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MIKE WALDEN: Is the social safety net a spring board or a cushion?

There are few public issues that create more debate than the “social safety net.” By social safety net, ...

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JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Let’s make Medicaid expansion work

RALEIGH — Are Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, Republican House Speaker Tim Moore, and Republican Senate leader Phil Berger ...

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DOUG CREAMER COLUMN: Maintaining our faith

When spring rolled around this year I thought I would change the oil in my lawn mower. Each ...

Opinion

DG MARTIN COLUMN: Losing, gaining in ‘Roadside Eateries’

There is agony and there is ecstasy in revising my favorite book, “North Carolina Roadside Eateries.” The book ...

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LARRY PENKAVA COLUMN: Troubles by the mouthful

I’m 75 years old and still haven’t mastered the art of chewing. It seems simple. You put food ...

Opinion

NFHS COLUMN: Support National High School Colors Day on Friday

There is no time like high school, especially when it comes to involvement in sports, performing arts and ...

Columns

DG MARTIN COLUMN: North Carolina’s Queen Elizabeth and King Charles

We watched the great and solemn events in Britain over the last few days. But we heard not ...

Opinion

LARRY PENKAVA COLUMN: Where did the Ringo? (With apologies to Richard Starkey)

It made me wonder if doing odd jobs was worth the effort. I was a teenager in 1964-65 ...

Opinion

OPINION: Should the Fed stop influencing interest rates?

The Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) is now in the process of increasing interest rates. This is a tactic ...

News

JOHN HOOD COLUMN: Reliable power means nuclear power

RALEIGH — In late August, the government of California gave its residents two additional, and interrelated, reasons to ...

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