Let’s try something new. New for me anyway. A different path, if you will. Follow me and I’ll lead you, all the while trying to avoid the spooky, dilapidated house at the end of what used to be a road. The house is filled with sadness,…
We should all take reasonable precautions, absolutely. But keeping schools, public venues, and large swaths of our economy closed or severely constrained indefinitely strikes me as the opposite of reasonable.
Public employees understandably care a great deal about who is managing their retirement savings and health plan, but all North Carolinians have a stake in the outcome.
Imagine being quarantined and your family, friends, and coworkers needlessly alerted and scared because you tested positive for a scrap of unviable genetic material. You thought you had a dangerous virus, but you didn’t. Without a doubt, it’s happened all across North Carolina, except that the…
A comfortable chair, in a bookstore or coffee shop. Maybe just a hard, splintery bench in a park. A conversation with a stranger, or even an old friend. Someone you haven’t seen in awhile. Mostly gone, now. Not lost, really. We know where to find them. Rather, as my friend…
Candidates for North Carolina’s labor commissioner were civil and substantive during a recent debate, reflecting both campaigns’ recognition that voters are exhausted by smashmouth politics.
In an AP story Oct. 1, Nicholas Riccardi, Jonathan Drew, and Scott Bauer, discussed what they called “the unusually aggressive, hyperlocal legal strategy the Trump campaign is activating as voting begins.” The Associated Press reporters wrote that Republicans have been “…
When it comes to the state’s highest court, 2020 is a high–stakes year for N.C. Republicans. Democrats now enjoy a six-to-one majority on the N.C. Supreme Court. Because North Carolina’s Supreme Court Justices serve “staggered” eight-year terms, three of the seven seats are up for…
For the vast majority of people you know — indeed, for the vast majority of people on our planet — their ancestors never had it so good. On the whole, we are healthier, wealthier, happier, and freer than ever before.
Whether to reopen North Carolina’s public schools is the central issue in the campaign for state superintendent, thanks to COVID-19 and the concerns it raises about safety.
