Columnists

John Hood: Change must come for NC state health plan’s opaque pricing

By John Hood RALEIGH — When State Treasurer Dale Folwell took office in early 2017, he found North ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: Will justice ever come for Comey’s missteps?

By Cal Thomas One doesn’t have to be a cynic to be cynical about the Justice Department’s decision ...

Columnists

Steve and Cokie Roberts: US economy needs immigrants

By Steve and Cokie Roberts One of the most persistent and pernicious myths in American politics is that ...

Health

David Freeze: Gotta’ Run

Resting heart rate and why it matters   When I teach a group class, I usually ask a ...

Lifestyle

Kent Bernhardt: These things called computers

I’m convinced that most of the problems we have with our computers on a day to day basis ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Letting go is never easy

Slowly, we are trying to unpack in a new house that’s half the size of the old one ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Cruelty is the point, but are practices also evil?

By Leonard Pitts We meet, my friends, in the face of evil. In popular culture and historical memory, ...

My Turn

My turn, Michael Stringer: Surround park with timeline of history

By Michael Stringer I stood on the library steps in Salisbury looking over the clearing of old-growth trees ...

Guest columns

Bill Graham: Catawba tribe’s resort is much-needed in Charlotte region

By Bill Graham Maybe once in a generation, if it’s lucky, a community gets a shot at landing ...

Columnists

Kirk Kovach: Abolish death penalty to prevent one from being wrongfully killed

By Kirk Kovach Max Weber, a pre-eminent 19th-century political scientist, described the state as “a human community that ...

Guest columns

Guest columnist: NC needs representation, not blind allegiance

By Becki Gray What’s at stake without a budget? Try as they might, the General Assembly has had ...

Opinion

My turn, Jackie Miller: Protected bike lanes good for Salisbury

By Jackie Miller A biking community is a healthy community. The images of becoming a healthier community are ...

Guest columns

Thomas Mills: Trump is perfect messenger for Bishop in 9th District

By Thomas Mills Donald Trump is coming to North Carolina again. This time, he’s coming to rally the ...

Columnists

Josh Bergeron: In RSS, public education system of future still under construction

How do you fundamentally transform a school system’s curriculum and the method by which students are judged while ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: You didn’t build that II: More rewriting of history

By Cal Thomas Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Barack Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, ...

Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: Trump’s ‘self-inflicted wound’

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Donald Trump knows his re-election depends heavily on a healthy ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Tell me another story

Where do stories come from? Why do they surface in our memories at unexpected times and make us ...

Columnists

Leonard Pitts: Knowledge is valuable currency, not the enemy

By Leonard Pitts You’d think it would be the one thing we could all agree upon. Life grows ...

Guest columns

Kristen Blair: Smarter strategies emerge for preventing harm in NC schools

By Kristen Blair A new school year is here, bringing new strategies for keeping kids safe. Topping the ...

Opinion

Jennifer Rubin: Democratic debates get much-needed winnowing

By Jennifer Rubin If you remember the Agatha Christie mystery in which 10 people mysteriously die one after ...

Guest columns

Marc Thiessen: Why can’t Israel boycott them?

By Marc Thiessen WASHINGTON — During a news conference on Monday, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., accused Israel of ...

Opinion

Byron York: Is age concerning for voters?

By Byron York Here are the ages that the top presidential candidates will be on Inauguration Day, 2021: ...

Columnists

D.G. Martin: Do we owe somebody an apology?

By D.G. Martin What does a story told by a Jewish rabbi late last month at Chautauqua, New ...

Columnists

John Hood: Regulatory closet gets summer cleaning

By John Hood RALEIGH — Because Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly have ...

Columnists

Steve and Cokie Roberts: President should be consoler-in-chief

By Steve and Cokie Roberts In times of trouble, the nation needs a consoler-in-chief: a leader who lifts ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: Long-needed pushback against socialism arrives

By Cal Thomas President Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt ...

Health

David Freeze: Gotta Run

My own running watch, what matters to me! Decent running watches have been out for more than 20 ...

Columnists

Whitey Harwood: Wish I could have been there

By Whitey Harwood Iwas tickled pink when I read that I was invited to the open house for ...

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