2+ week, 3+ day ago   (140+ words) Through this partnership, eligible VGCC students will build on their academic achievements while benefiting from: • 10% tuition discount on undergraduate and graduate tuition. • Tuition deferral option, allowing eligible students whose employers offer to repay some or all of their tuition. • Access…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (666+ words) Many kids returning to school this year aren’t looking forward to reconnecting with teachers or students. Instead, they’re dreading new encounters with school resource officers, zero tolerance policies and state laws that criminalize youthful misbehavior. This punitive infrastructure, collectively known…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (280+ words) The family is the fundamental unit of society, as recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and its stability and predictability are of paramount importance in securing the common good. As the conservative philosopher Michael Novak once wrote, “Political…...

2+ week, 3+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ 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, 4+ day ago   (714+ words) When North Carolina’s State Board of Elections met Aug. 20 to decide early voting options for 20 counties where local boards couldn’t agree, it surprised no one that Auditor Dave Boliek’s GOP majority largely chose plans crafted by Republicans. What was surprising…...

2+ week, 5+ 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, 5+ 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   (164+ words) Historical, cultural and commercial ties between North Carolina and the UK run deep, with tens of thousands of North Carolinians going to work for British companies each day, an estimated 40,000 Brits living in North Carolina and many North Carolina residents…...