Editorial:  It's being funded largely with federal and state air-quality grants, but a new traffic-signal system on Raleigh streets shapes up as a quality-of-life improvement too.

Editorial:  If the Boy Scouts ever need a slogan, they might consider the words of Greensboro attorney Robert Dick Douglas Jr. of Greensboro, who said of scouting, "It filled my life with the right things." That's a lot of right things in a life of 100 years.

Editorial:  State Rep. Jennifer Weiss of Cary has, in her 12 years in the General Assembly, made her mark as a progressive voice (sometimes one in the wilderness) who did not back down from a belief that government can do good things for average people.

editorial:  Change is riding on the wintery winds. Small marvels appear, first in the swamp maples, awakening pink against blue winter skies. Miracles are heard in the voices of trilling spring peepers and in the awakening songs of tree frogs.

editorial:  On the campaign trail, Iran is easy and the words are hard.

In North Carolina, a state where the constitution promises an education as close to free "as practicable," students at the state's institutions of higher learning might well ask, "Who's defining 'practicable' these days?" Because substantial increases in tuition and fees over the last decade and then some have made the hill, the financial hill, steeper for students at all campuses of the University of North Carolina system.

Editorial:  Debate over what should or should not be done to speed along our slow recovery from the Great Recession is all over the lot, much of it partisan and often bitter, and intensified by a presidential election year.

Editorial:  Jack Frost was spotted the other day, doing the backstroke on one of the Great Lakes and then playing some tennis in his Bermuda shorts. "Winter?" he said. "Used to nip at a lot of noses myself. But the winter business has been a little too slow."

Editorial:  When the planned Lightner Public Safety Center came before the public in Raleigh, with a $175 million price tag, the reaction was the dreaded sound of one hand clapping.

Editorial:  A courtroom in Fayetteville is the arena where a battle over the fairness of North Carolina's death penalty is unfolding.