Tom McLaughlin

The current state of the Halifax County Courthouse renovation project is emblematic of our times: taxpaying citizens of the county are stuck with a plan that no one seems to like and no one is apparently able to change. How do these things happen? Pull up a chair and let’s stew a bit.

The powers-that-be who’ll determine the future of Mecklenburg County school facilities must be taking lessons from Congress: they’re brushing up against must-pass deadlines with what looks from afar to be nary a care in the world.

Stupid and cruel: Say hello to Donald Trump’s America.

Horrifying as the images are from Hurricane Harvey, we need to keep in mind that Texas’s and Louisiana’s miseries are only beginning

About a month and a half ago I heard from an old college buddy: “Hey man, we’ve gotta go catch the eclipse.”

Because everyday decency is so unexceptional, it’s all the more sickening to witness a breakdown of social order such as we saw this weekend in Charlottesville.

Things can get awfully complicated, awfully fast when the subject is community college dual enrollment and career and technical education programs— all fodder for The Sun’s front page lead story last week — because:

When you make it your business to write about politics, as I typically do in this space, it’s easy to lose sight of the plain fact that for many, the daily headlines have no bite. It’s all just a bunch of hullabaloo. Other subjects get people’s blood pressure up. Let’s take an example: pit bulls.