Do you remember the TV game show Family Feud? It was good fun as one family competes with another for cash prizes, but we all know that real life family feuds can be bitter, divisive and cause great damage.
A family feud
Tom Campbell
8 things we learned in the 9th District hearings
With a clear-eyed perspective on my place in politics (I don’t have one) this column is intended to give advice to the Democrat Party as it at…
We all share the same goal to end gun violence in this country. But in the course of this debate, House Democrats say they want to “do somethi…
Here’s a good news-bad news story that needs a happy ending. The good news is that as of January our state’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent…
From the opening moments of Apollo 11, as a missile crawler-transporter is delivering a Saturn rocket to its launch pad, viewers know that som…
RALEIGH — In the twilight of his political career, Ronald Reagan made the media rounds to discuss his administration, legacy, and unfinished b…
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…
Ask any college senior where the best jobs are, and you'll probably hear a list of coastal metropolises: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
Is it just one more small-town business that has closed its doors?
RALEIGH — While election scandals, national issues, and candidate announcements for 2019 and 2020 races have dominated the political headlines…
Nancy McFarlane is my mayor. She has led Raleigh through explosive growth, including a new train station, the purchase of Dix Park, promotion …
President Donald Trump's proposed budget for 2020 is a fairly standard list of conservative priorities. Trump would spend more on the military…
There’s a famous quote by American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson about the purpose of life. Emerson tells us, “The purpose of life is not to be hap…
Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back …
A social and political sea change has occurred in recent years, and those wielding political power are not the only stakeholders in what has b…
The proposed DMV move brings to mind one of the old Three Stooges comedies, the one where one of the zany trio says, “I’ve cut this board thre…
Would you like to know why U.S. sanctions against companies owned by Russian billionaire and businessman Oleg Deripaska are being lifted?
RALEIGH — If the most important factor determining the welfare of workers is the growth rate of the economy, that has policy implications that…
RALEIGH — Friar Laurence has the best of intentions. But in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the friar’s well-intended interventions do…
When NASCAR stages its premier show next weekend, the event will mark the 40th anniversary of a snowstorm and a fistfight that combined to cre…
Last week, the world watched as President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union Address. In his speech, the President highlight…
The request was for me to talk to an audience about how to conduct civil, meaningful and honest discussions among people with different faiths…
As president of the North Carolina Community College System and State Superintendent of our K-12 public schools, we are happy to highlight Feb…
North Carolina’s most important emergency is not the next federal government shutdown. Nor is it a fake national emergency on the nation’s sou…
A reader recently posed a question that is at once a legitimate conversation starter and a commentary on the current state of affairs in this …
There is a secret about North Carolina’s early colonial days, something even more disturbing and horrifying than traditional slavery.
RALEIGH — The single most important issue during every legislative session is the approval or revision of North Carolina’s state budget. For t…
The recent brouhaha surrounding the Catholic schoolboys from Kentucky demonstrated the partnering of social media and journalism for the absol…
Lawmakers return to Raleigh next week for the 2019 session of the North Carolina General Assembly. Pledges of harmony and bipartisan cooperati…
Editor's note: A developer's plan for a mixed use development on this property was denied by Concord City Council because of traffic, schools …
Chapel Hill is still stunned.
Last Friday marked the 46th annual March for Life, an event to celebrate life and honor it as a sacred and precious gift from God. This incred…
An FBI investigation of President Donald Trump should surprise no one who has followed current events in recent years. As we learned from the …
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…
If you are the mother or father of a high school athlete here in North Carolina, this message is primarily for you.
A couple of weeks ago I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019 “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”
RALEIGH — Milton Friedman once observed that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” To be sure, spending bills or regula…
RALEIGH — Over the past eight years, conservative lawmakers have done much to constrain the excesses, expenses, and abuses of governmental pow…
