Opinion
Five-year-old court ruling should raise concerns for Opportunity Scholarship supporters
Two justices on North Carolina's highest court have written harsh critiques of school vouchers.
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Input, output
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Free fallin’
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Bring young kids back to school
Some parents will refuse all options except distance learning until a vaccine is available and widely distributed. They have every right to. For most parents, however, such a stance is unrealistic.
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Your guess is as good as ours
Opinion
Former slave blazed trail for writers
Pure, unadulterated freedom is what Harriet Jacobs and so many other North Carolinians were long denied. Pure, unadulterated freedom is the goal for which so many fought, sometime paying the ultimate price.
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Excess deaths during COVID-19 likely include deaths owing to lockdowns and restrictions
North Carolina continues to grapple with COVID-19. During the early days of the pandemic, the state’s strategy was clear. North Carolina, like other states, needed to restrict movements and interactions to reduce the rate of the spread of the virus. No one seriously thought the virus could be stopped, but by “flattening the curve” at...
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Do as I say …
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On spec
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Cooper’s message to N.C. business owners: ‘You don’t matter’
“You don’t matter.” Three words. Eloquent in their simplicity, biting in their clarity. They come from a letter, posted on Facebook, from the N.C. Bar and Tavern Association. They come a day after the group’s founder, Zack Medford, who, in a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper, writes poignantly about how the lockdowns have crippled his...
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I didn’t do it
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Cooper seeking too much power
Remember that Roy Cooper won’t be in office forever. Whatever power he seizes today may be exercised tomorrow by a very different governor.
