Op-Ed
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JOHN HOOD | Expand options to ease medical costs
RALEIGH — As the North Carolina General Assembly begins its 2025 session, lawmakers have many pressing issues to tackle. Topping the list will be addressing the immediate needs of Hurricane Helene victims and rebuilding the billions of dollars worth of infrastructure damaged or washed away by the storm. Legislators must…
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Rob Schofield | Josh Stein has all the things he needs to be a great governor, except maybe one
For some politicians, the rise to political power is meteoric and surprising. Donald Trump’s sudden ascent from conspiracy-theory-peddling reality TV host to the presidency is undoubtedly the most notable example of this phenomenon, but there have been others in recent years.
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Richard Hudson: Hitting the ground running
It is a new year and the 119th Congress has officially begun. I am honored to continue serving you, representing North Carolina’s new 9th District in Congress. As Fort Bragg’s Congressman, I will continue to be the voice for our veterans, servicemembers, and military families.
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JOHN HOOD | Post-COVID scores tumble in NC
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, student performance fell across much of the United States. According to a new study of 2022 math and reading scores, however, North Carolina students suffered one of the country’s biggest tumbles.
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Now that the election is over, what now?
Last month my candidate lost the election free and clear, at least in the Electoral College. (That’s a topic for another day.) My concern here isn’t why the election shook out the way it did. Many commentators far smarter than I have exhausted that subject (and some of us) without…
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Blocking Wounded Knee Bill for Lumbee recognition support undermines fairness
A recent objection by US Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina against the Wounded Knee Memorial bill introduced by Senator Mike Rounds from South Dakota demonstrates the inability to understand fairness.
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Richard Hudson: We have a mandate and it’s time to get to work
Nov. 5, 2024, is a historic day that will always be remembered as the day the American people delivered a resounding mandate — a mandate to get our country back on track.
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Richard Hudson: Cracking down on open borders and standing up for your safety
This Veterans Day, we honor and recognize the best among us – our brave men and women who have worn our nation’s uniform.
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Rob Schofield | Hurricane Helene sounds the climate and infrastructure alarm bells yet again
Tempting as it might be for those who’ve long watched, worried and warned about the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change, the massive – what many are describing as “Biblical” – destruction wrought last week by Hurricane Helene is not a moment for lengthy “I-told-you-so’s.”
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Allison Danielsen | The manufacturing workforce in the US is in crisis
As we were preparing for the International Manufacturing Technology Show — IMTS 2024 — last month in Chicago, the largest gathering of the creators, builders and drivers of manufacturing in the Western Hemisphere, news came out that Apple CEO Tim Cook had made a startling statement about America’s workforce.
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Richard Hudson: Cracking down on open borders and standing up for your safety
The Biden-Harris Administration and the Democrats’ dangerous open border and soft-on-crime policies have made communities across America less safe. House Republicans recently took action to protect you, your family, and your tax dollars from paying the painful price of the Left’s radical, dangerous agenda.
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Richard Hudson: Three years since the horrific Abbey Gate attack
It’s been three years since the Harris-Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan resulted in the horrific Abbey Gate terrorist bombing – the deadliest attack on Americans since 2011. But we will never forget.
