Our Opinion: Adding NCHSAA oversight is a wise compromise
The sausage-making isn’t always pretty, but sometimes, committee review and bipartisan debate transf...
Our Opinion: It’s not too late to bring records into the sunlight
As North Carolina lawmakers continue hammering out a state budget, they can make the most of their e...
Our Opinion: Tackle tobacco with education, not regulation
A federally funded group of academics wants to snuff out tobacco use, but not by developing products...
Our Opinion: Booze blunders hasten ‘last call’ for ABC system
North Carolina’s obsolete alcohol sales bureaucracy was dealt tandem blows this month as its chairma...
Our Opinion: Why is Lucama’s mayor alienating a state lawmaker?
More than two dozen North Carolina cities and towns pay lobbyists to advocate for their interests in...
Our Opinion: Constitution Day celebrates principles that define America
It’s invoked in immigration debates, campus speaker controversies, gun law logjams, copyright clashe...
Our Opinion: 9/11 attacks united Americans at devastating cost
Editor’s note: In observance of Patriot Day, The Wilson Times is republishing two editorials written...
Our Opinion: Video lottery bill ignores unregulated sweepstakes games
North Carolina legislators seem to be OK with gambling just so long as the House — the one that meet...
Our Opinion: Protect charter school students' civil liberties
Families’ fight against a discriminatory dress code will continue, but a court ruling in the case co...
Our Opinion: Compromise can solve our state’s employment crisis
It’s time for North Carolinians sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses hobbled by pub...
Our Opinion: Lawmakers, be good sports and kindly butt out
When legislators have a vested interest in the outcome, no institution is safe from their meddling —...
Our Opinion: Insulate public utilities from cities' politics
North Carolina’s most prominent civil rights organization entered the fray this week in a yearlong d...
Our Opinion: Transparency foes don't represent NC stakeholders
Who says North Carolina’s state employees and schoolteachers are against transparency? Lobbying eff...
Taxpayers deserve transparency, not government secrecy
Senate Bill 355, legislation that promotes and enhances public access to the performance records of ...
Our Opinion: NC should let public review body camera video
The standard objection, a familiar talking point recited so often it’s become a cliché, goes somethi...
Our Opinion: 'Hands-Free NC' a flawed approach to highway safety
Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey wants drivers’ hands on the steering wheel, not on their smartpho...
Our Opinion: 'Impersonation' ban will punish protected speech
Before they vote to make online impersonation a crime, state senators should chew the fat with Jim A...
Our Opinion: Misguided bill could make some criticism a crime
Some North Carolina lawmakers want public activism at government meetings to be a high-stakes affair...
Our Opinion: Lift veil of secrecy shrouding public employee records
Your taxes pay their salaries, but when police officers, teachers and other public-sector workers ar...
Our Opinion: North Carolina should join states' convention call
Three out of four people want congressional term limits, but the likelihood that lawmakers will vote...
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