While many are fretting over the just-right Christmas present, tackling last-minute holiday details or preparing for years-end, many of North Carolina’s high school seniors have the added stress of preparing applications for college.
The ideal 2019 New Year’s Resolution
Tom Campbell is former assistant North Carolina State Treasurer and is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of NC issues. Show airs in Charlotte on WCCB Sundays at 6:30 a.m.
As a nation, we came together last week to say farewell to a beloved patriot and hero, President George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the U…
Have you driven around North Carolina recently? More people have decorated with outdoor lights, blowups and festive displays than we’ve seen i…
It was Christmas Eve 1914. World War I was in its early stages and trench warfare was the rule of the day. Soldiers on opposing sides could he…
No self-respecting columnist passes up the obligatory prediction column the first week of the year. So here goes mine.
2019 was only four days old when we got the announcement the U.S. Supreme Court was going to hear arguments on North Carolina’s redistricting …
RALEIGH — Over the past eight years, conservative lawmakers have done much to constrain the excesses, expenses, and abuses of governmental pow…
Imagine travelling from Raleigh to Charlotte in about 22 minutes; not by train, plane or car, but instead in a pod, transported through an alm…
This weekend marks the end of a sports era. Since I was around at the beginning, I want to join others in mourning the loss of over-the-air br…
“The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhe…
RALEIGH — In the January 1953 edition of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, a fan of the genre from Texas, Marilyn Venable, made her …
Now that Democrats will soon control one branch of Congress, President Donald Trump is again signaling that infrastructure could be an area of…
RALEIGH — How should we respond to the urban-rural divide? The question has legions of politicians, scholars, journalists, and businesses scra…
Back in 1897, an eight-year-old girl, prompted by naysaying friends, wrote The New York Sun wanting the truth about the existence of Santa Cla…
“There should be an historic plaque in Chapel Hill honoring George Bush.”
RALEIGH — Whether your frame of reference is a country, a government, a business, or your own household, being better off in the long run requ…
“Because he was a traitor and a pirate,” East Carolina University professor and leading North Carolina public historian, Larry Tise, explained…
What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month?
RALEIGH — When it comes to giving parents more control over where their children attend elementary and secondary school, North Carolina has be…
If it’s got a good beat and easy to dance to, it might save a life.
I read a recent article that was on the Independent Tribune site titled “Immigrants make significant impact on North Carolina” and I felt comp…
RALEIGH — Democrats achieved significant victories this year in the “inner suburbs” of Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and North Carolina’s ot…
As a young boy I remember hearing the stories about that first Thanksgiving, when the Pilgrims and Indians feasted together. The romanticized …
Who will succeed Margaret Spellings as president of the UNC System?
The 2018 midterm was one of the most interesting elections held in our state. While there wasn’t the “blue wave” many had predicted, this was …
Bill Friday was right. Friday, the founding president of the 16 campus University of North Carolina System, fought with then-Governor Bob Scot…
Can’t you say anything good about President Donald Trump?
In their 2015 song "Stressed Out," which got an astonishing 1.5 billion views on YouTube, the band Twenty One Pilots had a line lamenting stud…
The choice is painfully simple — literally.
With election day fast approaching, an evaluation of our political climate and how it impacts us as individuals is relevant. That’s a subject …
Why would I ask you to read from a column I wrote almost 30 years ago?
We talk a lot about today’s tribal, partisan politics, where the camps seem to migrate farther and farther to the right or left, screaming at …
When H. G. Jones died on October 14, our state lost a key connection to its history as well as a prime and positive, but all too rare, example…
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I would have been much duller had I not had access to books at an early age.
