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Transparent government. If it wasn’t apparent enough that those two words are an oxymoron, the Burke County Board of Education confirmed it wi…

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a resident of Greensboro, home of the Feb. 1, 1960, Woolworth sit-ins, wants you to know that racism no longer exists.

Three weeks ago, as other states tightened COVID-19 restrictions, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper warned of worsening virus metrics but announc…

When I announced North Carolina had its first known COVID case on March 3, most of us didn’t expect to be living like this in December. Instea…

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.

Transparent government. If it wasn’t apparent enough that those two words are an oxymoron, the Burke County Board of Education confirmed it wi…

Cherokee is in the news again this month.

There’s a 16-year cycle in modern politics. If it holds, the 2022 and 2024 elections will be good for Democrats – nationally and in North Caro…

The basketball game ended. Then, something happened that I haven’t seen.

Sins of commission and sins of omission are often treated differently, but it’s not clear they should be. Most of us, for example, would never…

Battle lines are being redrawn in a First Amendment case on the Supreme Court’s docket. What started as a tussle between teenagers and adults …

In her book “They Say We Are Infidels,” Mindy Belz recounts a conversation she had with the bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, during the height …

I moved classrooms this past June. I moved into a room with windows and a door for the first time in 25 years.

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