Opinion (Page 6)

• Holder reminds us most gerrymandering complaints mask partisan goals

  The Obama-era attorney general predicts he will sue Republican state lawmakers again this year.

  by Mitch Kokai
• Reduce health cost, not just price

  In North Carolina, we make it far too difficult for new providers to enter the marketplace. We squash competition and innovation. As a result, we make health-care costs unnecessarily high.

  by John Hood
• Conservatives have better solutions than government for racial injustice

  If you only ever read The Washington Post or The New York Times and watch MSNBC, you might believe conservatives have nothing to say about race. The view that conservatives are racists is prominent in academia, too. The “Southern Strategy” theory argues the GOP built its Southern base by appealing…

  by Daniel Gibson
• North Carolinians can be proud of their history

  While North Carolina suffered under slavery and segregation for far too long, the courage of students from N.C. A&T State University transformed the trajectory of our state and nation.

  by Ray Nothstine
• Higher costs won’t help economy

  The great surges in living standards enjoyed during most of our country’s history came not from making things more expensive but by making them less expensive.

  by John Hood
• A mother’s efforts to get fans back in the stands may score big

  Todd Johnson, R-Union, has filed a bill that would change the attendance cap to 40% of seating capacity, or 40 fans per 100 seats.

  by Dallas Woodhouse
• Burr, Tillis both pay political price for defending Congress’ role

  If I want to raise a conservative friend’s blood pressure these days, I’ll ask him what he thinks about North Carolina’s senior U.S. senator, Richard Burr. Many are angry at Burr. Most disagree emphatically with his Feb. 13 vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.

  by Mitch Kokai
• Economic liberty must be a priority for NC courts

  It’s not too late to save our state’s unique free enterprise protections from a future as meaningless surplusage.

  by Richard Dietz
• Picking winners is for losers

  States with lower overall tax rates tend to make less use of targeted incentives. Those states also happen to grow faster than the desperate high-tax states throwing huge incentive grants around.

  by John Hood
• N.C. lawmakers should continue to reject Medicaid expansion 

  Medicaid expansion would inexplicably hurt the most vulnerable North Carolinians.

  by Donald Bryson