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In this July 20 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, flanked by Reps Frank Pallone and Bobby Scott discusses the Republican efforts to replace Obamacare during a news conference last week.

Editorials

If Democrats want the House, Nancy Pelosi shouldn’t be speaker

If Democrats have any chance of retaking the House, they will only do it with a new speaker.

N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, left, and N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore are backing proposed six state constitutional amendments, including two that would reduce the governor’s appointment power. Gov. Roy Cooper has sued to keep the two amendments off the November ballot.

Editorials

The NC ballot shouldn’t be a riddle. Or a lie.

NC lawmakers should not be allowed to put misleading amendment questions on the November ballot

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the press cabin of Air Force One before a rally at Orlando Melbourne International Airport, in Melbourne, Fla., Feb. 18, 2017.

Opinion

President Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press.

The president’s attacks on a free press are so egregious that nearly all McClatchy papers are joining a national effort to run editorials calling for an end to it.

UNC Board of Governors member Tom Fetzer, a former Raleigh mayor, vetted the leading contender for chancellor of Western Carolina University after noticing what he said was a misrepresentation on the candidate’s resume.

Opinion

UNC’s obsession with secrecy is hurting it

We agree with an important point Tom Fetzer made involving the misplaced and almost obsessive desire for secrecy when searching for the leader of one of our state universities.

Pastor Andrew Brunson of Black Mountain, NC, arrives at his house in Izmir, Turkey, on Wednesday.

Opinion

A pastor from NC is confined in Turkey. Free Andrew Brunson.

Turkey has accused Andrew Brunson of participating in a failed coup attempt in 2016, but has presented no credible evidence to back its charges.

The “radical” Erica McAdoo, center, candidate for NC House 63.

Opinion

Republicans just released a 35-page ‘oppo’ report on this NC candidate. It backfired

GOP tries to fling dirt on Democrat in NC House race but does the opposite.

Opinion

The barbarians are at UNC’s gate. Who will stop them?

UNC Board of Governors members used to set aside partisan politics and let the UNC president run the system. That tradition is now threatened.

Members of a Central American family traveling with a caravan of migrants prepare to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 29, 2018. The family journeyed in a caravan to the U.S. border to ask for asylum but were told by U.S. immigration officials that the San Diego crossing was already at capacity.

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Strong borders don’t require a closed heart

Rep. David Price and ACLU are pushing back against Trump’s harsh border policies

Despite efforts by Congress and the Trump administration to kill the Affordable Care Act, the health care plan is becoming more popular and average rates for Blue Cross ACA plan are expected to drop in 2019.

Editorials

The Affordable Care Act lives. Now let it thrive.

A Blue Cross ACA rate drop signals that the health care plan is working

In this image made from July 6, 2016, video captured by a camera in the squad car of St. Anthony Police officer Jeronimo Yanez, the Minnesota police officer shoots at Philando Castile in the vehicle during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minn. Yanez’s backup officer Joseph Kauser is seen standing on the passenger side of the vehicle. The video was made public by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, Tuesday, June 20, 2017, just days after the officer was acquitted on all counts in the case.

Opinion

Police profiling of NC motorists must stop

NC data base on traffic stops confirms racial profiling

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a key member of the group, walk through Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017.

Opinion

Impeach Rosenstein? C’mon, Rep. Mark Meadows.

The push to impeach Rod Rosenstein is about as likely to succeed as a campaign to make Roseanne Barr the next head of the NAACP.

Gov. Roy Cooper and Democrats were silent when one of their own switched parties to manipulate a North Carolina Supreme Court race.

Opinion

NC Democrats say they’re the party of principles. Why are they quiet about gaming an election?

What are the 6 NC constitutional amendments proposed on the fall ballot?

Editorials

The proposed constitutional amendments are a hot mess

Call for a NC special session is an abuse of the amendment process

Protesters hold signs at a rally held by Belhaven Mayor Adam O'Neal after he completed his walk all the way from Belhaven to the N.C. legislature in Raleigh to protest the closing of a local hospital in his town.

Opinion

There’s more common ground in NC than you might think

Even in the politically charged N.C. General Assembly, there is significant legislation with bipartisan support.

North Carolina football coach Larry Fedora answers a question during the 2018 ACC Kickoff in Charlotte.

Opinion

Larry Fedora doesn’t lead with his head

UNC football coach gets it wrong with ACC media days remarks on football, concussions, and CTE

Opinion

Does more money buy better university leadership?

Rising pay for UNC leaders may eventually purchase more caution than leadership.

Trump indicates he believes Putin over US intelligence agencies regarding election meddling

Opinion

Donald Trump’s disgraceful bow to Russia

President Trump chooses the wrong side in Monday press conference. Will enough Republicans finally say so?

Attendees wave signs showing their support for school choice during the opening number as hundreds came to a school choice rally held at the N.C. Museum of History on Jan. 23, 2018.

Opinion

Shrinking public schools reflects the state's neglect

One reason a smaller share of NC schoolchildren are choosing traditional public schools is a lack of state funding.

These dogs spent their lives as part of a Rougemont dog fighting ring

Opinion

NC should give fighting dogs a second chance

NC legislature should consider reforming laws that call for euthanizing all dogs involved in dogfighting.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), left, and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) conduct a news conference on October 4, 2017, in the Capitol.

Editorials

The Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that Russia meddled. But Trump is in denial.

President Donald Trump and some of his Republican allies have expressed an extraordinary amount of denial about Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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