- Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:01 a.m.
This is an excerpt from “The Party Line” political blog at www.wfae.org, written by Dr. Michael Bitzer, professor...
- Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:05 a.m.
At a party a few years ago, a young reporter bounded over to my cluster of social nodders and, with the breathlessness of a born...
- Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:29 a.m.
The woman ahead of me in the checkout line had a cart full of groceries.
We sat in silence at Faith Lutheran Church.
- Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:15 a.m.
Each year in the United States around 6 million women conceive. Around a million deliberately abort the pregnancy. Another...
- Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:10 a.m.
It happened in only seconds. One minute we were laughing, and the next, we were in a panic, looking under beds, between cushions,...
- Friday, June 14, 2013 9:35 a.m.
This is from a preliminary analysis of The N.C. Fair Tax Act, conducted by selected staff and faculty of the University of North...
- Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:06 a.m.
WASHINGTON — It is reassuring that in the midst of so much government dysfunction, the IRS has resolved the question of...
- Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:16 a.m.
SALISBURY — The five people I meet in heaven — if I get there — will probably tell me I blew it by not...
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:04 a.m.
Before the January start of this legislative session, leaders of both houses proclaimed major overhaul of North Carolina’s...
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:02 a.m.
RALEIGH — If reforming North Carolina’s tax code were easy, one of the many tax-reform efforts of the past 20 years...
- Monday, June 10, 2013 5:00 p.m.
I didn’t set out to operate a catch-and-release program for carpenter bees this spring.
- Monday, June 10, 2013 12:16 a.m.
Am I rich? Not like the local businessman who said that this year’s tax increase would cost him $100,000 meaning he earns...
- Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:04 a.m.
On a recent flight — one of 20 that I’ve been on in the past two months — I wrestled my carry-on into the...
- Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:01 a.m.
One of the more irritating popular songs of recent decades was “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin.
- Friday, June 7, 2013 6:40 p.m.
NEW YORK — It was never quite clear what feminizing the workplace would mean when women en masse invaded corporate America...
