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Opinion

Be Careful Who You Vote For

Local Commentaries

A short story about why voting is important. Eight people are on a bus - three voted to drive off a cliff, two vote to go get ice cream and three do not vote at all because they don’t like either option. They all end up in the same place. The 2025 election results show 2,052,031 people ...

Just End Bathroom Breaks

Local Commentaries

DURHAM, N.C.—It’s almost college-basketball season. That means it’s almost time for an annual ritual at a university in this formerly sleepy tobacco town that has become one of the points in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Duke—which you, faithful reader of the column, will ...

Fetterman Standing Tall In Shutdown Aftermath

Editor's Corner

Bad blood between political parties has created disruptions in the nation’s capital for the last 12 years. The most recent turmoil came in the form of the third government shutdown during that time period. Looking in from the outside, there is plenty of culpability on both sides to get a ...

Paying Tribute To Those Who Selflessly Served

In Our Opinion

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day or the eleventh month 106 years ago, the hostilities of World War I came (for the most part) to an end. But though it was billed as the war to end all wars, American troops have continued to put their lives on the line for the rest of us and the world ...