Here’s why the original neocon thinkers — people such as Irving Kristol, James Q. Wilson, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Daniel ...

The most powerful person in any North Carolina county is the sheriff, an elected position mandated by the state constitution.

When you see a plant growing, flowering and fruiting in a garden, field, forest or pot you’re only seeing a part and not the whole. Much of the plant exists below the ground in the soil in the form of ...

Under a mountainside that had slipped again and again, residents of Thistle Ridge faced a grim reality — unstable ground, blocked roads and no clear path forward.  For more than four years, ...

I want to address the financial issues involved with the decision by the Jackson County commissioners to leave the Fontana Regional Library System.  This past June citizens of Jackson County ...

The Immigration Act of 1990 was the last time significant changes were made to legal immigration and is considered outdated for today’s challenges. In 2013 a bipartisanship bill passed the Senate with ...

As Jackson County heads toward the March 3 primary election, voters are being asked to assess a governing record shaped by rising costs, cultural conflict, a steady expansion of county government and ...

I’m sorry to read that Tracy Fitzmaurice resigned as head of the Fontana Regional Library System, and I want to say something clearly in defense of Tracy. Tracy has given decades of steady, ...

Jackson, Swain and Transylvania counties — now unfolds against a backdrop of unresolved disaster recovery and rising voter ...

I recently sent this letter to North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein. I fear that the current deployment of ICE, CBP, a federalized National Guard, the FBI and the DEA is actually practice for the Trump ...

Graham County Sheriff Brad Hoxit has been suspended from office following allegations of abuse of power and misconduct ...

I wrote this letter to Congressman Chuck Edwards and thought it might be of interest to some others. First of all, let me say that I am writing you because I am appalled at the killing of another ...