What is grown high up in the Andes Mountains of Peru, is related to the radish and has a host of purported health benefits?

Maca root. 

Questions over spelling and grammar are not uncommon among the folks here at The News Observer.

Neither are discussions over style, such as how a word is or is not abbreviated.

Blue Ridge City Councilman Nathan Fitts challenged the public at a town hall meeting Wednesday, February 5, to “come up with a better solution and we’ll praise you.”

Last week, I read a phrase that gave me a good laugh. It said, “January was a tough year, but we made it.”

Hiding behind a cloak of secrecy and turning their backs on the principle of Georgia’s open meetings law, Blue Ridge’s elected officials have adopted a resolution seeking annexation of several mile

There it was on the cover of an aging copy of Prevention magazine: a teaser headline that said, “How to be 40 percent Happier (Seriously).”

Some stories that you read in The News Observer are harder for us to report than others.

Hats off to the members of the Blue Ridge City Council for increasing the pay for the city’s police officers. 

Did you know the more you recall an event the more your mind misconstrues the details? An easy way to understand this is by referring to a game of telephone.

We’re a throw away society. If something breaks or grows old it goes out with the trash so it can be replaced by something new and shiny.