Mooneyham: I-95 tolling scheme

February 9, 2012 - 3:05am

State transportation officials should just forget about improving Interstate 95 while going ahead with their tolling scheme on the highway.Why?

Williams: America's preventable disaster

February 8, 2012 - 3:05am

Let’s think about the kind of mess that we’re in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion.

Mooneyham: New generation of Democrats

February 7, 2012 - 3:05am

The Republican Party pros were downright giddy.

Hood: N.C. schools failing

February 5, 2012 - 3:05am

If North Carolina were a country, our level of taxpayer funding for education would be near the top — but the performance of our public schools would be mediocre.

Krauthammer: Iran's Berlin Wall

February 5, 2012 - 3:05am

Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts.

Mooneyham: Bowles made right decision

February 5, 2012 - 3:05am

It might have made a nice Hollywood movie.

Fitzsimon: Election talk starts with money

February 5, 2012 - 3:05am

Speculation about likely Democratic candidates for governor and lieutenant governor is dominating Raleigh’s political world these days.

Campbell: N.C.'s 18th Century education

February 4, 2012 - 3:05am

The need for education reform grows more obvious daily.

Mooneyham: Some cheese with GOP whine

February 3, 2012 - 3:05am

It’s a funny thing when you try to reverse 30 or 40 years of public policy in a single year.Some people don’t like it.

Dionne: Romney is both winning and losing

February 2, 2012 - 3:05am

Mitt Romney can argue that winning ugly is still winning, especially in a contest he could not afford to lose.

Williams: Blame Obama voters, too

February 1, 2012 - 3:05am

There’s been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama’s domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies.

Mooneyham: Democrats sprinting to primary

January 31, 2012 - 3:05am

The immediate aftermath of Gov. Beverly Perdue’s decision not to seek a second term was predictable.

Fitzsimon: GOP should worry

January 30, 2012 - 3:05am

Republican legislative leaders must be awfully worried about Gov.

Krauthammer: Obama shifts to low gear

January 29, 2012 - 3:07am

Once upon a time, small ball was not President Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address.

Mooneyham: Perdue's exit

January 29, 2012 - 3:05am

Months ago, then-state Republican Party head Tom Fetzer predicted that Gov. Beverly Perdue wouldn’t run for a second term.

Vidant: New name, same mission

January 29, 2012 - 3:05am

Earlier this week, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina officially became Vidant Health.

Hood: Perdue makes history, helps party

January 29, 2012 - 3:05am

When Gov. Beverly Perdue rocked the political establishment Jan. 26 by announcing her plans not to run for re-election, she made history.

Campbell: Big question for Democrats

January 28, 2012 - 3:05am

As news spread Gov. Beverly Perdue would not seek a second term we couldn’t help but think about the Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler. “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.” Democratic leaders have been secretly suggesting to Perdue that she step down, so while her decision is surprising it isn’t shocking.

Friedman: No more average

January 27, 2012 - 3:05am

In an essay, titled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today: “a man and a dog.

Dionne: Obama Reagan in reverse

January 26, 2012 - 3:05am

It was to be expected that in the course of his State of the Union address, President Obama would mention the killing of Osama bin Laden, whose death represented the culmination of the battle against terrorism that began on Sept. 11, 2001.

Williams: Schools of education failing

January 25, 2012 - 3:05am

Larry Sand’s article “No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can’t Read” — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America’s education.

Mooneyham: Police state defined

January 24, 2012 - 3:05am

Apparently police paid by local taxpayers and employed by local governments aren’t subject to direction by the locally-elected officials chosen by those local taxpayers.

Krugman: Watching Romney's tax dance

January 23, 2012 - 3:10am

Call me peculiar, but I’m actually enjoying the spectacle of Mitt Romney doing the Dance of the Seven Veils — partly out of voyeurism, of course, but also because it’s about time that we had this discussion.

Hood: State's woes predate 2007

January 22, 2012 - 3:05am

To get North Carolina’s ailing economy back on track, policymakers must first come to grips with this little-recognized truth: our problems didn’t start in 2007.

Krauthammer: Romney ripe for 'rich' narritive

January 22, 2012 - 3:05am

“Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?” — Former presidential candidate Rick Perry It’s the campaign line of the year, and while the author won’t be carrying it into the general election, the eventual nominee will.