Op-Ed
Wakefield Disease: A state of mind
Wakefield disease is not a medical disease. It is an attitude, a state of mind.
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Go-slow reopening may be costly
Over the first two months of the coronavirus crisis, our labor-market cratered. The number of employed North Carolinians dropped by 820,000, or 17%. Only 56.3% of working-aged residents were either employed or actively looking for jobs. That’s the lowest rate of labor force participation in modern times.
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We need to make more of our own drugs
A country learns about itself in a crisis, and one revelation in the coronavirus emergency is that we can’t make our own penicillin.
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The Real World vs. La La Land
Imagine you were born in 1900.
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Hard knocks driver’s education
Do you remember learning how to drive?
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Memorial Day & Mr. Paul
This is Memorial Day weekend. Usually it’s a time for heading the beach or lake for the unofficial start of summer. But this year is different. The coronavirus has changed many plans for the holiday weekend, although the beaches seem to be about as crowded as ever. But it’s also a good time to remember what the holiday is really about. And to thank a veteran. And Memorial Day reminds me of one my favorite veterans, Mr. Paul Holland.
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Class of 2020 can help shape the world
Now, as we begin to reopen North Carolina, I hope we don’t rush back into “the business as usual” mindset and negate the many lessons that we should have learned over the past several weeks.
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New York’s coronavirus story
New York is the greatest city in the world. It also is uniquely suited to the spread of the coronavirus.
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A new twist … on cereal
We live in a world of perpetual change. They call it progress. However, I refer to it as a continued annoyance. I am a creature of habit. I like things just the way they are and abhor doing things differently.
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Crisis may drive turn to suburbs
A decade ago, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, business analysts and policymakers thought they saw a turn toward a new urbanism. Downtown lofts and dense developments were the vogue. There was an uptick in transit use. Old-style suburbs and market-bubble exurbs were supposedly yesterday’s news.
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With response climbing, time to keep pushing
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: The time to be counted is now. Sampson County has responded. In the two weeks since we used this space to urge participation in the 2020 […]
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Missing Ms. Lea
“I had hoped all of this would bring us all together.” It was a sad statement in the midst of a sad situation. Especially coming from a ninety-two year old lady in an assisted living […]