New Orleans Keisha Monk made the front page of the New York Times. I doubt if this was on her top ten list of life’s hopes and dreams. She lives, or at least lived until recently, in the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina, which turned out to be in the …
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North Carolina Pushing Back
Charlotte It’s sad joke when someone in North Carolina says with less than a smile, “Welcome to North Carolina, the new Alabama.” First, because Alabama is still doing all it can to continue to be the old Alabama, and secondly, because one of the top two fastest growing states is fighting a rearguard effort to …
Basketball Needs to Hold the Line in North Carolina
New Orleans North Carolina is arguably one of the most basketball crazy states in the country. I would hate to get in an argument about whether it is first or second, but right now as one of its premier teams, the University of North Carolina, is part of the NCAA’s Final Four, they are poised …