2+ week, 1+ day ago   (215+ words) WCSO public auction is Tuesday, Sept. 1 The Wilson County Sheriff's Office will have a public auction at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1. The auction of unclaimed inventory will take place on the side of the Wilson County Courthouse located on Goldsboro Street. End-of-summer…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (377+ words) Turn on cable news, and you will hear that voter identification remains one of the most divisive issues in American politics. But the American people apparently did not get the memo. On this question, the country is not divided. Only…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) “You are entitled to your opinion,” the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said. “But you are not entitled to your own facts.” For 40 years now, I’ve been opining about politics and public policy while also trying to lean against…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) On Aug. 22, a new set of U.S. tariffs went into effect. Those tariffs charge American buyers of Canadian goods — 569 categories of stuff including dairy, alcohol, electronics, furniture, building materials and other items amounting to a usual annual value of nearly $25 billion…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (725+ words) American women have been talking about breaking the glass ceiling since the 1970s. But the truth is this: In one important arena, women broke through that barrier at the very beginning of our nation’s story, creating a lasting legacy of service…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (395+ words) In late 1861, Union soldiers in Bloomfield, Missouri, found the local newspaper’s office empty and decided to put it to good use. Stars and Stripes covered the activities of the three Illinois regiments. Their commander in chief, of course, was U.S....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (332+ words) One of the most compelling parts of Stephanie Slade’s invaluable new book Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right is her discussion of J.D. Vance’s political transformation. Once he entered electoral politics, however, J.D. Vance changed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (676+ words) Our state’s greatest threat likely won’t come from storms, although we all know the damage hurricanes, floods and ice storms can create. It won’t come from political upheavals or a revolution, although we acknowledge the turmoil that could result. And…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (886+ words) Americans’ trust in core institutions has been dropping for decades, according to Gallup. It dropped from almost 50% in the late 1970s to about 40% in 1990, where it stayed until 2006, when it plunged down to the mid 30s. Around 2020, it plunged again and now…...