Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. From Sherry Keen of Raleigh: I’m from North Carolina, born and raised. I went to ...

Certain areas of our country, with each passing month, attempt to create new deviant groups of people. These are organized, legal attempts to make certain citizens 'outsiders,' a term coined in 1963 ...

He was always the first person in at work, polite, discreet and deadline-driven. His desk was always neat, and had a joyful picture of him and his wife. You could say, he was a model employee—until ...