Opinion

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Opinion: A contrast that couldn’t be sharper

Election 2024 is certainly as classic an American courtroom drama as sure as “Twelve Angry Men.” The contrast, nay contradiction, between the two leading witnesses could not be clearer. Speaking of angry men, one star witness in the witness box seems to swim in the spittle of his own ...

Letter to the editor: Building too tall

To the editor: Eight stories? Really? Does the city really want the tallest building in town to be a hotel/grocery store? Does the city really want to remove the parking-friendly lot that is in constant use and gives easy access to so many businesses? Must we always succumb to more ...

Opinion: How did the GOP become the party of crackpots?

Mark Robinson, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina and current lieutenant governor, is in trouble again. Not just because Robinson has referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and a “perv,” expressed support for reinstating slavery, said he watched transgender pornography, ...

Opinion: Climate migration: the new Dust Bowl?

At over 230 deaths, Helene is now America’s deadliest hurricane since Katrina ripped a hole in the Superdome in 2005. For inland areas supposedly immune from catastrophic storm surges, mountainous “climate havens” like Asheville, North Carolina, were startled to bear the brunt of ...

Opinion: How Trump’s court appointees may have tipped the election

Since the three Donald Trump appointees took their seats, the U.S. Supreme Court has waved its magic wand and come up with pro-Trump rulings in two high-profile cases. Whether or not the intent of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett in those decisions was to help Trump ...