Lieutenant governor rivals differ sharply
The winner of the race for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor will be a strong, passionate advocate of his or her party’s governing philosophy.
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Ever-changing congressional districts portend interesting results
Last year, a Superior Court panel in North Carolina declared the state’s congressional districts an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. As I noted in a previous column, this was an egregious abuse of judicial power. No matter, it is done. We should now look forward and examine the effects the…
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District closings boost homeschooling
North Carolina is already the homeschooling capital of the United States. Now the attraction of this education option is soaring higher than ever — thanks not to the actions of its proponents but to the antics of its opponents. According to data compiled by the organization EdChoice.org, about…
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State’s economic recovery is sputtering
While the government counted about 100,000 fewer North Carolinians as unemployed last month, only 28,000 got jobs. The remaining 72,000 dropped out of the labor force.
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Cooper faces test on voter ID
By popular vote, by direct democracy, North Carolinians decided to require voter ID. The governor and his allies claim this outcome was undemocratic.
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State reserves may not be enough
Employers are hiring people back, but not as robustly as we need them to. North Carolina’s labor market is still down 326,000 jobs since February.
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Cooper’s post-COVID-19 plans should worry all North Carolinians
Gov. Roy Cooper owns this. He owns the coronavirus response and everything that will follow. Cooper has refused to confer with the Council of State, vetoed the General Assembly’s efforts to get businesses safely opened and people back to work, relied solely on…
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Bring young kids back to school
Some parents will refuse all options except distance learning until a vaccine is available and widely distributed. They have every right to. For most parents, however, such a stance is unrealistic.
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Former slave blazed trail for writers
Pure, unadulterated freedom is what Harriet Jacobs and so many other North Carolinians were long denied. Pure, unadulterated freedom is the goal for which so many fought, sometime paying the ultimate price.
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Cooper seeking too much power
Remember that Roy Cooper won’t be in office forever. Whatever power he seizes today may be exercised tomorrow by a very different governor.