News From Around the South, 6/8 to 6/15 - NORTH CAROLINA: Republicans axe NC State student center as an early voting site Republicans on the Wake County Board of Elections rejected the NC State University student center as an early voting site for the general election, resisting the fervent pleas of speakers who wanted to keep it as a polling place. The Talley Student […]
A Requiem For Privacy - When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of the umbrella agency that gathers intelligence from the 17 federal spying agencies and […]
The Internet Falls In Love With German World Cup Fan Discovering The South - The 2026 World Cup being hosted by the North American trio of Canada, Mexico and the United States has given plenty of soccer fans all over the world the chance to experience American culture for the first time. If everything you read on social media were true, you would probably be led to believe that everyone outside […]
The Right Thing Costs You - “If you’re trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that’s hardest,” my pop used to tell me. “The right thing is always the hardest thing.” Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off “60 Minutes,” a television news show that rose to journalism and stayed there for […]
News From Around the South, 6/1 to 6/8 - SOUTH CROLINA: Preservationists hope SC battlefield’s designation as endangered will boost attention Hanging Rock Battlefield is one of 11 of the most endangered historical places in the country, a national preservation trust decided COLUMBIA — As South Carolina grows, a battlefield in Lancaster County is among historic places across the country most at risk of being […]
