Opinion
State population growth is slowing
North Carolina is one of the places to which people still like to relocate, but relocation isn’t as common as it used to be.
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Paging Don Martin
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Top statewide race could have significant legal impact
The N.C. Supreme Court's record this year suggests the next election could upend common voting coalitions.
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‘Not the man they think I am at home’
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Republicans aren’t fated to fade
Richard Burr was reelected to his third term in the U.S. Senate by drawing the votes of a strong majority (64 percent) of white North Carolinians, yes, but also 49 percent of Hispanic North Carolinians.
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Blame game
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Facebook caught up in vilification of entrepreneurs, enterprises
I have found the recent demonization of Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg fascinating and revelatory. We have discovered that during the 2016 presidential campaign the social media giant played unwitting host to hundreds of Russian bots and fake accounts peddling misinformation about the candidates. It has also attracted bad publicity for allowing third parties to...
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The mighty pencil
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Access to quality, affordable health care a matter of life and death
North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation in access to health care. When you consider we have great access in some parts of the state — those close to metropolitan areas and teaching hospitals in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Triad, and Triangle — the overall ranking is misleading. Access is especially poor in rural parts of the...
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The dust bin of history
Opinion
Cooper budget relies on extra taxes
Flowery language aside, the Roy Cooper administration properly books its proposed tax changes as an increase in tax collections — of $392 million over the next two fiscal years.
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Scholars agree N.C. should pick, ‘stick to’ one judicial selection process
A supporter and critic of North Carolina's partisan judicial elections agree lawmakers should limit continual tinkering.
