Opinion

Kris Nordstrom: Legislators must act on plan to deliver students the schools they are owed

For nearly three decades, state lawmakers from both parties have violated the basic constitutional rights of North Carolina’s ...

Opinion

Kenneth L. Hardin: Some protesters should just go sit down

“Boy, if you don’t go somewhere and sit down!”  Those were the words my maternal grandmother frequently uttered ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: We are all witnesses

“Many are calling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the TikTok war,” reports CNN. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman ...

Opinion

Byron York: Has Biden’s presidency been transformed?

Russia’s war on Ukraine comes at a moment of political weakness for President Joe Biden. His job approval ...

Columnists

Ada Fisher: On cancel culture, coarse speech and parties rewriting history

By Ada Fisher “Cancel Culture,” whatever that means, promotes a political correctness in words and deeds that is ...

Columnists

My Turn, Phil Kirk: Give credit where it’s due

By Phil Kirk While three authors of a column published Feb. 13 (“NC school funding increases do not ...

Columnists

Alexander H. Jones: State’s leaders are failing rural North Carolina

By Alexander H. Jones Between the year 2000 and the end of that decade, North Carolina was the ...

Guest columns

DG Martin: Life experience led Dellinger to fight discrimination

By D.G. Martin The tributes that rolled in when North Carolina lawyer Walter Dellinger died Feb. 16 were ...

Guest columns

John Hood: The tale of NC’s crooked-necked John

The early history of North Carolina is full of fascinating characters. John Kincaid was one of them. A ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: What’s your story?

By Sharon Randall What’s your story? The one you’ve been learning all your life, that tells where you’ve ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Failing to understand evil — then and now

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine under several pretexts reminds me of Adolf ...

Opinion

Kenneth L. Hardin: We have to teach our kids to dream of a bright future

I recall reading an article years ago where a reporter was eavesdropping on a group of young Black ...

Opinion

My Turn, Carol Hallman: Pray for peace in times of war

By Carol Hallman Why is this important to us, the people of Salisbury, to pray for peace? Many ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: One of the last sane places on Earth

Oh, Canada. Really? Et tu? It’s been a few years since my last visit: My wife and I ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: How to own the future

Both national parties represent broad coalitions of wide-ranging interests, otherwise they couldn’t win elections in such a vast ...

Opinion

Byron York: The (continuing) border crisis

These days, the news is dominated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with ...

Opinion

Ray Nothstine: Voters, not election board, should decide on Cawthorn

By Ray Nothstine Being giddy about the possibility of barring Madison Cawthorn’s attempt to return to Congress is ...

Guest columns

Alexander H. Jones: GOP advantage in 50-50 state won’t continue forever

By Alexander H. Jones The last five statewide North Carolina elections have been decided by 2%, 1.5%, 3.7%, ...

Columnists

DG Martin: Finding the best for PBS NC

By D.G. Martin Earlier this month Lindsay Bierman, leader of North Carolina’s public television network since August 2019, ...

Guest columns

Mike Walden: Rethinking international trade’s costs

By Mike Walden As the country recovers from the COVID-19 recession, numerous questions are being raised about the ...

Guest columns

Clyde: What to do with all that stuff?

Chill airs and wintry winds!  My ear Has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the ...

Columnists

Sharon Randall: Cards can be unexpected, priceless gift

By Sharon Randall The birthday card made me laugh. A man and a woman of a certain age ...

Guest columns

John Hood: Sidelined workers help fuel inflation

By John Hood What’s the hottest political issue right now? According to recent poll results, it’s inflation. Welcome ...

Opinion

David Post: Kiva — loans that change lives

Money makes the world go round! If you have it, a lot of things work. If you don’t, ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Mayor Eric Adams is half right

It is usually Republicans who blast the media for what they consider biased or unfair coverage of their ...

Opinion

Kenneth L. Hardin: Real leaders put in the work

Now that we’re several weeks into 2022, I admit I never bought into that January 1st “New Year, ...

Columnists

My Turn, Evelyn Uddin-khan: Is race an illusion or a reality?

By Evelyn Uddin-khan One wonders: would the world have been a better place without racial differences? Would we ...

Opinion

Byron York: Yes, they spied on Trump

One of the most contentious claims Donald Trump ever made was his insistence that he had been the ...

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