Opinion
VE Day is not just a memory; it’s a mandate
Eighty years ago today, Nazi Germany surrendered and the guns of Europe fell silent. Crowds swarmed Times Square and Piccadilly Circus. The free world exhaled. May 8, 1945 — Victory in Europe Day — was more than the end of a war. It was a...
NOAA cuts put coastal communities at risk
Every summer brings the familiar joys of sunny weather, family barbecues and beach vacations. But for Americans on the Gulf or Atlantic coasts, the daily weather forecast always comes with a constant thrum of worry — any small disturbance in the Atlantic has the potential...
Trump’s mass deportation scheme is failing. Good.
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that immigrants in the United States can use a smartphone app to claim free plane tickets and $1,000 payments if they’re willing to “self-deport.” During her Senate confirmation hearing for the position of DHS secretary, Kristi...
Who should manage our $127 billion in pension funds?
The responsibility for investing and managing North Carolina’s public employee pension funds falls completely upon our elected state treasurer. For decades, there has been discussion about whether this is too much responsibility to place on one person’s shoulders. State Treasurer Brad Briner was the latest...
Note from a reader: Silent majority supports DEI
Anne Smiley read my column on the “whitewashing of America” in The Fayetteville Observer. I think she and I are kindred spirits in the way we see the current administration tearing up the progress of creating a just society, a world in which all people...
A public servant to the last
It was 250 years ago this week that the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia to organize America’s rebellion against the British crown. War had broken out a few weeks earlier at Lexington and Concord. But there was as yet no national government, no formal...