Commentary/Opinion
Letter To The Editor: EMS Takeover Leaves Many Unanswered Questions
By: D. Banks Wallace Johnston County EMS Advisory Committee Member After reading the article entitled, “County Commissioners Forcing Four Oaks EMS, 50-210 EMS Out of Business”, I felt it my…
Metro Areas Suffer Big Job Losses
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — North Carolina’s economy, battered by COVID-19 itself as well as government’s costly attempts to contain its spread, is still struggling to recover. There were about…
Op-Ed: Rewriting Election Laws Is Outrageous And Irresponsible
By: NC Senator Brent Jackson Rewriting election laws right in the middle of an election is outrageous and irresponsible, but that is exactly what the State Board of Elections wants…
Lieutenant Governor Rivals Differ Sharply
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — The post of lieutenant governor is a constitutional office in North Carolina, and the only one empowered to exercise both legislative and executive powers. Those…
District Closings Boost Homeschooling
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — North Carolina is already the homeschooling capital of the United States. Now the attraction of this education option is soaring higher than ever — thanks…
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 July. Good news worth celebrating,…
You Decide: Will The Fed’s New Policy Cause Higher Inflation?
By Dr. Mike Walden I always tell students and folks at my presentations to watch the Federal Reserve. While the President and Congress get most of the attention in Washington,…
Cooper Faces Test On Voter ID
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — I have repeatedly criticized Roy Cooper’s troubling efforts to amass power in the governor’s office at the expense of other elected state leaders, local governments,…
State Reserves May Not Be Enough
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — North Carolina’s state government began its 2020-21 fiscal year with $1.5 billion in cash left over from last year plus another $1.8 billion in rainy-day…
Cooper’s Post-COVID-19 Plans Should Worry All North Carolinians
By Becki Gray Gov. Roy Cooper owns this. He owns the coronavirus response and everything that will follow. Cooper has refused to confer with the Council of State, vetoed the General…
Bring Young Kids Back To School
By JOHN HOOD RALEIGH — Most North Carolina schoolchildren began this academic year trying to learn from home rather than at school. How’s it going so far? Set aside the…
Op-Ed: Clearing Things Up In Selma
By: Byron McAllister, Selma Town Councilman There have been a few articles in Johnston County newspapers over the last month or so that covered the resignation of Steven Hicks, the…
