Saunders: 9-year-old’s secret sauce is hot stuff at Rolesville...
All roads to Rolesville lead to barbecue during the Hot Pick’n Finger Lick’n BBQ and Bands festival.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Facebook's lack of heart helps ailing infant
Hey Facebook, we see what you did there - rejecting a picture of Kevin Bond's ailing infant son as Bond sought help raising money for a tiny heart transplant.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Spankings can be an acceptable punishment; abuse never is
Corporal punishment can be effective. But you'd have to be the Marquis de Sade to try to justify what Adrian Peterson is accused of doing to his 4-year-old son.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Chapel Hill couple wield hammer of community service
Chapel Hill couple Fred and Sylvia Black get a surprise honor for their longstanding charitable efforts.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: If this was a joke about starting a war with Mexico, who's laughing?
NC Congressional candidate Mark Walker, employing the old "you-didn't-think-I-was-really-serious-ha-ha?" strategy, hopes to distance himself from comments he made in June about attacking Mexico.Click...
View ArticleSaunders: Brad Cooper plea may have been expedient, but it also was troubling
Brad Cooper's 12-year sentence may provide "closure" to his former wife's family, but it may lead to open season on other mothers, daughters, sisters, friends.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: One family's joy comes after another family’s loss
Kevin Bond's infant son, Hudson, got a new heart. But it came after another infant died.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Sure, a college student's fight over Ladies Night is trivial. But...
Regardless of how one feels about Ladies Night or UNC student Trevor Dougherty's objections to it, we ought to at least laud his desire to fight a popular policy and…Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: One way to cut down on crowds at the State Fair - allow guns
North Carolina's fairground has been turned into a battleground this year over whether people have the right to carry concealed weapons there.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: ‘Jeopardy’ winner has Triangle conundrum
Josh Hager of Raleigh knows about exclusive clubs – and not just of former “Jeopardy!” winners, the club he joined last week.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Bedbug battle may separate mother from her special-needs son
Properly ascribing blame or finding the source of a familys bedbugs is not possible. It wouldnt do any good, anyway. Because Wake County might separate - briefly - a special-needs…Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: How do you pronounce 'Lejeune'? It's up for debate
We can thank Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis for giving us such a stark choice Nov. 4 - between a candidate who calls the Jacksonville Marine Corps base Camp Luh-Joon…Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Gays are now marrying in North Carolina - and the sky hasn't fallen
I don't consider myself particularly enlightened when it comes to gays being allowed to marry or do what everyone else can do. I just believe in minding my own business.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: UNC professor exposes the stupidity of streakers
It's unlikely that any other dudes will decide to dash naked through UNC professor Rita Balaban's economics class, after she unmasked two of the unclothed underclassmen and slapped one with…Click to...
View ArticleSaunders: In debates, dumb questions lead to dumb answers
Add this to the list of inane political debate questions: asking Kentucky candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes who she voted for.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Calm down about Ebola and get your flu shot
Want to know how else to lower your chance of getting sick? Get a flu shot. The flu is airborne; Ebola is not.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: An author now out of prison hopes others can learn from his life
Anyone hearing his story would figure a gun or the inside of a prison would be the last two things on earth Mike Rae Anderson would want to see again.Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Ebola ignorance is spreading much faster than the facts
Fear and information about Ebola are abounding, from worries about a sick plane passenger to anxiety about a school official who went to South Africa – 3,000 miles from the…Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Why can’t St. Aug’s and Shaw share a calendar?
Shaw, St. Augustine’s and NC A&T State universities all have the right to hold their homecomings on any date they wish, but it’s impossible to overstate how self-defeating it was…Click to Continue »
View ArticleSaunders: Ain’t never had too much candy corn
There are websites dedicated to people who talk about their contempt for candy corn. It was invented in the 1880s, so somebody – and not just I – must love…Click to Continue »
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