The holiday emailbag
Things always slow down a little over the holidays so there’s not a lot in the old December emailbag. But what we got was pretty stout. Let’s start with the hate mail first. Earlier in the month we...
View ArticleThe emailbag: The January blues
January, as usual, is a slow month for newspapers. Everybody, it seems, wants to take a breather after the Christmas season. It’s slow for retailers, restaurants and business that need those two...
View ArticleThe Overdue Emailbag, Part I: Some Dukan Diet suggestions
I’m going to spend a little time this week catching up on the emailbag. I’ve lapsed over the past couple of months in posting notes from readers. They’re still writing, I’m just slow in posting. Here’s...
View ArticleDumping the emailbag, Part II: Please stop yelling
Here’s the emailbag for the past couple of months. I picked some highlights, including this one from the Times-News editor emeritus, Don Bolden, regarding the change in historical information about...
View ArticleThe return of the emailbag
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about Mebane native Woody Durham, the now retired voice of the Tar Heels, being inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame. It was largely about Woody’s...
View ArticlePride Alamance issue: Gauging the response of readers, er-uh, viewers
I was anticipating strong response to our editorial on Tuesday, “Downtown Pride event highlights emergence of an accepting city” but I had no idea how strong or what direction it might take. Well,...
View ArticleKnowing when, and how to fold ’em
Who knew fitted sheets were such a … thing? In Sunday’s Times-News and here I made the sad admission in a list of resolutions for the New Year that I had absolutely no clue how to properly fold a...
View ArticleComics and a comedy of errors
The subject line to an email I received Sunday morning was this: “Just curious.” That’s a pretty loaded subject line for a Sunday morning. With some hesitation I opened it. That’s my job, to read...
View ArticleDo we know how to be good neighbors anymore?
I got this from a Burlington reader last night. Neighborhood problems where I live have led me to wonder if the paper would attract a whole new readership with a column about “being a neighbor.” Where...
View ArticleThat scamp John Oliver speaks the truth about newspapers
A couple of weeks ago comedian John Oliver made news in the journalism world with a spot-on piece concerning the state of newspapers and reporting in general. Here’s the HBO piece taken from his show...
View Article