O-pinion

Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee did the right thing when he orderd an audit of the city's travel and expense account outlays. Few abu...

Faced with a directive from the General Assembly to redirect $15 million from university research and policy centers  across the state, the ...

Gov. Pat McCrory is showing, again, who's in charge in Raleigh. And it's not Pat McCrory. After repeatedly floating trial balloons...

You might have heard: It's going to be cold in Charlotte. It's what people are talking about in our office and yours. The forec...

It's freezing outside. There's ice on your neighborhood's roads. There's no school. You can work from home - or maybe...

An interesting chart is making the rounds. It shows how Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools would have performed on the state's A-F grades if ...

Last week, the Observer's Eric Frazier wrote an open letter to N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger. Frazier urged Berger, arguably the most ...

What are we to make of the dismissal of the domestic violence charge against Carolina Panthers player Greg Hardy? Some people seem to b...

The Republican "Solid South" is on the verge of crumbling, and that's driving voter suppression laws, the Rev. William Barbe...