Opinions – Hoke County Edition

May 13, 2025

HILL: ‘Inflation is our friend!’

July 7, 2021 Frank Hill

Dan Aykroyd of “Saturday Night Live” had a memorable spoof of President Jimmy Carter’s anti-inflation speech in 1978, where he was ‘quoted’ as saying: “Inflation is our friend. In the year 2000, if current trends […]

BUDD: We must get North Carolina back to work

July 7, 2021 Tedd Budd

Last month, the National Federation of Independent Businesses reported that 46% of small businesses currently have unfilled job openings. Our country is still down 7.1 million jobs from our pre-lockdown boom, and 9.5 million jobs […]