Opinion

Dean Ridings: Congress considers legislation that would support local news organizations

By Dean Ridings In the past five months, Congress has responded to the coronavirus public health crisis with ...

My Turn

My turn, Susan Smith: Safety, joy found in volunteering with Rowan Helping Ministries

By Susan Smith Over the past several years, it has been my pleasure to volunteer at Rowan Helping ...

Columnists

John Hood: Demise of pipeline won’t halt natural gas

By John Hood RALEIGH — The proposed natural-gas pipeline through Eastern North Carolina is dead. Long live natural ...

Columnists

Leonard Pitts: What ruined Donald Trump? Family issues started early

By Leonard Pitts If the Trump family had never existed, someone would have invented them. Indeed, they’d have ...

Guest columns

Dean Ridings: Legislation would support local news outlets

By Dean Ridings In the past five months, Congress has responded to the coronavirus public health crisis with ...

Guest columns

Gary Pearce: Yes, 2020 could get worse

By Gary Pearce This year is just half over, and it could get twice as bad. The COVID ...

My Turn

My Turn, David Hagy: Can we see, understand decisions now?

By David Hagy What is the underlying purpose of statues of war leaders or anonymous soldiers? They give ...

My Turn

My Turn, Scott Maddox: Nobody wants to get an eye put out

By Scott Maddox For weeks, people have been discussing the reopening of schools in August. There is no ...

My Turn

My Turn, Olen Bruner: Most effective solutions created by, for people

By Rev. Olen V. Bruner Once again, the United States of America is on the move! Today’s movement ...

My Turn

My Turn, Kenya Jackson Morgan: More good than bad in community

By Kenya Jackson Morgan I have been really sad over the last month or so. The feeling of acceptance ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Who’s divisive in new American revolution?

By Cal Thomas As near as I can tell it began in 1995, when Republicans won control of ...

Guest columns

Cal Cunningham: COVID-19 crisis sends urgent call to action

By Cal Cunningham Growing up across the river in Lexington, I learned at a young age that when ...

Opinion

Gary Pearce: Should popular vote decide president?

By Gary Pearce From police to portraits and from statues to school buildings, Americans are taking a new ...

Opinion

Ada Fisher: World can’t be put on lockdown until vaccine is found

To open or not to open, that is the question. Food, clothing and shelter are major markers in ...

Opinion

D.G. Martin: Hail to the Redskins, or what?

By D.G. Martin What would Joe Oxendine say to the Washington NFL football team about its nickname? Oxendine, ...

Columnists

John Hood: Choice should guide school reopening

By John Hood RALEIGH — If you are among the minority of North Carolinians who haven’t supported the ...

My Turn

My Turn, Francis Koster: Racism played out in 1960s basic training

By Francis Koster As a child, I have no memory of seeing a person of color in Lakewood, ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: Chief Justice Roberts becomes unpredictable, sides with liberal judges

By Cal Thomas In providing the crucial fifth vote to strike down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Either way, things won’t end well

By Leonard Pitts Even if this ends well, it will not end well. Mind you, if it ends ...

Columnists

Byron York: Next election could determine DC statehood

By Byron York The drive to make Washington, D.C., a state has been a favorite of some Democrats ...

Guest columns

Harrison Peel: Tillis owes voters real answers

By Harrison Peel Sen. Thom Tillis claims he is listening to locals during the coronavirus crisis, but for ...

Opinion

Mitch Kokai: Put NC at front of line for recovery

By Mitch Kokai The furor over COVID-19 will fade. Eventually. Once that happens, North Carolina will compete in ...

Guest columns

Steve Roberts: Trump risks best re-election argument with immigration agenda

By Steve Roberts John Bolton, the former national security adviser, writes in his new book that President Trump ...

Opinion

John Hood: Progressive politicians damage downtowns

By John Hood RALEIGH — Conventional wisdom has it that progressives champion urbanity and conservatives disdain it. There’s ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Trump fails at uniting divided nation

By Cal Thomas President Trump’s speech last week in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a toxic stream of consciousness that ignored ...

Guest columns

Bob Orr: How to interpret Black Lives Matter

By Bob Orr Once again, a prominent leader in North Carolina is coming under intense criticism for responding ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Meanwhile, back at the pandemic

By Leonard Pitts The death toll now stands at more than 120,000. The United States, with roughly 4% ...

Guest columns

Ministers issue challenge for change in Rowan County

By the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship of  Rowan County To the community of Salisbury and Rowan County, we the ...

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