Letter To Editor: Operation Critical Race Theory
By: Beth Moore, M.ED.This week I was at a County Commissioners meeting. I was disheartened by what I heard around the school budget and...
OPINION: Feds Blew It On COVID Relief
By John Hood
RALEIGH — If ever there was justification for sudden, expedited, large-scale federal expenditure, the COVID crisis was it. Americans faced a...
You Decide: Has There Been Some Good News On Income Inequality?
By Mike Walden
Decades from now, people who lived through the pandemic will remember it as a horrible period. Over a million people in...
You Decide: Is The Outlook Bright For Manufacturing?
By Mike Walden Almost precisely a year ago I wrote a column about manufacturing. I reviewed the facts about manufacturing in North Carolina and...
Superintendent Races Draw Five Candidates
By John Hood
RALEIGH — Of the 10 executive offices that make up North Carolina’s Council of State, half will be open seats in...
You Decide: Do International Investments Help Or Harm?
By Mike Walden
Recently the Japanese Prime Minister visited North Carolina to celebrate a major new investment in our state by a Japanese biotechnology company...
COVID Infections Far Exceed Cases
By JOHN HOOD
RALEIGH — You may recall that back in early April, a panel of health analysts presented Gov. Roy Cooper with two forecasts:...
State Economic Recovery Is Sputtering
By JOHN HOOD
RALEIGH — According to the latest jobs report, North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate fell to 6.5% in August, down from 8.5% in...
Good News On The State Budget
By JOHN HOOD
RALEIGH — Since the beginning of the COVID-19 recession in March, North Carolina policymakers have been watching government revenues and expenditures carefully....
The Reason Your Marriage (Or Future Marriage) Isn’t Going To Make It
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No kid enjoys cleaning their room. I know I didn’t. It may have been the chore that I disliked the most,...
