You Decide: How Can We Prepare For The Coming Job Shifts?
By Mike Walden
The focus in the labor market over the past year has been about the labor shortage. All workers who left their...
A Memorial Day Message
Take the time to honor our fallen heroes and heroines; take more time to teach our kids and grandkids what the day means By...
You Decide: How Will The Hospitality Industry Change?
By Mike Walden
The North Carolina hospitality industry, primarily composed of restaurants and hotels, is a multi-billion-dollar sector in the state. As a percent...
Mother’s Day 2022, Remembering Childhood Conversations With My Mom
By: John Cabascango Time has faded the details of the memory that returns to me this Mother's Day. I know it involved one...
You Decide: Do We Live In The Most Uncertain Of Times?
By Mike Walden
I was born in 1951, so my seven decades of life now make me a senior citizen. As I think back, our...
OPINION: New Senate Ad Misleads Voters
By John Hood
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor, has just endorsed U.S. Rep. Ted Budd over former Gov. Pat McCrory in the GOP...
You Decide: How Well Has North Carolina Dealt With COVID-19?
By Mike Walden
Even though COVID-19 continues with its variants, medical experts are hopeful the virus is becoming less deadly and disrupting. In other...
You Decide: Why Do Gas Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall?
By Mike Walden
Drivers suffered through almost daily hikes in gas prices when the war in Ukraine began. In the early weeks of the...
OPINION: Let’s Try Building Back Faster
By John Hood RALEIGH — It’s an often-repeated tale, I admit, but I’m going to repeat it, again: the world’s largest low-rise office building,...
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...
