I’m a journalist today only because I stumbled into a job at the Independent and found an excuse to leave grad school. And only because, by the time I arrived in 1990, Steve Schewel and Katherine Fulton had built a weekly that aimed for greatness, every single issue, with a staff that wouldn’t have filled […]
Bob Moser
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Yesterday’s Gone
“Liberal?” exclaims Rose Marie Lowry-Townsend, rearing back in her seat and tossing up her hands. “Don’t be accusing me of that–Lord, I’m from Robeson County. You could get me in a lot of trouble!” She’s laughing, but she means it. A middle-school principal who lost a Democratic primary runoff for Congress in 1996, Lowry-Townsend sits […]
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From the Gut
When UNC men’s basketball chief Bill Guthridge stepped down on June 30, the 1998 national coach of the year got too choked up to read a statement to his players, and instead passed a handwritten copy to each of them. The Independent has obtained an alleged photocopy of Guthridge’s farewell from a thoroughly unreliable source, […]
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Enemies of the family
Three people I know, a mischievous lesbian couple and an affable gay schoolteacher just itching to be a daddy, had themselves a son this spring. Don’t ask me how. It did not seem polite to ask for details. I only know that Isak apparently could not wait to land in the arms of his parental […]
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Letter from the Editor
One of the choicest Civil War stories unfolded years after the cause was good and lost. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who led the last losing campaign against William Tecumseh Sherman’s “devils,” was no spring chicken himself when Sherman kicked the bucket. But while other white Southerners danced a figurative jig on their conqueror’s grave, Johnston […]