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Editorial: Burr and Tillis fail to use power to end shutdown

Friday, Jan. 25, 2019 -- North Carolina Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis have the power and the duty to get government up and running. They had the chance to do that job Thursday and failed.

JAMELLE BOUIE: Trump's wall of shame

Friday, Jan. 25, 2019 -- The wall of Donald Trump's campaign and presidency has always operated both as a discrete proposal -- an actual structure to be built under his leadership -- and as a symbol with a clear meaning. Whether praised by its supporters or condemned by its opponents, the wall is a stand-in for the larger promise of broad racial (and religious) exclusion and domination.

KEITH POSTON: Time is now to affirm state's commitment to public schools

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 -- There has been a troubling and significant erosion of our state's historic commitment to public schools. That's why we believe the Number One issue for 2019 should be to: "Renew North Carolina's Commitment to Public Schools for the Public Good."

Editorial: N.C. schools' chief sloganeering won't help improve students' achievement

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 -- If school children were voters, the N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction's clever sloganeering about ending school testing would garner swoons from the electorate. But they don't vote. Their parents do pay taxes and what they don't like is students who underachieve. Merely testing less doesn't mean students will learn more. Adequate funding and high standards for all public schools will.

JUSTIN PARMENTER: School choice doesn't happen in a vacuum

Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 -- Charter schools were originally intended as places of innovation, where educators could develop new approaches in a less regulated setting and collaborate with traditional public schools to improve outcomes for all. In some states, charter schools have been able to stay relatively true to that mission. Not so in North Carolina. The rapidly expanding charter schools siphon money away from traditional public schools and reduce what services those public schools can offer to students who remain, according to a recent Duke University study.

DAVID LEONHARDT: The Shutdown Shows the Weakness of the Resistance

the government shutdown has shown the limits of the grassroots progressive movement. The resistance, as it has become known, has had virtually no effect on the politics of the shutdown -- and a stronger movement could have a big effect.

BARRY SAUNDERS: Charles Scott calls UNC system board's treatment of Folt 'petty'

Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 -- "She knew what it was going to cost her when she did it," Charles Scott said, "but she (UNC Chancellor Carol Folt) felt it was such an important moral stand to take that she did it anyway. The way the board responded to her was very petty and vindictive. How is that, in any form or fashion, beneficial to the university?"

MAUREEN DOWD: Beware the furies, President Trump

Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 -- After many false springs and discouraging backlashes, we are finally experiencing a revolutionary assertion of women's power that is transforming Congress. "Kill Bill"-style, the fiery Democratic women keep coming, driven by vengeance against the wicked man in the White House with the history of hurting women and swearing false oaths. Swooping toward 2020, the moment of truth for Donald Trump that is also aptly the centennial of women's suffrage.

Statement from former UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees members

Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019 -- We stand together in our support of Chancellor (Carol) Folt. Regardless of one's view on Silent Sam, the Confederate monument had become a lightning rod for violence and intolerance on this campus and had to be removed. We realize taking it down quickly was controversial. It is our hope that we will not have to continue fighting the Civil War by trying to resurrect it elsewhere on campus.

Editorial: Consumers embrace renewable energy, so should N.C. legislative leaders

Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 -- Duke Energy's roof top solar rebates were gone in a flash. That should be a bright signal to North Carolina policy makers. It is past time to expand opportunities to embrace renewable energy and put the state back on the road to national leadership in growing its clean energy economy.

Editorial: UNC's stature threatened by system board's mediocrity

Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 -- The latest turmoil over removing Chancellor Carol Folt is a clear signpost that the UNC System is headed down a path to mediocrity. It comes at great expense to the state's reputation. It damages the ability to have the best and brightest take on the challenges of the future so North Carolina citizens are positioned to prosper and thrive.

UNC'S CAROL FOLT: Leaving a campus where all are safe, welcome and can thrive

Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 -- "I will continue to focus on our core mission, do all I can to make sure every person on our campus can thrive and feel welcome, and push forward with Carolina's campaign and history task force. There has been too much recent disruption due to the monument controversy. Carolina's leadership needs to return its full attention to helping our University achieve its vision and to live its values. ... I have authorized the removal of the base and commemorative plaques from the Confederate Monument site in McCorkle Place. ... No one learns at their best when they feel unsafe. "

Editorial: Political spite won't advance Wake County needs

Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 -- It is one thing when public officials, acting out of principle, take unpopular stands that benefit the public good. But earlier this week a narrow majority of the Wake County Commission took an unpopular stand, not for lofty ideals, but merely to settle a political score.

