March 2023

Bullish on Baseball (and Durham)

A file photo of the Durham Athletic Park. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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.

Courtesy of Penguin Random House

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

Dr. Benjamin Gilmer (Photo by Cappy Phalen)

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

Inside 50 West 4th, which once housed the Forsyth County Courthouse.

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

Chairs lined up for assembly at the Catawba Valley Furniture Academy.

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

Inside a Century Furniture factory.

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.

Gov. Roy Cooper delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the N.C. General Assembly on March 6.

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.