To the editor, You just wanted to stand up and cheer. With our current 9th district vacancy, can’t we just adopt this man? Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the US House committee on intelligence, claimed […]
To the editor, A name; at times, with a photo. Our minds cannot countenance some of those in the obituary pages. Over a recent 25 day period, I saw the names Faye Adcock Poplin, Gene […]
RALEIGH – On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the potentially landmark case of Rucho v. Common Cause, challenging partisan gerrymandering of North Carolina’s congressional districts. The high court’s ruling may come before the […]
County Manager Bryan Land last week made a show of his distaste for the petition for county water signed by roughly 430 Richmond County residents before the Board of Commissioners, calling it “disturbing” and “sensational”, […]
Talk of momentum is mostly an exercise in mysticism. Unless measured physically — as it relates to velocity and mass — momentum is figurative, nothing more than idea, a feeling. Yet it’s an apt description […]
The real shame of the opioid crisis: Purdue Pharma My little sister, Jenny, didn’t have a funeral. Her estranged, drug-dealer husband took her body from the hospital morgue after her gruesome death from prescription opioids. […]
With pre-emptive apologies to grammarians everywhere, today we ponder the following question: Who is “we?” That syntactic atrocity is prompted by a recent colloquy between Laura Ingraham of Fox “News” and former GOP operative Patrick […]
RALEIGH — In North Carolina, political power is divided. Republicans control the state legislature, although without the supermajorities they once enjoyed. Democrats occupy such jobs as governor and attorney general, but Republicans control six of […]
To the editor, A horse-drawn caisson slowly wending its way up Arlington cemetery’s (ANC) Meigs Drive toward Fort Myer’s old chapel; an honor guard and musicians forming up under mid-morning sunny skies; a veteran’s funeral […]
RALEIGH — As a policy analyst and opinion journalist, I have spent much of my career advocating the expansion of choice and competition in education. I purposefully use both of those terms, because I think […]
There’s a new twist to an ongoing debate — this one about parents and the students they create. This fall a “We Are Teachers” blog post, lamenting an upsurge in over-involved parents, went viral, eliciting […]
People everywhere watched helplessly last fall as hurricanes Florence and Michael pounded North Carolina with a record 8 trillion gallons of rain that flooded hog waste lagoons and spilled their toxic content into our rivers, […]
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