Instead of duking it out for customers, two regional health care giants will vie for a government permission slip.
Improving access to health care is about more than who pays the bill. It’s about the size of that bill, and who possesses the information and the incentives to make decisions about it.
The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, sparked an extraordinary wave of anti-police protests. While most of those protests were peaceful, many turned violent as protestors or interlopers resorted to looting and rioting. Billions of dollars’ worth of property was stolen or destroyed, buildings were burned to the ground, and lives were lost....
I joined the U.S. Air Force when I was 17, a senior in high school. I left for Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio about a month after I graduated. Young, naive, scared. I knew nothing, then. But I learned a lot, quickly. I thought so, anyway. At least, at the time. Most of...
Today North Carolina should hit a new threshold in the Covid-19 era: over a million confirmed cases since the pandemic began. But North Carolina may already be at a more important threshold: herd immunity. From President Joe Biden all the way down to Gov. Roy Cooper and the “vaccine passports” people, the focus on Covid-19...
Buried in Northeastern Cemetery in Rocky Mount, North Carolina is George Foxe (1940-1965). Foxe served in the 7th Cavalry in Vietnam; the infamous unit previously commanded by Gen. George Armstrong Custer. If you’ve read the book “We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young” or seen the Hollywood film, you know a little bit...
