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The truth about pregnancy resource centers

Last year, the North Carolina General Assembly funded a range of life-changing support for vulnerable mothers under the landmark Care for Women, Children, and Families Act. However, everyone wasn’t on board. Abortion advocates in the legislature have not stopped fighting this law that, among other things, boosted assistance to programs reducing maternal mortality, funded pregnancy...

Julie Scott Emmons
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Spring celebrations have a steep price this year

Each visit to my local supermarket is startling. The prices of milk, meat, and other basics seem to be skyrocketing. It doesn’t take much digging to find out that food prices have risen in the last three years at highest rate since the Great Inflation of 1979-1983.

Donna King

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Unfinished business on Second Chance Act

Could you imagine leaving a courthouse with absolution from a judge or jury — the charge is dismissed, or you’ve been found not guilty — but the criminal record of the prosecution continues to follow you? Unfortunately, that is the potential for all North Carolinians, as an estimated one million criminal records are active and...

Maggie Horzempa
Opinion

Cooperation with ICE is not anti immigrant

“STOP the anti-immigrant bill, HB 10.”  When I opened my inbox the above subject line repopulated hundreds of times. It piqued my interest, so I read a little further. The email continued with the assertion that:   “This bill will make immigrants in our community feel unsafe and cause detrimental economic impacts on our state. We...

Ken Fontenot
Opinion

Universities should cultivate civic leaders

Most students and their families invest time, effort, and resources into higher education for vocational reasons. They expect the knowledge, skills, and relationships acquired at a college or university will lead to good jobs — which will, in turn, generate income for graduates to support themselves and their families as well as the satisfaction and...

John Hood
Opinion

A rebate to taxpayers? Let’s pay down debt instead

Some legislators have proposed that the General Assembly send some tax money back to us. That sounds like fun. I have another idea: Use whatever money is in mind to pay down state debt. State debt currently stands at $8 billion. This would not change the state balance sheet. It would reduce the chance of...

Paul Stam
Opinion

Why we’re rallying for a Convention of States in Raleigh this week

The movement to have North Carolina join other states in exercising the call for an Article V Convention to propose amendments to the US Constitution has been brewing steadily in our state legislature since 2013. As consistent supporters and sponsors of the current Resolution HJR235, here are a few reasons we believe North Carolina needs...

Tim Moffitt, Dennis Riddell