Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: More Americans wanted

Wanted: More Americans! In a little-noticed announcement released during the holiday season, the Census Bureau reported that the ...

Guest columns

Lisa Altmann: Why farmers are important to school meals

By Lisa Altmann The N.C. Farm to School Program was founded in 1997. N.C. farmers are a tremendous ...

Opinion

Alexander Jones: Affirmative action strengthens higher education

By Alexander H. Jones The guts of the college admissions process are distasteful. Whatever else may be said ...

Opinion

DG Martin: Lottery or bitcoin?

How are the state lottery and bitcoins alike? Or a better question: is a bitcoin purchase better than ...

Opinion

Marybe McMillan: Rare opportunity for Congress to help American competitiveness

When President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November, it was a major win for American workers ...

Columnists

Sharon Randall: What makes a birthday worth remembering?

My husband and I both celebrate our birthdays this month. One of us is getting older. Never mind ...

Columnists

John Hood: NC will remain battleground state

North Carolina has been politically competitive for a long time. It will remain so for the foreseeable future, ...

My Turn

My Turn, Renee C. Scheidt: Robinson serves as an example of overcoming adversity

By Renee C. Scheidt “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters,” ...

Opinion

Kenneth L. Hardin: Will you find your gift, share it?

By Kenneth L. Hardin I honestly believe each one of us was born with a purpose or a ...

Opinion

Guest columnists: NC school funding increases do not tell whole story

By Walter Hart, Eric Houck and Jim Watson We recently read a My Turn column in the Post ...

Opinion

Byron York: GOP backward or forward?

There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the ...

Opinion

Steve V. Roberts: Who are the real conservatives?

Who are the real conservatives in the Republican Party? Certainly not Donald Trump and his tribe of true ...

My Turn

My Turn, Ronnie Smith: National cemetery vital for families in region

By Ronnie Smith As an Air Force and Vietnam veteran, a member of our local veterans’ organizations, including ...

Opinion

Mike Walden: Did chances of recession go up?

By Mike Walden Recessions are part of the economic cycle. Each economic cycle contains a period of growth ...

My Turn

My Turn, Tony Jones: Get to know sheriff candidates

By Tony Jones I’m wondering why people are only talking about these candidates for Rowan County sheriff. There’s ...

Opinion

Ada Fisher: Voter rights are already guaranteed

By Ada Fisher One of North Carolina’s greatest U.S. senators was Democrat Samuel James Ervin, Jr., (1954-1974) a ...

Columnists

Alexander H. Jones: Democrats have hope in ‘countrypolitan’ areas

By Alexander H. Jones Recently, Duke University researchers Mac McCorkle and Rachel Salzberg published an insightful report on ...

Columnists

DG Martin: They just want your money

By D.G. Martin Have you heard from President Trump today? Or is your email box filled with messages ...

Columnists

John Hood: Political labels can be artificial

By John Hood RALEIGH — In this era of increasing partisan polarization, is the “middle” shrinking before our ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: How to be somebody

By Sharon Randall Have you ever wanted to be somebody? I mean, other than the somebody that you ...

My Turn

My Turn, Pam Everhardt Bloom: Let’s stop and think

By Pam Everhardt Bloom Recent news about what makes people “uncomfortable’’ and how they react leads me to ...

Guest columns

Kenneth L. Hardin: News brings back memories of unenviable task

By Kenneth L. Hardin In the more than two decades I worked in hospitals across this country, the ...

Guest columns

Leonard Pitts: Diversity requires intentionality

By Leonard Pitts We don’t even know the woman’s name yet. In fact, we don’t know much of ...

Guest columns

Cal Thomas: Widow’s eloquence after crime

By Cal Thomas Trust in government has been declining since the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. According to ...

Opinion

Byron York: Biden drags Democrats down

Most of us see President Joe Biden’s falling job approval rating as a measure of his declining popularity. ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: Two endangered precedents

For 15 days in June of 1971, a federal court barred The New York Times from publishing the ...

Opinion

My Turn, Phil Kirk: Has legislature actually been stingy with education funding?

By Phil Kirk A recent letter accusing the Republican-led General Assembly of being stingy for education with funding left ...

Opinion

Alexander Jones: Democrats need the working class

Between the year 2000 and 2020, the percentage of Americans with a college degree nearly doubled. At the ...

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