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A Rabbit Hole Investigation: Did Sen. Richard Burr cast an official Senate vote in shorts?
The U.S. Senate got rid of its unofficial dress code, and people are sort of upset about it! But did North Carolina's once-senior senator break the code…
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Random Road Trip: Reidsville
I made a quick trip to a North Carolina town I've never visited before. Here are three quick impressions and a little bit of history to go with them.
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Hardly anybody votes in off-year elections. Why does North Carolina have them?
Generations ago, leaders thought local elections should be protected from state and national issues. We're still dealing with the effects of that…
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The story behind the GIF of a woman throwing an entire folding table during a brawl
Someone asked me to find a North Carolina connection to a viral brawl in Alabama. Here's something that's, maybe, even more legendary.
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Wake Forest's greatest football coach was a “con artist”
Peahead Walker led the Demon Deacons to arguably their greatest seasons ever. He also smoke, drank, cussed, paid his players, and lied about everything…
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Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him
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The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
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Clogger, TikTok Thyself
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An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
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A Guy in Raleigh Owns The World's Most Influential Cowbell
Before Will Ferrell made it famous, Blue Öyster Cult haphazardly added an instrument to one of it's biggest songs. A PR executive in North Carolina paid…
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Three Hole Punch: When School and Summer Collide
A story about tourism and school calendars, plus a mixup that cuts deep, and a potentially hurricane-proof power grid.
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Three Hole Punch: Summer Road Trips for Snakes, Bulls, and Wieners
This week: Weekend getaways and vacation plans involving a dead fast-food restaurant chain, a seafood-loving snake, and a freedom-loving cow.
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A Guide to "The Fugitive's" North Carolina
Thirty years ago, Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones starred a legendary action movie. Three decades later, a lot of pieces from the film are still out…
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The only motel in the state with a swimming pool inside a damn bubble
This state once had... this! So what happened to this place? And did the bubble actually work?
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Charlotte's tearing down a 91-year-old building with, uh, quite a history
One of the city's oldest buildings is being demolished, and its full story hasn't been told until now. So, was it historic? Or was it just old?
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3 Hole Punch: Cooter reacts to last week's newsletter
The former Dukes of Hazzard star turned Democratic congressman was one of several people who wrote in about my story about North Carolina's white…
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Why's it taking so long to get rid of North Carolina's white supremacist statues at the U.S. Capitol?
Statues of Zebulon Vance and Charles Aycock have represented this state in Washington, D.C. for about a century. One of them was set to be replaced, but…
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The Ballad of the Wiener King
Once upon a time, a hot dog joint based in Charlotte was the fastest growing fast-food chain in America. Then it vanished. Today, there's one Wiener…
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