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This graduation season, student debt relief still feels out of reach
College is expensive — and for most Americans, higher education is still largely unaffordable. The cost of college continues to rise at rates that salaries and income aren’t keeping up with. This is especially true for low-income and working-class students who must depend on alternative...
Congress shuns passenger safety in FAA reauthorization
The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year and are keeping their fingers crossed that their flights will take off and land without incident. Boeing has...
Don’t let Congress widen the digital divide
Nearly a third of Americans who don’t have broadband say the reason is because it costs too much — and unfortunately, Congress is prepared to let that figure rise dramatically. Lawmakers have yet to renew funding for the federal government’s Affordable Connectivity Program, or ACP,...
Our Opinion: Senators can make NC the 20th state to call convention
The N.C. House has done its part to rein in federal overreach and restore fiscal discipline to a deficit-addicted Congress. More than a year later, it’s the state Senate’s turn to make a powerful statement and add momentum to a national good-government reform movement. Two...
Our Opinion: Top teacher and principal set a sterling example
THUMBS UP to Wilson County Schools’ 2024 Teacher and Principal of the Year honorees. District officials recognized Beddingfield High’s Jenny Hayes as Principal of the Year on Thursday and surprised Hunt High social studies teacher Lisa Wheeler with her Teacher of the Year award and...
Our Opinion: Congress dithers while NC fortifies immigration law
North Carolina is about 1,500 miles from the United States’ southwestern border with Mexico, but migrants, asylum-seekers and guest farmworkers regularly find their way to the Tar Heel State, as does fentanyl and other deadly drugs smuggled into the country. With border security a chief...
