Many years ago, a distant relative of mine had a problem she wanted me to fix. She was scheduled to go on a cruise to the Caribbean in a few days. She was told she needed a passport or a birth certificate. She had  neither. I had legislative connections. She told me that she had always lived […]

I dictated this memoir on Presidents’ Day. It is too early to cover Presidents 44, 45, 46 and 47. I cover the others who were in office during my life on earth. This is what I remember from many years ago. I have not “fact checked” as I usually do. The Reader’s memory and the […]

Friends, Twice I ran for the Court of Appeals – in 1998 and 2000. Each time it was a squeaker. The primary on March 3rd is only 19 days away. Early voting has already started. Michael has 20+ times more relevant experience for a potential Judge of the Court of Appeals than the other candidate. […]

1. Persistence. Woman’s Right to Know (the Risks of Abortion) took 30 years from initial passage in the State Senate (1981) until it became law in 2011. The State Abortion Fund took 17 years (1978-1995) to effectively end. The “good faith” exception to the exclusionary rule took 23 years from when it was conceived in […]

Why would I admit this? It started innocently enough. My mother was Danish American. She told me that Leif Erikson was my ancestor. That sounded cool when I was a young man, to be related to the first European discoverer of America. That was about 500 years before Columbus brought over three boatloads of Hispanics with […]

James B. Hunt, Jr. died December 18, 2025. He served four terms as North Carolina’s governor from 1977 to the end of 1984 and then from 1993 to the end of 2000. He was the most consequential governor in North Carolina history and had many merits that I appreciate. He was diligent, productive, pragmatic and […]