Editorials

Wait, the president is coming back?

This week more than 825,000 North Carolinians will see their unemployment benefits evaporate from an average $877 to just $277. This week landlords will demand rent. Lenders want mortgage payments. Monthly utility bills must be paid.

Right now, America needs heroes. And we have one for the ages in John Lewis.

On July 14, Gov. Roy Cooper offered a school reopening plan that allowed school systems to offer a mix of in-person and remote learning — or offer only remote learning. Some systems have already decided they will offer only the latter option, at least initially, as cases of COVID-19 surge in…

“Tough day for us at Twitter,” company chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted last Wednesday, after several high-profile accounts on his site were hacked. This was an understatement.

Our neighbor to the north, Virginia, has enacted a new set of temporary rules promoted by Gov. Ralph Northam to help protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The deployment of federal agents in Portland, Ore., over the objection of state and local officials, to shoot and gas protesters and to snatch people from the street to stuff them into unmarked vans is an unconscionable assault on democracy and a dangerous and needless ratcheting up of tension.

Unemployment benefits provide people who lose jobs with a little help for a little while.

North Carolinians seeking responsible leadership and concern for public health need look no further than their county courthouse or local retail stores.

Say his name: John Neville.

Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday drew a path through the uncharted terrain of a pandemic. He announced that North Carolina’s public schools will open in August with a mix of classroom and remote learning.

There’s something very wrong when people who have to keep showing up at their jobs despite the dangers of a deadly pandemic are earning less money than those who lost jobs and stayed home.

In mid-May, as the COVID pandemic-related financial challenges hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians were about to face came into focus, the state House of Representatives passed without a dissenting vote, a bill to protect consumers from debt settlement companies. These companies explo…

Ghislaine Maxwell finally has been arrested. We’ve all been waiting for this shoe to drop.

In the wake of nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd in May, some protesters have taken to toppling statues of figures from history they say practiced or endorsed slavery or white supremacy. The main targets have been monuments to the Confederacy.

At the close of the Fourth of July weekend, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy may have unwittingly declared a new independence — a breakaway from the tyranny of fossil fuels in generating electricity.