ve profiled several highways for magazines. Some of these profiles have worked their way […]
  Tom Poland