Growing up in the misty hollers of Western North Carolina, Papaw would toss me into the cab of his old pickup and point us toward the gemstone mines tucked into the hills around Canton.
These days, it feels like I’m pointing the car toward Raleigh every couple of weeks. One trip it’s to record podcast interviews. The next, it’s to stand in front of NC reps and plead for a little common sense—which is…
