On Jan. 20, the United States confirmed its first case of the coronavirus. The nation’s political and media elite obsessed over Mitch McConnell’s just-announced resolution governing the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. On Jan. 23, […]
Does North Carolina lock up too many people? I’ve long thought so. I’ve advocated criminal-justice reforms that employ intensive parole and probation, restitution, and other alternatives to incarceration for some offenders who commit nonviolent crimes. […]
Have you ever been frightened at the thought of dying? I’m sure with the global pandemic of COVID-19 spreading to the four corners of the earth, and stay-at-home orders being issued by most of our […]
(I suppose we all could use a distraction right now. This old column from a few years back makes me smile. And if you knew my daddy, L.F. McPhail, you’ll smile, too.) One of the […]
Some of us have traveled in an automobile with young children who are active and not well-designed for sitting still in an automobile for more than a few minutes. Parents have heard their question, “Are […]
As painful as it is to live under North Carolina’s partial lockdown, just imagine how much worse it would be if the COVID-19 outbreak were happening before the advent of the Internet. The damage to […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […]
Countries have experienced economic depressions before, but not usually as a matter of choice. The nationwide coronavirus shutdowns over the past three weeks have ground parts of the country to a halt. We have probably […]
Cheers It’s important every day to find things to applaud within our community, and perhaps during the times we are currently living in it is even more imperative than ever. In Sampson County, that’s a […]
Have you ever been “in a pickle?” It is an English idiom that refers to someone who has ended up in a sticky situation. Although the expression’s colorful nature suggests that the predicaments are more […]
Over the past two weeks, Gov. Roy Cooper and local officials have imposed a regulatory regime of increasing severity on North Carolinians. Their stated goal is to slow the spread of COVID-19 so the number […]
I don’t have to tell you, but things have changed. And we don’t know how long the coronavirus will last. Hopefully, a few more weeks. But it may be months. And when it is over, […]
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