Candidates are lining up to run in 2020 and we’ve heard those running on a more liberal or “progressive” platform, as well as those espousing a more conservative agenda. There’s one big segment of our population being left out.
Stuck in the middle
Tom Campbell
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…
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…
Why is Washington still at a standstill over border security and government funding? After trying to negotiate a bipartisan deal for weeks, Pr…
Three news stories recently addressed topics related to public education, although each one seemingly stood alone in its relevance to educatin…
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 — The average public-school district in the United States enrolls about 3,700 students, according to a recent Governing magazine analy…
While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law School professor Gene Nichol has been trav…
If you Google the word “irony,” one of the first definitions is, “happening in the opposite way to what is expected, and typically causing wry…
With the Democrat Party assuming control of the U.S. House, an inventory of accomplishments by President Donald Trump is in order, as is a loo…
No self-respecting columnist passes up the obligatory prediction column the first week of the year. So here goes mine.
RALEIGH — As dysfunctional as Congress has become, it does manage to enact some useful bills. One of them, the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act…
What really happened to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in the New World? The same Virginia Dare whom I suggested recen…
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…
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the arrival of “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”
