As the North Carolina General Assembly begins its 2025 session, lawmakers have many pressing issues to tackle. Topping the list will be addressing the immediate needs of Hurricane Helene victims and …
The 19-inch black and white TV was rolled into our classroom each day to watch 9th-grade physical science on WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill. We were introduced to basic concepts of physics and chemistry, the …
Manufacturing has a special place in our economy and is something people can easily relate to. The output of manufacturing companies, spanning a variety of items from vehicles to clothing to chairs, …
To the editor: President Ronald Reagan and the majestically decorated West Front of our nation's Capitol Building were supposed to be the stars of this long ago weekend. Instead, it was a fat, brown …
Donald Trump is president again. Four years after his first term ended in an unprecedented spasm of lies, criminality and violence that threatened the very survival of constitutional government in …
"If you vote for me," Donald Trump told Libertarians at their national convention last May, "on day one, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht." Some of us believed him. Some didn't. Some of …
Are we on the brink of World War III? Not necessarily, argue the coauthors of a new book, so long as we do what is necessary to deter revanchists threatening peace and freedom around the world. But …
November’s election was a pretty much a disaster for Democrats nationwide, but North Carolina Democrats can take some comfort in retaining their longstanding tradition of winning the governor’s …
It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew all along: politics is corrupt. After four years of being subjected to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s dogged investigation into …
Like a three-pack-a-day smoker who blames their chronic cough on allergies, or a recent flu shot — everything but their addiction — President-elect Donald Trump continues to embrace an absurd and …
To the Editor: For anyone afflicted with mavrogatphobia, be warned. Our neck of the woods may not be for you. A few years ago, some former neighbors moved away and left a cat behind. In the month's …
We live and work in a mostly free economy — but a spate of year-end stories demonstrated a prominent exception. Triad Business Journal reported that Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, sought …
The older I get — I’m 74 in a few days — the more I seem to think about my past, especially my parents. Both were high school dropouts, but they were able to provide for their family and lead …
At the heart of the incentive to innovate is intellectual property protections. Patent rights ensure that inventors reap the rewards of their discoveries — the result of untold hours of toiling …
For some politicians, the rise to political power is meteoric and surprising. Donald Trump’s sudden ascent from conspiracy-theory-peddling reality TV host to the presidency is undoubtedly the most …
"I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost," Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger (U.S. Army) allegedly wrote in an explanatory note on his phone before shooting himself inside a Tesla …
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, student performance fell across much of the United States. According to a new study of 2022 math and reading scores, however, North Carolina students suffered …
As Christmas approached, the never-ending 2024 “short session” of our General Assembly passed a resolution for North Carolina to join eight other states in calling for a convention of states. The …
To the editor: The older we get, it seems, the faster that time seems to fly by. To a child, one hundred years is hard to comprehend; but age, at least, better equips us to take a century's measure. …
"How can this be called a 'continuing resolution,'" Elon Musk asked concerning Congress's next-to-last stopgap government funding bill, "if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?" The real …