The N.C. State Fair, after a year off because of COVID, is back, and it’s spectacular. Glorious weather and, from my point of view, an almost perfect event. State Agriculture Commission Steve Troxler, fair Manager G. Kent Yelverton, and their staffs deserve tons of credit. Troxler, in canceling the fair last year, showed the type...
A lot of this angst is fueled by a truth many Americans have or should have known all along – the government is ill-equipped to solve most problems in society.
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman and Secretary of State, Colin Powell has died. News of General Powell’s untimely passing shook the entire world. Powell was seen as one of the last true patriots living in this nation. Countless world leaders, corporate executives, and community activists rushed to social media to share a small tribute of what...
Our communities need more policing, not less. That’s what North Carolina’s recent surge in violence tells us.
Education savings accounts are supposed to help families cover a range of expenses linked to teaching their kids. That’s exactly what parents in North Carolina with ESAs tend to do. It’s a key finding from new research on the topic. The finding could have positive implications for ESAs’ long-term viability. “More parents customized — that...
In a speech at Bradley University in September 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower told the crowd, “You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.” Even though it was said 65 years ago that statement rings strangely true for North Carolina’s agricultural community, which is...
Why are people on the far right ‘pro virus’? The question came up on Quora, the social question and answer website. Despite its faulty premise, it sounded sincere. I had an epiphany while thinking about whether to answer that question: Accusing the far right of being “pro virus” is every bit as telling as accusing...
Believe it or not, the “limousine liberal” tag was first used by a Democrat to describe a Republican in a New York City mayoral campaign during the late 1960s. Back then, the Democratic Party was still largely cemented as America’s working-class party. Today, it’s an entirely different story. Few policies highlight that more right now...
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