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Bowles may have been haunted by '72 race
Erskine Bowles didn't mean to deflate anybody's high hopes when he announced Thursday that he wouldn't seek the Democratic nomination for governor.
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John Railey: Tillis, Perdue just may make history together
State House Speaker Thom Tillis, under attack by many liberals for leading the way in severe cuts to public education, is on the verge of making state history in a positive, bipartisan way – with the Democratic governor who has lashed out at him on those cuts.
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Railey lays out the editorial board's Top 10 issues for 2012
2012 is going to be one wild ride, with politicians from President Obama down to county commissioners fighting to keep their jobs. And challengers fighting to take their jobs — with promises of how they'll create jobs to put all of our friends and neighbors back to work.
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Column: Railey imagines the Rev. King writing a most unlikely friend
What if the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive? Here's one supposition.
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Railey on the sterilization victims finding the guts to tell their stories
When I first met Charles Holt of Kernersville in June, he was letting his beloved stepdaughter, Melissa Hyatt, tell the story of his forced sterilization by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina.
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John Railey: Maybe 'The Good Old Days' are now
I've just returned from a trip back in time.
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Railey on a Christmas Day baby's special gifts
Merry Christmas, all. And Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday, Selma.
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Criticism means we're on the right track
We must be doing something right because people who differ about everything else agree that we're doing something wrong.
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John Railey: Victims and their promise lost in a never-never land
As the governor's task force on sterilization compensation took up how much that compensation should be during a meeting last week, they heard plenty of outrage from those the state rendered barren. But some of the main victims — the children those operated on never got to have — will never get a chance to speak. And their absence is one big reason why those sterilized are so outraged at $20,000 as a starting point for compensation that the task force discussed Tuesday.
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Attorney general should join fight for compensation for sterilization victims
Law and justice are not
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John Railey takes a walk through a plant with a wise woman
Ina Jean Stephens walked the floor of the gleaming new Caterpillar plant built on farmland that had been in her family for generations.
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Railey on the departure of the Flight of Honor – and that of some of our best vets
On Veterans Day, as several of his fellow World War II veterans made the last Flight of Honor, Clyde Duggins was buried with full military honors in a quiet churchyard in King.
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State should get serious about finding sterilization victims
Forty-eight sterilization victims. That's the sum total of victims the state has found after more than a year of half-hearted searching. That's shameful, considering how quickly earlier generations of state officials rounded up more than 7,600 victims to render them barren.
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Railey says political 'odd couple' could lead way in helping sterilization victims
Rep. Thom Tillis, the conservative Republican Speaker of the state House, and Rep. Larry Womble, a liberal Democratic member of the House, share little in common. But they're taking tentative steps at working together to achieve a noble goal that Womble's party blew for all the years it controlled the legislature: Helping the living victims of the state's forced sterilization program, which rendered barren more than 7,600 victims from 1929 through 1974.
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John Railey: The American dream that defines presidential elections
We're deep into the American Dream phase of the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election.
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Help for victims must come from unlikely allies
Railey column: Help for sterilization victims must from unlikely allies
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Railey says Fort Lauderdale is no Nags Head
Notes from a Fort Lauderdale vacation ...
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From 'Z' to 'A,' we're going backward on domestic violence
One of the first stories I covered was that of Zsa Zsa Cotton, who was killed by her husband in Suffolk, Va., back in 1985.
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Sterilization victims could finally be on verge of compensation
There's plenty of room for criticism of the state's new Republican majority. But there's also room for praise.
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A North Carolina mountain man who really did it his way
"In my lifetime, I've been blown up twice, I've totaled two cars, I've been shot at more than a few times, I've been beaten to a pulp, I've jumped out of airplanes and had bad things happen doing it, and I've lived through corporate wars and won."
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Railey on confronting the magnitude of the loss
I don't believe that what I was doing and thinking on Sept. 11, 2001, matter that much. Nor do I have any big thoughts about the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.
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John Railey: Was state sterilization program genocide?
"This was genocide." The writer Edwin Black, speaking of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program, dropped that bomb soon after he arrived in Winston-Salem to speak last week.
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Event here will raise timely issue of sterilization compensation
Thursday night, for the second time in four years, Winston-Salem State University will host an event that explores the chilling ramifications of this state's forced sterilization program.
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Forget, hell! It's past time for shared history
When William Styron came out with "The Confessions of Nat Turner" in 1967, his friend James Baldwin wrote that Styron "has begun the common history: Ours."
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Maybe Winston-Salem really is The New South
Look out Atlanta — we are the real New South.
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