Opinion
Gun control’s racist past is finally making big headlines
Some on the left are trying to tie the Second Amendment to racism, yet it's gun control laws that are the true culprit.
Opinion
Setting Borders On Arts Funding
Max Borders has written such an interesting and well-reasoned study of the School of the Arts that I refuse to tell you anything more about it.
Opinion
Where are all the ‘arch liberals’?
A collection of mangled journalistic tidbits torn from the latest headlines, digital and print.
News
Congressional Pay Raises: Pay for Performance?
RALEIGH — Every Jan. 1 Congress receives an automatic pay increase unless members of the legislature vote to block it. That rarely happens. Because of a procedural rule that enables Congress to accept the pay raise without having a straight up-or-down vote on it, critics call it a stealth pay raise. Such a move has an added benefit for lawmakers: They can avoid going on the record.
Opinion
MSM reacts to the VP debate
How did the mainstream media see the Palin-Biden debate? Let's see.
Opinion
Raise hell, but grasp distinctions first
Writing in the Charlotte Observer on Tuesday, former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Walker Lundy urges readers to demand that their newspapers “raise hell.
Opinion
Boston Globe urges Romney to racial profile
The Boston Globe needs a better city editor. How else does one explain sending a reporter all the way to Guatemala to report on the illegal aliens who once worked for a company that maintained Gov. Mitt Romney’s lawn?
News
Firm Paid Despite Producing No Jobs
RALEIGH — A fingerprint technology company promoted by State Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight received $307,575 from the state’s Tobacco Trust Fund, ostensibly in exchange for relocating significant operations to North Carolina, which the company never fulfilled. After Privaris, Inc. completed a pilot project for the state Division of Motor Vehicles in 2003, company workers vacated their office space at a publicly funded business incubator in Williamston. Despite its failure to create 10 to 15 new jobs as promised in its contract with the Tobacco Trust, Privaris was paid $132,575 in April 2004.
Opinion
No. 744: Where Do You Stand, Sen. Kerry?
Presidential aspirant John Kerry stands one way on an issue, then turns around and stands the opposite way.
Opinion
In Search of a Biotech Bonanza
North Carolina is hot in pursuit of Massachusetts' status as a hotspot for biotechnology startups. So is this a contest of marketing pitches, or something more?
Opinion
The “Which Blair?” Project
The controversy over Jayson Blair's trouble tenure at The New York Times is prompting a welcome discussion of journalism, bias, and affirmative action.
Opinion
At the Risk of Beating a Dead Horse . . .
John Kerry's gaffe about "regime change" continues to make the political rounds -- with John Edwards a prime beneficiary.
