Long term prosperity is jeopardized by short term thinking on the part of the GOP-led tax cut at the federal level. Income disparity is made worse by drastic cuts to corporate income taxes (from 35% to 21%) and wealthy individuals in the multi-million and billionaire categories.
Tax reform bill misses the mark
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…
Sometimes it is hard finding truth. That’s where I am regarding the UNC Board of Governors.
Last week, I was thrilled to host many constituents who were in Washington for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) national c…
Now that the Mueller report has removed the cudgel of Russian collusion from Donald Trump’s opponents, we can look ahead and hope the messy po…
Will Gov. Roy Cooper have a wall this summer?
So far, several Democrats running for president in 2020 and their allies in Congress have embraced socialism as more of a fashionable buzzword…
At long last it is Spring, when daylight hours grow longer, temperatures turn warmer and flowers burst into bloom. The Anglo-Saxon word for Sp…
Joe Biden’s recent struggles were at once predictable and a symptom of the current political climate. As the acknowledged frontrunner in a cro…
Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, once said, “Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse…
Who is the best North Carolina-based political columnist?
RALEIGH — After Durham businessman Greg Lindberg, state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes, and two of Lindberg’s business associates were …
In a normal political climate, Nancy Pelosi would never become a sympathetic character. These, of course, are not normal times in national pol…
CNN reports, "For the first time 'No Religion' has topped a survey of Americans' religious identity, according to a new analysis by a politica…
Even with a monopoly on all branches of the government, the GOP is giving up its traditional platforms on a balanced budget, free trade, immi…
Guns have become a major public health hazard in our country. Our rates of gun deaths and injuries are at record highs and far above the rate…
The House of Representatives and several state legislatures are suffering from districts designed to benefit the GOP bias to stack the deck ag…
It used to be the GOP's mandate to balance the public coffers. Not anymore. The last federal
In both the national and statewide legislatures, the ruling party has done significant damage to the recent progress made in voting rights, cl…
As Professor Harold Hill stated in “The Music Man,” there is trouble right here in River City. Except its not the evils of pocket pool, but ra…
Millions of dollars have been spent on the recent mid-term elections, with both sides emphasizing the negative aspects of the other’s party af…
As developed countries advance into more inclusive societies, we are seeing the phenomenon of inclusiveness in our laws and ethical values. Th…
I was glad to see that Leroy Deabler is running for political office. This gives me hope.
As election time approaches, the enlightened voter needs to assess significant differences apparent in our two-party system. One party is bols…
The state treasury is soon to be in financial chaos and in dire need of resuscitation. In order to placate angry teachers they authorized a 7 …
Barry Goldwater ushered in the modern conservative movement after President Johnson’s Great Society programs and the Civil Rights Act of the m…
Will Rogers, the astute political analyst and comedian in the 1920s and 1930s, captured the mood of the country in a way in which no one else …
Discord and disagreement predominated in the forum of the Republican candidates on April 9 at Winkler Middle School. With friends like those, …
It was a sad state of affairs when the Senate just took a 10-day recess after kicking the can down the road yet again so the government can st…
As a retired health care professional I am shocked at the lack of public empathy for the less fortunate in our society, especially when it com…
To the editor: This is written in response to Leroy Deabler’s “US in danger of becoming an aristocracy.”
Newspaper cartoons often capture the essence of political issues through humor and exaggeration. Lately, many have been directed at the GOP’s …
To the editor: I wish to respond to a letter written by David Treece and published in the Independent Tribune on Nov. 27.
There is a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. In spite of the naysayers and skeptics, we have much to celebrate.
To the editor: In response to “Sometimes, the public good must prevail [Nov. 23 issue].”
At long last the Cabarrus County Commissioners voted to help those needing transportation to and from work, subsidized primarily through feder…
At the national level we are still spending more than we are collecting, but the trends over the past three years are improving.
Our Congressional approval rating has recently dropped to 10 percent, which seems kind of high in my opinion.
Things are not always what they seem in politics these days. The state legislature should be about helping the economy and the people, yet the…