TIM WHITE: In Raleigh, D.C., the times, they are a-changin' -- again

Wednesday Jan. 9, 2019 -- There is a national mood swing beginning, an awakening to the destructiveness of the bully politics that's always been a part of the game but since the Newt Gingrich era has come to be dominant political behavior. Voters now are electing people who clearly are not mean-spirited ideologues, instead choosing candidates who often refuse to hew to either party's doctrines and dogmas. They're also electing more women and minorities than ever before.

Editorial: Legislators; abandon partisan bullying and focus on state's urgent needs

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 -- It is a new year and a new day at the General Assembly. The hyper-partisan atmosphere, fueled by a veto-proof majority has dissipated. We hope now that a gubernatorial veto carries some clout, legislators will think and act more cooperatively and less ideologically. Legislators need to address the needs of ALL North Carolinians - not just narrow and favored special interests or powerful partisan patrons.

JIM JENKINS: Greg Poole, a man in full

Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019 -- While hearing of Greg Poole's death at 84 was a sad blow, there was comfort in a legacy both of accomplishment and a most happy life lived in full.

Editorial: Playground antics don't help resolve real worries about election conduct

Thursday, Jan. 3, 2018 -- The performances of state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes and the party's Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse -- amid efforts by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to keep state regulation of elections up and running - might easily be confused with behavior on a bad day at a pre-school child care center.

Editorial: Legislative leadership's legacy is betrayal of reforms, openness, it promised

Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 -- There is little to lament that the uncontested rule of Republican Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore in the General Assembly is fading. Without the veto-proof majority it will be more difficult - if Democrats are organized and focused - to continue to legislate in secret, instantaneously and by ambush.

Editorial: Gov. Cooper, Atty. Gen. Stein need to probe 9th District election troubles

Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018 -- Gov. Roy Cooper and Atty. Gen. Josh Stein need to bring together an independent, non-partisan panel to look into why there was no action to investigate the voting irregularities in Bladen and other southeastern North Carolina counties, identify real problems with current voting procedures and recommend common sense solutions to make sure our elections are clean and fair.

JOSH STEIN: Affordable Care Act protects people and must be saved

Friday, Dec. 21, 2018 -- The Affordable Care Act has clearly succeeded in helping more North Carolinians get coverage. But the benefits go much broader. Nearly 5 million North Carolinians have a preexisting condition and could be priced out of the insurance market. More than 1.6 million people in our state have benefitted from preventive care and other protections, and 1.8 million seniors are seeing about $1,000 a year in savings on prescription drugs. Those are the facts.

Editorial: Time for state's congressional delegation to protect access to health care

Friday, Dec. 21, 2018 -- The fate of the important and much-needed Affordable Health Care program rests with the Supreme Court and Congress. The Republican majority in North Carolina's delegation, has shown unwavering opposition to the program, but needs to change its tune so access to affordable health care is available to all those who need it.

Editorial: Cooper offers legislators a deal they shouldn't refuse

Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 -- Gov. Roy Cooper has offered GOP legislative leaders a good deal on legislation to overhaul election, ethics and lobbying oversight. The bill Cooper's desk is fatally flawed. Keeping investigations into campaign violations secret is wrong. If legislators remove those provisions Cooper says he'll sign a new bill.

Editorial: N.C. GOP, more than state Elections Board, needs transparency

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 -- There are important questions to be answered before the Ninth Congressional District election is certified. Were absentee ballots cast, particularly in Bladen County, actually legitimate votes? What happened to thousands of absentee ballots that were requested but never returned? State GOP Chairman Robin Hayes, Senate leader Phil Berger, House Speaker Tim Moore and other Republican leaders routinely make demands and accuse others of failing to do their jobs and lacking transparency. They need to stop the finger pointing and start working for fair districts, fair access, and fair elections.

JOHN RAILEY: Witness to history - 'Damned if they ain't flew!'

Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 -- History was made in a place that has been home to descendants of those who'd shipwrecked off its shores, as well as modern-day outcasts, adrift from families, responsibilities, big cities and other problems. Some come to Dare County to find themselves. Others come to lose themselves. It's a place of both forgiveness and foreboding.

Editorial: Burr, Tillis must set higher standard for court nominees

Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 -- When it comes to administering justice, Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis aren't doing the job for the North Carolinians who put them in office. They need to demand more of judicial nominees than a pleasingly partisan resume and fealty to Donald Trump.