The Sampson County Board of Commissioners and county staff deserve a lot of credit for this year’s budget preparation and the path that led to perhaps the most timely and least debated passage of a […]
Words still mean things. Well, I guess they still do. Lawyers spend hours and hours going over contracts and legal documents for their clients, making sure every word is correct. They know that a single […]
Dear Editor, I wonder if there was a food shortage in this country and peoples bellies were empty, if people crying animal rights would be the first ones in the woods with guns, bats, knives, […]
The Turkey Town Board is kicking blight enforcement up another notch, a move that should earn the kudos of residents who have urged their elected officials to do just that for months now. It’s nice […]
Whether North Carolina pays its public schoolteachers at a level close or equal to the national average is one of the most-debated issues in state politics. Alas, it doesn’t deserve to be. The problem isn’t […]
The dawn is heavy with the promise of another summer day patiently waiting to be born. In the stillness of this early hour, the sky to the east lightens behind billows of perfect clouds. The […]
Why are you reading this column? Make no mistake — I’m glad you are. I hope you are an avid reader of editorials, op-eds, and columns in newspapers, magazines, and online forums. But motivation matters. […]
I woke with a start! I had been dreaming. At least that’s what I thought I had been doing. Or was I still in a deep sleep wondering through an unfamiliar place? The room seemed […]
Fifty years ago in 1968, two men were assassinated while about the business of trying to convince the nation “that race has no place in American life and law.” It was in April of this […]
He’s often the man you call on when things go wrong — the occasional flat tire, the overheated engine, the busted water pipe, the snake in the back yard, the unbalanced checkbook, or, if you’re […]
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” – 1 Cor. 13:11 […]
In the long-running dispute between State School Superintendent Mark Johnson, a Republican elected in 2016, and the State Board of Education, which currently has a majority of Republican appointees, the North Carolina Supreme Court has […]
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