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Cal Thomas: The Russians are coming again

By Cal Thomas The Russians are like the devil. Each gets blamed (or credited) with more than they ...

Opinion

John Hood: Easy grades produce hard landings

RALEIGH — Walt Disney was no stranger to adversity. He grew up in a large, itinerant family of ...

Guest columns

Bob Hall: Tips for voting in primary

By Bob Hall All the chatter about hacking voting machines and fake ads can be overwhelming, but don’t ...

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Ada Fisher: Black Americans must be part of telling own story

By Ada Fisher The sad state of black affairs is the trolling for black votes and misrepresentation of ...

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Leonard Pitts: Living in post-integrity America

By Leonard Pitts Back during the scandal over his sexual exploitation of a young intern, Bill Clinton was ...

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Cal Thomas: Bloomberg didn’t get it done

By Cal Thomas The only thing that can be said about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ...

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My Turn: Alexander’s, Post’s arguments on designation don’t compute

By Karen Lilly-Bowyer It seems clear that the Grubb-Sigmon-Weisiger House was used as a political pawn at Tuesday’s ...

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Sharon Randall: Holding world in palm of hand

By Sharon Randall Do you remember the first time you held the world in the palm of your ...

Guest columns

D.G Martin: Politicians often capitalize on book sales

By D.G. Martin “Politics and books don’t mix well. You need to decide which one you’re going to ...

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John Hood: Fracking the cause for emissions drop in NC

By John Hood RALEIGH — In 2018, Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order on climate change that, ...

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Leonard Pitts: Is ‘vote blue, no matter who’ the right answer?

By Leonard Pitts Vote blue, no matter who. That’s the fall election mantra of Democrats desperate to cleanse ...

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Steve Roberts: ‘Mayor Pete’ has much in common with past winners

By Steve Roberts Pete Buttigieg is still a long shot to win the Democratic nomination, let alone the ...

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Cal Thomas: DeVos doubles down on education reform

By Cal Thomas I recently interviewed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who claimed the president’s proposed $4.8 trillion ...

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Sharon Randall: Take a ride on ‘Birthday Express’

By Sharon Randall Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about birthdays. Why? From the end of ...

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Ferrel Guillory: Rising education narrows earnings gap

By Ferrel Guillory In the late 1990s, education data showed a widening gender gap in higher education enrollment ...

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John Hood: Make it easier to work in NC

By John Hood RALEIGH — North Carolina’s unemployment rate averaged 3.9 percent during 2019. For economists, that rate ...

My Turn

My turn, Susan Williams: Trash collection part of city’s litter problem

By Susan Williams I personally believe litter in Salisbury is a problem that will take not only the ...

My Turn

My Turn, Deedee Wright: Achievements of women should be recognized

By Deedee Wright I have been a reader of the Salisbury Post for many years and read the ...

Columnists

Cal Thomas: The state of President Trump

By Cal Thomas The president’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night resembled a campaign rally. Some Republicans ...

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Leonard Pitts: GOP playing the game by different rules

By Leonard Pitts Let’s try a thought experiment. Suppose your friend invites you to play Monopoly. But suppose ...

Columnists

John Hood: What if Bernie Sanders wins NC?

RALEIGH — The confusing jumble that was the 2020 Iowa caucuses proved to be a very public disaster ...

Opinion

Larry Efird: Have understanding, even when there’s no answer

By Larry Efird Recently, a student asked me a question I have never heard in four decades of ...

Guest columns

Guest column: Look to NC for solar success

By Mike Hughes North Carolina and Duke Energy have been leaders as solar power has grown as a ...

Opinion

Ferrel Guillory: Suspenseful election in a mega-state

By Ferrel Guillory American elections don’t occur in a vacuum. Influencing the decisions of individual voters, the struggle ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: History shows Trump peace plan is doomed to fail

By Cal Thomas Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser ...

Guest columns

US attorneys: Congress must ban fentanyl analogues

By U.S. Attorneys Robert J. Higdon Jr., Matthew G.T. Martin, R. Andrew Murray and A. Lance Crick In ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Hillary Clinton was right about Trump world after all

By Leonard Pitts Surely you remember the “basket of deplorables.” That was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 characterization of some ...

Columnists

Sharon Randall: Schedules include two kinds of busy

By Sharon Randall Long ago — when I should’ve known better, but didn’t realize it would come back ...

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