March 2023

Bullish on Baseball (and Durham)

How minor league baseball helped spark a city’s rebirth.

The rollout of North Carolina’s long-delayed attempt to digitize court records has been a catastrophe. Can it be salvaged?

Nearly 40 years ago, a newspaper columnist set out to capture the character of North Carolinians as he drove the state’s longest highway.

The Other Dr. Gilmer revisits a gruesome 2004 murder with a shocking twist on the true crime genre.

In an updated postscript to his book, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer delves into the continuing fight to get Vince Gilmer out of prison.

In North Carolina’s largest cities, developers are converting empty downtown offices into much-needed apartments and condos.

Tired of buying furniture you hate? Catawba Valley Furniture Academy is teaching people how to join the industry.

Shopping for a simple couch or dresser is driving us mad. What does the future hold for one of North Carolina’s most important industries?

Road-testing the celebrity chef’s modern vending machine concept in eastern North Carolina.

A younger Roy Cooper was the architect of a bill that gave the governor veto power. He’s now experiencing the limits of that authority.