Just before Thanksgiving, COVID-19 is once again surging out of control. Infections in the U.S. are proliferating so quickly — 1 million were …
Gov. Roy Cooper is absolutely right to insist that the Republican National Convention adhere to North Carolina’s pandemic guidelines — whateve…
Jim Bakker doesn’t have a cure for the coronavirus.
The Republicans who run North Carolina’s legislature are thwarting more than just Gov. Roy Cooper and his fellow Democrats as they continue to…
In Chapel Hill people still talk about the influenza pandemic of 1918.
In mid-February, we noted with some relief that “novel coronavirus pneumonia,” commonly called “coronavirus,” hadn’t yet become a major proble…
My father used to joke that, when he was a boy, it seemed like his family moved every time the rent came due.
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We all know Santa Claus as a “right jolly old elf,” but the man carries a well-stocked bag of regrets.
In addition, Scott Rada and Richard Kyte talk about whether people are expressing relief now that the presidential election is over and if vac…
"They aren’t trying to change the world or even change your mind. They are just quietly doing their job as they always have, often without pra…
I’ve always taken great pride in the tender care I give to my cellphone. Until recently, I could boast that with all of the various cellular d…
Each year at this time, newspapers across the state are preparing entries for the N.C. Press Association awards contest. The competition allow…
One of the most outstanding features of today’s worship and evangelism is the predominance of sensationalism. Whether it is blaring music, “wo…
Decades from now, today's young will be sharing vivid memories of the pandemic of 2020. They will tell grandchildren what it was like seeing g…
Donald Trump lost by more than 5 million votes and the same Electoral College majority that he won in 2016 and called a “landslide.”
It’s started already.
Stop the nonsense
This year, and likely next, will largely be determined by the spread of Covid-19 and the magnitude of our efforts to contain it. It will be a …
We know COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire through our nation’s nursing homes. With only a few weeks until the district work period in August…
I was so happy to read the letter to the editor (Friday, Aug. 7) from William Russ about moving the Confederate monument next to the courthous…
Morganton houses one of the largest psychiatric hospital in the state, but if you were to take a survey of my graduating class, I would bet mo…
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