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

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 ...

Guest columns

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 ...

Guest columns

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 ...

Columnists

Nalini Jospeh: Christmas lesson on combatting greed

My 10-year-old son, Rohan, had a little meltdown a few minutes after his father and I unequivocally and ...

Columnists

Josh Bergeron: What should new superintendent know about Salisbury-Rowan?

It’s not easy to move into a new job in a new community. Particularly in leadership positions, it ...

Opinion

Francis Koster: Congress is handcuffing federal law enforcement

By Francis Koster When I was a kid, my mother used to start all serious conversations with some ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: What gifts will you give for Christmas?

By Sharon Randall What gift are you hoping to get this Christmas? And what gift are you hoping ...

Opinion

Roger Barbee column: Power of the dog

By Roger Barbee Much news and many comments have been written and spoken concerning the recent news conference ...

Guest columns

Gary Pearce: Campaigns envision different paths in still-tight NC Supreme Court race

By Gary Pearce Our closest election ever gives us our closest look ever at how votes are counted ...

Columnists

John Hood: Will you get the vaccine?

By John Hood RALEIGH — Despite the current spike in COVID-19 infections and deaths, there is good news ...

Columnists

Nalini Joseph: Application, not just memorization, most important for children

By Nalini Joseph For decades, our school systems have done a great job of educating our children: drilling ...

Columnists

Kathryn Lopez: Argentina and learning the wrong lessons about abortion

By Kathryn Lopez Argentina — the home country of Pope Francis — is currently in a fight over ...

Lifestyle

Christopher Magryta: Policy changes to dramatically alter health landscape, combat obesity

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the newsletter of Dr. Christopher Magryta, who works at Salisbury Pediatric ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: The dog, the fracture and the ‘palmists’

By Cal Thomas Whenever president-elect Joe Biden makes a rare public appearance and is out of the immediate ...

Opinion

Francis Koster: Take care of the caregivers

By Francis Koster My father was a fireman and ambulance driver in a small town in Ohio. I ...

Opinion

York column: Goodbye to ‘peace through strength’?

By Byron York President-elect Joe Biden named his national security team last week. Antony Blinken will be nominated ...

Opinion

Roberts column: A strength, not a weakness

By Steven V. Roberts A great many issues are competing for President-elect Biden’s attention, and the combination of a ...

Opinion

John Hood column: When shorthand gets it wrong

By John Hood RALEIGH — If the Republican Party were only the party of white men, it would ...

Opinion

Pitts column: It’s time to break our addiction to Trump

Dear Colleagues: Well, that was … normal. President-elect Biden slips while playing with his dog on Saturday and ...

Opinion

Gary Pearce: ‘Defund the police’ undid the Democrats

By Gary Pearce In science and philosophy, it’s called “Occam’s Razor:” the problem-solving principle that the simplest explanation ...

Opinion

Ada Fisher: All Trumped out after 2020

By Ada Fisher By now, most on the opposite side who tried to impale President Trump by media, ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: Most unusual Thanksgiving

By Cal Thomas I have loved song lyrics since briefly flirting in my teens and early 20s with ...

Opinion

Christopher Magryta: Prepare children for winter in 2020

Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the newsletter of Dr. Christopher Magryta, who works at Salisbury ...

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