Tough spot

Power grid cost deserves attention

Duke Energy’s $13 billion plan to modernize the power grid would raise average residential bill by 25 percent, or roughly $26 a month per household.

We can’t go back, and that’s the problem 

During the “dog days” of summer, in what was likely an opening salvo of the 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced a proposal to alter American capitalism radically. If enacted, large firms would have to incorporate at the federal level and live by a charter that forces them to consider the interests...

What difference does it make, anyway?

Suggestions to strengthen libel laws are suggestions to suppress free speech

Politicians and newsmakers have lately developed a penchant for the words “libel,” “slander,” and “defamation.” Oftentimes these words, salient and distinct, are used carelessly and ignorantly. Writers and irresponsible journalists have in fact lurched off course — accidentally or deliberately — and sometimes — after costly and lengthy legal proceedings — the aggrieved party is...

The struggle is real