Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: Lord of the lies

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts President Donald Trump is waging a relentless war on facts and ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Memories with butter and jam

Memory likes to play tricks on us, taking us places we once loved, but haven’t seen in years. ...

Columnists

Kirk Kovach: Ruling’s reaction shows legislative leaders’ hypocrisy

By Kirk Kovach Last Friday, a Wake County Superior Judge threw out two recent state constitutional amendments — ...

Opinion Main

Ada Fisher: Help our HBCUs by forgiving their debts

By Ada Fisher As one of the last generations whose direct ancestors was a slave, here are a ...

Guest columns

Guest columnist: Things we learned during 9th District hearings

By Tom Campbell We’ve had time to digest last week’s 9th District congressional hearings, so let’s state some ...

Columnists

Leonard Pitts: Love isn’t true when it requires coercion

By Leonard Pitts There’s an old song that always comes to mind at times like this. “I’m Gonna ...

Opinion

John Hood: Judge’s ruling hands GOP potent election issue

RALEIGH — Arguing that GOP-tiled districts had rendered elected lawmakers “usurpers” who “did not represent the people of ...

Columnists

Colin Campbell: Why not pursue redistricting reform now?

By Colin Campbell RALEIGH — Ten years ago this month, a group of state legislators filed a proposal ...

Clyde

Clyde: Some just slow us down; others bring to stop

By Clyde Some things just slow you down. A hang nail, a fly in your soup, an ink ...

Columnists

Josh Bergeron: Transparency for local news, too

While the methods by which local news is delivered to readers or viewers have changed with the rapid ...

Guest columns

Dale Folwell: State health plan changes will provide transparency

By Dale Folwell Everyone has been there — you are sick or hurt and need medical attention. When ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: President Trump’s critics started with wrong premise

By Cal Thomas Here is the problem for Trump critics: They began with the wrong premise. They believed ...

Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: The wall is symbolic, not real

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts Here’s the truth about President Trump’s border wall: He doesn’t really ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Taking life four miles at a time

From my home on California’s Monterey Peninsula, there is no easy way to get anywhere.    To go ...

Guest columns

Guest column: School day, calendar out of sync with current times

By Ferrel Guillory Many local school districts have asked the General Assembly to free them from the rigid ...

Guest columns

Leonard Pitts: Green New Deal reminds of ambition in America’s DNA

By Leonard Pitts “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, ...

Opinion

John Hood: Should we measure gross domestic happiness?

RALEIGH — Is it the job of government to make you happy? While it may seem like a ...

Opinion

Colin Campbell: Party leaders won’t confront most extreme members

By Colin Campbell RALEIGH — There’s one in every family: The embarrassing relative who spouts off conspiracy theories ...

Lifestyle

David Freeze: Gotta Run

Aging gracefully with your running Exactly 20 years ago, I didn’t think about getting older at all and ...

Columnists

Josh Bergeron: Documents raise more questions about Landis’ finances

Eight days after Landis Mayor Mike Mahaley encouraged locals to file open-records requests and made a verbal commitment ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: How could church allow behavior by leaders?

By Cal Thomas My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist church had ...

Clyde

Clyde: No cure for nostalgia, except self-immersion

By Clyde Oh, nostalgia, why do you linger to haunt us still? With fond memories as your escort ...

Columnists

Whitey Harwood: Veterans don’t support memorial wall

By Whitey Harwood The letter to the editor’s headline on Jan. 31 stated “Veterans support Rowan memorial wall.” ...

Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: Snow can’t stop her

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts It snowed on Amy Klobuchar as she announced her run for ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Roads of life and marriage

It’s a strange thing, an act of foolishness or faith, to put your life in someone else’s hands. ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Ridicule of sorrow is last great death of cultures

By Leonard Pitts A few words about the Trail of Tears and other jokes. Granted, the Trail of ...

Columnists

Kirk Kovach: In Raleigh, politics takes break from usual division

By Kirk Kovach To read most of the stories coming out of Raleigh, let alone Washington, D.C., you ...

Columnists

John Hood: Economic growth closely tied to worker pay

RALEIGH — If the most important factor determining the welfare of workers is the growth rate of the ...

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