Editorial:Evening programs for high school students could help many of them complete their studies and raise their prospects.

Editorial:E-mail was invented in 1971. Spam messages followed soon enough. But this mode of communication became ubiquitous just a decade and a half ago. Understandably, there's still confusion in North Carolina as to how e-mails to and from public officials ought to be handled under public records laws.

Editorial:We're all familiar with neighborhoods around the Triangle that positively shout the message that people there are well-acquainted with big money. You know the profile.

Editorial:North Carolina has good reason to let deserving illegal immigrants attend public colleges and universities.

Editorial:The state's annual budget bears the words North Carolina and costs billions of dollars. So does the Navy's newest submarine.

Editorial:To see unexcelled poetry in motion on these warming evenings, look into the skies for the darting blue-black forms of swallows flashing in the fading sunlight.

Letter:The writer of the April 23 letter "Dialogue first" hit the nail on the head in his rejoinder to Charles Krauthammer's column on nuclear rogues. We should not persist in policies that have failed in Vietnam, Cambodia and Iraq.

Letter:Regarding the April 22 article "Carter sees hope for Mideast peace": Ex-President Carter will continue to be widely criticized for meeting with Hamas recently. What harm can he do?

Letter:In his April 28 Point of View piece "Air travel: From magical to maddening," Bob Kochersberger displayed a nostalgic desire for air travel of a bygone era and ignored some realities of air transportation today.

Letter:Regarding the April 29 letter "Nutty nuclear ideas," it is true that nuclear power plants require a lot of water to operate. However, this water does not necessarily have to be potable.

Letter:Regarding your May 7 articles "Lake level won't stay up" and "Water rates in Raleigh may rise": I don't get it! We save water, and our leaders are going to raise water rates?

Letter:As I near graduation at N.C. State University, I can proudly say I've had only a few regrets during my time here. One of these is Hillsborough Street.

Point of View:The assumptions that inform future discussions on immigration are intrinsic to the outcome, for they will serve to fix the parameters of policy. Premise will determine purpose.

Point of View:The General Assembly starts its "short session" this week. It is going to seem a lot like every other such session in the last 10 years.

Point of View:In last week's once-in-a-lifetime Democratic presidential primary in North Carolina, with repeated visits by the candidates and Bill Clinton to cities and towns that had never seen a presidential candidate, let alone a former president, turnout was heavy -- 36 percent, twice the norm for primaries.

The North Carolina primary was a big test for the Democratic presidential candidates -- as well as for all the state and local candidates down the ballot.

George Will:The 1st Congressional District, the northernmost in the most culturally Southern state, has given the nation William Faulkner and Elvis Presley, and on Tuesday will have a special congressional election that will test the Republican hope that Barack Obama and his former pastor can be the basis of a Republican strategy to nationalize congressional races to the disadvantage of Democrats.

Ford:Years from now, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are finally a memory dwelt upon chiefly by men and women in their 50s and 60s (dwelt upon with some as-yet-unknowable mixture of pride and regret), we can be sure those veterans will reflect on the images preserved by their digital cameras and video-capable cell phones.