The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.