
DION: Six things I did before the apocalypse
Old guys like me always believe the world is getting worse. You’re young and strong and you’re hell in a fistfight, and you figure if you lose your white-collar job, you can just go tend […]

JACKSON: Amazon data center is a big win for the region
Amazon’s commitment to invest $10 billion in a cloud computing and artificial intelligence data center campus in Richmond County signals a transformative era for the Sandhills region. Located in Hamlet’s Energy Way Industrial Park, this […]

GINGRICH: Balancing the budget through better health
Everyone who cares about the lives and health of our fellow Americans should read the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s Make Our Children Healthy Again report. It is a devastating 72-page outline of the steady […]

BARONE: The new politics of Metropole vs. Heartland
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. […]

MATTHEWS: Happy Father’s Day in heaven, Dad-o
Three years ago this month, I lost my dad. It was on June 11, eight days before Father’s Day. Losing a loved one is never easy, but to have it happen so close to that […]

ROBBINS: Preserving the blessings of liberty
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Those words from “Tyranny of the Status Quo” by Milton and Rose Friedman were true before they were memorialized in 1984. The capacity of government to […]