We should all take reasonable precautions, absolutely. But keeping schools, public venues, and large swaths of our economy closed or severely constrained indefinitely strikes me as the opposite of reasonable.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court revives an important constitutional debate.
Public employees understandably care a great deal about who is managing their retirement savings and health plan, but all North Carolinians have a stake in the outcome.
Imagine being quarantined and your family, friends, and coworkers needlessly alerted and scared because you tested positive for a scrap of unviable genetic material. You thought you had a dangerous virus, but you didn’t. Without a doubt, it’s happened all across North Carolina, except that the victims never find out about that last bit. These...
A comfortable chair, in a bookstore or coffee shop. Maybe just a hard, splintery bench in a park. A conversation with a stranger, or even an old friend. Someone you haven’t seen in awhile. Mostly gone, now. Not lost, really. We know where to find them. Rather, as my friend and colleague Kari Travis told...
