Opinion Columnists
NC is an unwanted No. 1 in tax rate
Among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, North Carolina has the highest rate of income tax on the first taxable dollar.
Opinion Columnists
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NED BARNETT
A new, local voice on the op-ed page
Marc Landry of Cary will write a weekly column on local and national issues.
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JIM JENKINS
Jenkins: Gordon Gee, relatively speaking
Ohio State President Gordon Gee has a trademark bow tie, a reputation for being a big money-raiser, a resume with multiple university presidencies on it...and a big mouth. The latter has now forced his early retirement.
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NED BARNETT
When the Korean War came home
Bill Rand was spared going to battle in Korea, but the war came to him. For two years he watched the wounded and broken arrive as he worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Choosing sides in Afghanistan
Unless Afghanistan can find a more capable successor to Karzai, it is hard to imagine the country being able to consolidate the hard-won security gains U.S. troops have made since 2009.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
How food stamps stoke the economy
Estimates from the consulting firm Moody’s Analytics suggest that each dollar spent on food stamps in a depressed economy raises GDP by about $1.70 – which means, by the way, that much of the money laid out to help families in need actually comes right back to the government in the...
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
2-year-olds seeking crisis, not consensus
What we don’t need is the steady diet of obstruction, diversion and gamesmanship that Republicans are trying to ram down the nation’s throat.
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JIM JENKINS
Jenkins: NC's connection to Watergate
The N.C. Museum of History offers a rich look back at the Watergate scandal that changed America, and the North Carolinians who played major roles.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Obama needs to make his mission to act on climate change
President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem. If Congress sticks to its policy of obstruction and willful ignorance, Obama should use his executive powers to the fullest extent. We are out of time...
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
How to legalize pot
The marijuana debate has entered a new stage. Today the most interesting and important question is no longer whether it will be legalized but how.
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OPINION COLUMNISTS
Japan’s economic model promising
These days we are, in economic terms, all Japanese – which is why the ongoing economic experiment in the country that started it all is so important, not just for Japan, but for the world.
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