Opinion
Celebrating the late birthday of NC women’s right to vote
By 1971, however, feminism and women’s rights were emerging issues, and North Carolina had not ratified women’s most basic political right, the right to vote.
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Out of your money
Opinion
Voters likely to approve tax limitation
Statewide levy limits aren’t new or weird. They’ve worked reasonably well in other places for decades. I strongly suspect they’ll work well in North Carolina, too.
Opinion
Stop the facility-fee shakedown
If a hospital can’t afford to provide the service for the lower charge provided by private companies, then maybe there are service lines a hospital doesn’t need to be in.
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Look back and laugh
Opinion
‘Never resident’ voters return to NC election law spotlight
Recent court filings have returned the issue of nonresident North Carolina voters to the headlines.
Opinion
Everyone needs to do their job, and teacher walkouts don’t help
Encouraging or normalizing conduct that violates existing law is neither principled advocacy nor sound public policy. It places students in disputes that should be resolved by grown-ups through lawful channels.
Opinion
How UNC silenced satire and the Daily Tar Heel
The articles may have been a bit out of touch, yes — but many of them were also really funny. And more importantly, students on campus should have the latitude to make clumsy jokes.
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Swing voters
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Carolinians helped shape comic culture
While we properly associate American pop culture with places such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, I’d recently come to appreciate the pivotal contributions of North and South Carolinians to the pulp fiction of the early 20th century and the comic-book culture that followed it.
Opinion
A smarter way to strengthen NC’s health care workforce
APRNs — including nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives — are highly trained, nationally certified professionals who are already delivering high-quality care across the state. Yet outdated regulatory requirements continue to limit how that care can be delivered in practice.
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First Iryna, then Dominique: Charlotte failed to protect the vulnerable
Like Iryna, Dominique deserved better. Hopefully this bill bearing her name can create systems and procedures that can prevent future situations where a child suffers abuse of this magnitude.
