By Kevin Roche The human toll of this epidemic has been enormous, but it hasn’t been the virus and the disease ensues from infection that has caused the most harm, it is the self-inflicted global wound of lockdowns and other…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Maybe I’m just too dumb to get it. All that science and data. Stupid me, thinking I could think for myself. At one point in my life, not that long ago, really, I thought…
By Donald van der Vaart Raleigh, NC – North Carolina continues to grapple with COVID-19. During the early days of the pandemic, the state’s strategy was clear. North Carolina, like other states, needed to restrict movements and interactions to reduce…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – “You don’t matter.” Three words. Eloquent in their simplicity, biting in their clarity. They come from a letter, posted on Facebook, from the N.C. Bar and Tavern Association. They come a day after the…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Agonizing. These lockdowns, mandates, and suppressions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Logically inconsistent, clumsy in their application, and impossible to enforce. We’ve become prisoners of this virus, without imminent hope of reprieve. Potential…
By Joseph Coletti Raleigh, NC – It is hard to know things. It’s harder to know how to know things. Harder still is knowing how to know the right things. In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper and much of the…
by John Trump Raleigh, NC – This coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. It has burrowed deep into our communities, our hospitals, our psyches. It won’t magically disappear, despite all the wishing. The hoping and the dreaming. We’re hurting. In the eye…
By Kevin Roche This is my question of the day, amidst all the gnashing of teeth around the rise in cases in certain states. The initial strategy was close everything down and tell people to stay at home so that…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – Conventional wisdom has it that progressives champion urbanity and conservatives disdain it. There’s some truth to that. Progressives are far more likely than conservatives to prefer walkable, high-density communities over auto-dependent, detached-dwelling neighborhoods. Urban…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – During the month of May, 38 states saw their unemployment rates drop as governments eased COVID-19 restrictions and allowed more businesses to open and individuals return to work. In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper…