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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 …

Draft community plan and land use map now available for review

WAKE FOREST – The town of Wake Forest will host Community Plan Open House workshops on Tuesday, Feb....

Wake Tech selects Skanska to build plant for Wendell campus

WENDELL — Wake Technical Community College has selected Skanska to construct a central energy plant ...

Franklin County seeks EMS input

LOUISBURG — Franklin County is seeking community input about its Emergency Medial Services or EMS. T...