Editor’s Note: Love letters
I don’t write a lot of love letters. In fact, I don’t write many letters at all, which is a shame, because I love letters. It may have something to […]
Editor’s Note: Everybody’s a critic
What does an artist need? A clean, well-lit place? Genius? A tortured soul? Or is the answer less poetic? Cheap rent, time to spare, and a bit of pocket money. […]
Editor’s Note: To your health
You might have noticed there’s a little tag on the front of our newspaper commemorating 25 years in business. Our company started in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came […]
Editor’s Note: The melting pot
When we publish our food listings magazine, Bites + Sites, the restaurant categories are always a bit of a conundrum. What do you do with a Russian-Turkish bakery or a […]
Editor’s Note: The problem of scale
I knew an old real estate boss in Western North Carolina who once offered me a piece of advice about growing a business. “It ain’t hard to make water come […]
Editor’s Note: Thoughts about race from the liberal, lying, lamestream media
One of my friends in town told me a while ago that he always liked what I wrote, but he wondered why I was not feared as an editor. I […]
Editor’s Note: On soul searching
I’ve been asked many times why I got a divinity degree, and there isn’t a simple answer. When I think about the enduring weight of student loans and the concrete […]
Editor’s Note: The scoop on Christmas
Every journalist gets into the business because he likes answering questions of one kind or another. Who’s moving the money behind the scenes? What color was the getaway car? When […]
Editor’s Note: The consumer’s environment
In 1965 Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed, destroying the unimpeachable authority of The Big Three and American manufacturing by tugging on a loose strand, the accident statistics of […]
Editor’s Note: On the road and back again
Widely interpreted as a metaphor for J.R.R. Tolkien’s personal experience during World War I and afterwards, The Hobbit was originally published in 1937 with the alternative title There and Back […]