Opinion
Dr. Mike Walden: Did COVID permanently change the labor market?
Dr. Mike Walden I doubt that anyone alive during the COVID pandemic will forget it. One reason is many of us are reminded of it ...
Dr. Mike Walden I doubt that anyone alive during the COVID pandemic will forget it. One reason is many of us are reminded of it ...
By Alexander H. Jones I have admired Joe Biden for the entire time I have followed politics. I supported his primary candidacy in 2020, cast ...
By Rebecca Wells Since the release of Vance’s book, I have grappled with his portrayal of the Appalachian community. His voice, often derogatory and rooted ...
By Elisabeth Strillacci Let’s talk words and language this week, since I’ve been doing a lot of reading and have been reminded, once again, how ...
By Renee Scheidt It’s common sense that only American citizens vote in American elections. But 198 U.S. House Democrats proved this past week they’re OK ...
By Brad Rhodes Investing can be a powerful tool for building wealth, but it also comes with risks that can create significant anxiety for many ...
By Rob Schofield As with all such horrific acts of political violence throughout American history, this past weekend’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump ...
By Cal Thomas “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds ...
By Duane Galloway Dear Neighbor, Since the early cave drawings, humans have used storytelling as a way to caution and instruct. I have recently enjoyed ...
By John Hood RALEIGH — Enough. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a despicable and indefensible act that came within a whisker of success, should ...
By Kenneth L. Hardin You can’t create an atmosphere of violence with continual hate-filled rhetoric and then expect people to not act accordingly. You can’t ...
By Ted W. Goins Jr. Our federal government has lost common sense by adopting the same staffing requirement in every nursing home in the United ...
By Kenneth L. Hardin Back in the mid 2000s, I had the opportunity to be trained in the Disney customer service model and eventually became ...
By Clyde Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, but we gave the first call for an indissoluble union before anyone else. We are not listed in the ...
By Brad Rhodes Planning for retirement is one of the most crucial financial endeavors you will undertake in your lifetime. With the right strategies, you ...
By Kathryn Jean Lopez “The whole town. The whole town wants kids now!” The caseworker with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services was ...
By D.G. Martin Last week, we celebrated the anniversary of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. This declaration, important as it was and is, ...
By Lib Campbell Everybody who watched the presidential debate last Thursday saw Joe Biden stumble and mumble. He looked like he had the flu or ...
By Kim Porter Dear Neighbor, Have you ever perceived something and it was totally erroneous? You observed a “happening,” figured it out, made a decision ...
By D.G. Martin My father had been president of Davidson College for almost 10 years when at age 58 he learned that he was afflicted ...
Dr. Mike Walden I grew up in a rural region outside of Cincinnati in the 1950s and early ’60s. Our home was around the corner ...
By Michael S. Young The city of Salisbury is playing fast and loose with the term “pilot program” to institutionalize change in perpetuity. This has ...
By Kenneth L. Hardin It must be nice to be able to utter thoughtless and ignorant remarks and not worry about whether the receiver will ...
By Brad Rhodes Albert Einstein once said “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, ...
By John Hood North Carolina voters will be asked this fall to remove a troubling ambiguity in the state constitution. An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of ...
Abortion laws Why do some conservative politicians continue to blame women for abortions? They are working against the Pro-Life movement. I and many women can ...
By Elisabeth Strillacci Over more than 35 years of journalism, especially since my beat for more than 25 of those years was cops and courts, ...
By Lib Campbell “A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my love and on the way, I lost ...
Friday’s contest between the Louisville Cardinals (2-1) and Winthrop Eagles (4-2) at KFC Yum! Center has a projected…
Friday’s college basketball schedule includes four games featuring a ranked team in play. Among those contests is the…
Against the Kansas City Chiefs (9-1), the Carolina Panthers (3-7) are double-digit underdogs (-10.5) on Sunday, November 24,…
The Thursday college basketball schedule includes two games featuring a Big South team in action. Among those contests…
The Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs (1-4) will attempt to end a four-game losing skid when visiting the Charlotte 49ers…