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...
Our Opinion: Election integrity doesn't require a federal takeover
A sweeping overhaul of U.S. voting laws hurtling through the House would steamroll state legislature...
Our Opinion: For innocent man, governor's pardon is too long overdue
A year and a half after winning his freedom, Ray Finch feels forgotten. The Wilson man spent more t...
Our Opinion: Counties once again looking to operate in the dark
February 5, 2021Like a bad penny, legislation to hide public notices from the public is back in the N.C. General Ass...
Our Opinion: Greensboro Four sparked movement to end segregation
Six decades ago, four Black college students’ peaceful protest sparked a movement to end segregation...
Our Opinion: Bring body camera videos into the sunlight
Now shrouded behind a veil of secrecy, police body camera and dashboard camera recordings could beco...
Our Opinion: King's dream should convict, challenge and unite us
Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream of equality, justice and unity with a quarter million people...
Talk Back: Skateboarders elicit strong reactions
December 21, 2020Enterprise readers shared their views on the newspaper’s editorial, “Skateboarding is not a crime, S...
Our Opinion: Skateboarding is not a crime, commissioners
Psychologist and public intellectual Jordan Peterson’s bestseller “12 Rules for Life” should be requ...
Our Opinion: King's dream should convict, challenge and unite us
Fifty-seven years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream of equality, justice and unity with a quarter million people in the nation’s capital. Delivered from the Lincoln Memori...
Our Opinion: Political clothing offers no excuse to mistreat guests
Rachel Williams says a T-shirt got her thrown out of a Wilson doctor’s office. In the Charlotte suburb of Gastonia, Lydia Sturgues-Robinson said an ice cream parlor booted her over a …
Our Opinion: Pandemic makes Pumpkin Festival in 2020 too risky
As Nash UNC Health Care continues to cope with a growing number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, Nash County — like the rest of North Carolina and the United States — is having to ...
Our Opinion: Police reform must start with transparency
As stakeholders work to repair North Carolina’s criminal justice system, they should make Louis Brandeis’ famous declaration their constant refrain: Sunlight is the best …
Our Opinion: Open government guarantee belongs in NC Constitution
Along with public health, the COVID-19 pandemic is testing government transparency in North Carolina. State officials have withheld vital information about coronavirus outbreaks that would …
Our Opinion: Southern Nash shows its pride in our students
Southern Nash County had never witnessed a graduation parade before, but the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the last few months of the school year, creating a “new normal” and a new vo...
Our Opinion: Cooper's church occupancy limits are unconstitutional
In the age of COVID-19, is pushing a shopping cart really safer than holding a hymnal? Gov. Roy Cooper’s May 5 executive order reopening parts of North Carolina’s economy allows …
Our Opinion: Transparency, free speech win in NC Supreme Court battles
The North Carolina Supreme Court supports transparency in higher education and free speech for motorists, two well-reasoned Friday rulings suggest. A long-awaited decision in DTH Media Corp. v. …
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