From the Mountains to the Sea
A 900-mile trail from the Smokies to the shore is finally taking shape. Click here to read our series and see video and photos.
When 'required' won't do
Saunders: There are three ways to tell that something heavy is fixing to fall on your head.
Chief, call me; let's talk
Saunders: Hey, Chief. Was it something I said?
Green suits me best at breakfast
Saunders: In the immortal words of Kermit the Frog, it's not that easy being green.
Cut that highway greenery
Saunders: It's no exaggeration to say that the weeds on some parts of the Triangle's highways and roads would be more appropriate on African plains than separating road and highway lanes.
Teens get a label at the mall
Saunders: To understand any species, it helps to observe it in its natural habitat.
Zimbabwe takes a sad turn
Saunders:What's not to like about a country in which, when you turn on the television in the middle of the day, you see "Sanford & Son"? And where the residents treat you like you're Fred's pal, Big Money Grip?
Mamas, nag your saggers
Saunders:Who else out there has been tempted to approach one of these young men with pants hanging south of his equatorial region and ask, "What's up with that, yo?"
Justice grinds on ... and on
Saunders:Supporters of both convicted murderer Michael Peterson and disbarred former District Attorney Michael Nifong are trying to resurrect those long-thought-dead cases and get new trials or reversals.
No-dough meals tax? Here's how
Saunders:If there's one thing politicians like better than levying taxes, it's levying them on people who won't be voting for them anyway.
I do, I do -- vow to scram
Saunders:Next time I walk down the aisle, Sweet Thang and I will write our own vows.
Jackson is just jealous
By my count, we lost two Jesses this month.
Pinning Obama to the wall
Saunders:In his very entertaining and insightful book "Is There Life After High School," Ralph Keyes interviews writer Nora Ephron and hundreds of others about their lack of popularity in high school.
He left Iraq, but war followed him home
Saunders:Relax, Mr. President. This one won't show up in the stats of your war dead.
Easley's easy money
Saunders:You don't need to be Orlando Wilson or some other great fisherman to know that there is but one rule to fishing: If a catch is too small, you toss it back.
2 tall guys give area kids a lift
Nate James never had to worry about finding money to pay for basketball camp.
All gangs lead to prison
Saunders:I don't know about your friends, but mine go into hiding whenever I need to move even a piece of furniture. Jakiem Wilson was able to get two of his friends to help him conceal that he'd killed his wife.
Lawmen deserve a salute
Barry Saunders:How come, the writer who claimed to be a retired police chief asked me, "you have had something bad to say every time law enforcement screws up," yet you have nothing to say when two die in the line of duty?
Armed and dangerous
Saunders:What's that old joke - "Guns don't kill people: jealous husbands who come home early kill people"?
'Maury' by a landslide
Saunders:Tuesday was not, to paraphrase Churchill, our finest hour.
The travails of travel
Saunders:Basta! That's Italian for "Chill, homes." Sort of. So chill, homes. What did y'all want the governor to do, get a bus pass and eat canned Spaghetti-Os for supper?
Burning mad and burning up
Saunders:Here's my plea to the N.C. Utilities Commission: Whatever Duke Energy asks for, give it to 'em.
Funeral is final drama
Saunders:For someone who hated drama as much as Ryan Nicole Bryant did, this is no way for it to end.
Harper stars as savior
Saunders:It's a long, long way from playing "Aaron" -- the TV son that Al Bundy on "Married ... With Children" always wished he'd had instead of his actual slacker son, Bud -- to playing savior.
'68: Birthday of today's America
Saunders:Would you call it a miracle that someone who often can't remember what he had for breakfast 40 minutes earlier can remember precisely what he was doing during two key events 40 years ago?
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