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Maybe Gov. Pat McCrory and the N.C. Department of Transportation are onto something. Sure, it’s culturally and politically insensitive to start branding people with labels on their driver’s licenses. Right enough, many of the people who would receive these special provisionary licenses are Hispanic immigrants who were brought to this country as children and haven’t…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: By Wes Platt I had the baby in his car seat clutched in my left hand as I worked the key in the door of our house while fireworks popped and crackled in the night sky over Watts-Hillandale. I could hear our dog, Huck, barking upstairs. “Probably locked himself…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: By Wes Platt I’m sociable when I have to be. But, by and large, I wouldn’t call myself a terribly social person. In fact, I confess, I’m just this side of a hermit. My wife Catherine, on the other hand, thrives on opportunities to socialize. She’s the gregarious one….
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: By Wes Platt Janis Joplin wailed from Catherine’s pocket as Sam Eagle explained that he would perform a salute to all nations “but mostly America.” It was Sunday afternoon, Memorial Day weekend, and we were in the middle of the theater at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for Muppetvision 3D when…