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Guest columnist: Broadband tops list of legislative priorities for upcoming session

By Becki Gray The General Assembly will convene its biennial session Jan. 13. They’ll talk about how to get ...

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Thomas Mills: Registering voters should be Democrats’ resolution for 2021

By Thomas Mills Yesterday, I took a first look at turnout from the 2020 election. What keeps haunting me ...

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My Turn, Michael Young: What’s wrong with this streetscape?

By Michael Young Having just completed a streetscape improvement project in the first two blocks of East and ...

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DG Martin: Rudolph’s little brother

By D.G. Martin I know Rudolph’s little brother. And now that Rudolph and the other reindeer are safely ...

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Gary Pearce: 2022 Senate race may fuel family fights

By Gary Pearce A “transition” is the time after an election when you stop fighting your enemies and ...

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Sharon Randall: Family feuds and Walmart generators

By Sharon Randall People say things happen for a reason. But sometimes it’s hard to say what the ...

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John Hood: Lower taxes attract key leaders

By John Hood RALEIGH — When Democrats attack pro-growth tax reform as “trickle-down economics,” I can understand their ...

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Josh Bergeron: Resolutions worth adopting in 2021

New Year’s resolutions aren’t for everyone. A lot of people simply don’t make them. Others abandon them quickly ...

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Francis Koster: Is America being naughty or nice?

By Francis Koster My mom and dad always ended the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period exhausted. They ...

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My Turn, Raymond Coltrain: Leaders should do what’s best for people, not egos

By Raymond Coltrain I began my career working for the public with government agencies in the early ‘70s ...

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Kathryn Lopez: Christian examples and warnings

By Kathryn Lopez “In times of trouble, it’s always the most vulnerable who suffer the worst,” Archbishop Bashar ...

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Cal Thomas: Christmas’ power unlike other holidays

By Cal Thomas Of all the great and small events of 1991, the death of CBS News’ “60 ...

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Nalini Joseph: Share stories, wisdom with children on path to greatness

By Nalini Joseph I have often reminisced about my childhood Christmases in India. In a primarily Hindu country, ...

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Ada Fisher: Post-election considerations being missed

By Ada Fisher By law the administration of Donald John Trump will end officially on Jan. 6 when ...

Opinion

DG Martin: Authors take different views on saving college sports, solving compensation questions

By D.G. Martin Is the U.S. Supreme Court going to put college athletics out of business? Last week, ...

Columnists

Gary Pearce: Why do Democrats want to run for Senate?

By Gary Pearce I don’t understand why Democrats want to run for North Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat in ...

Opinion

John Hood: NC SPIN reaches its end

RALEIGH — May I tell you a bit about the pioneering Campbells of eastern North Carolina? The patriarch ...

My Turn

My Turn, Lynn Moody: Rowan-Salisbury will always hold a special place in my heart

By Lynn Moody It is with so many fond memories and with so many mixed emotions that I ...

Opinion

Nalini Joseph: Essential things on path to greatness

By Nalini Joseph “In essential things there must be unity, in matters of opinion there may be diversity, ...

Columnists

Kathryn Lopez: The year of St. Joe

By Kathryn Lopez This is the year of Joe. Not Biden. But the main man in the Nativity ...

Opinion

Francis Koster: Be creative to rescue student education, slow virus

By Francis Koster Chances of catching COVID-19 are 18 times higher if you are exposed to someone who ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: After Trump, what (and who) comes next for GOP?

By Cal Thomas At the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) delivered a ...

Opinion

Byron York column: ‘Misinformation’ and the 2020 vote

L ooking at reporting and discussion of the 2020 presidential campaign, has any word been misused as often ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts column: The best gift of all

L ooking for a last-minute gift idea? Here’s one: Donate to your local food bank, and send the ...

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Sharon Randall: Your Christmas dream

The best gifts don’t wait for Christmas. They show up when we need them. On September 1, 2001, ...

Opinion

Guest column: Why do teacher unions want to keep your schools closed?

By Terry Stoops Last weekend, the Chicago Teachers Union tweeted that efforts to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 ...

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Gary Pearce: Cooper, Biden in similar boats

By Gary Pearce Gov. Roy Cooper and President-elect Joe Biden are similar politicians who face similar challenges the ...

Opinion

John Hood: Use reserves to help North Carolinians hurt by regulation

By John Hood RALEIGH — As of November, North Carolina’s state government has some $4 billion in unreserved ...

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