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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: 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...

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: Lawmakers, be good sports and kindly butt out

When legislators have a vested interest in the outcome, no institution is safe from their meddling —...

Transparency foes don’t represent NC stakeholders

Who says North Carolina’s state employees and schoolteachers are against transparency? Lobbying eff...

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: 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: Counties once again looking to operate in the dark

Like a bad penny, legislation to hide public notices from the public is back in the N.C. General Ass...

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: Bob Allen roved around and gave us a newspaper

A staple of this newspaper for nearly seven decades, Bob Allen’s column “Roving Around,” is missing from the pages this week. Its absence is glaring; Bob’s insight into life in Wake Forest …

Mask mandate drafts businesses as Cooper’s cops

Guest editorial North Carolina’s newest law enforcers won’t be sworn to protect and serve. They’ll be unarmed, and instead of badges, their uniforms will feature name tags from supermarkets, …

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 …

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 help …

Ask Congress to support local news during pandemic

During this coronavirus pandemic, access to accurate and trustworthy information in your community is as critical to life under quarantine and as sought after as hand sanitizer and face …

Protest is essential, even amid growing coronavirus crisis

With one unnecessary arrest and one tone-deaf tweet, police placed North Carolina smack dab in the middle of a national COVID-19 controversy. Videos from Tuesday’s #ReopenNC protest rally show …

Certificate of need laws could harm COVID-19 patients

As COVID-19 cases grow, state officials have suspended a rule that would have prevented North Carolina hospitals from adding beds. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced March …

Put transparency laws to work this Sunshine Week

Guest editorial Want to know how much your police chief and school principal are paid? How about a full rundown of your city council’s spending during that out-of-state conference? The …