The rich are different from you and me — they can buy themselves instant presidential campaigns. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has elbowed himself into the Democratic nomination race solely on the basis of […]
Did you ever start laughing; and then you couldn’t stop? Well, I can remember one time while sitting in church as a teenager, I began laughing uncontrollably and inadvertently ended up making a spectacle of […]
We’ve been here before, but it didn’t get quite this far. The U.S. 421 rest area in southern Sampson County has been shut down, state transportation officials seeking a permanent closure of the 48-year-old facility. […]
February 2020 marks the 94th anniversary year of the inception of what was then called Negro History Week. Launched in February 1926, Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, wanted to use knowledge about […]
“It’s a good day.” I’ll bet you have never seen that sentence in a program bulletin at a funeral before. But there it was at the top of the order of service at the funeral […]
Vote. It’s that simple. This is a big election year, a road to 2020 that actually started with filing last year. The March 3 primary is the next stop, and that path to that primary […]
Mortified! That is the only word that comes to mind when my thoughts drift back to a time when I was a young college boy living a carefree life without end. During the spring of […]
North Carolina’s unemployment rate averaged 3.9 percent during 2019. For economists, that rate signifies “full employment” (the nation is at full employment, too, and our state’s rate is not significantly different from the nation’s). But […]
A pastor once told me about members of a congregation who were upset because attendance was down during the summer. They complained that other members were spending their weekends at their vacation homes at the […]
The idea that the only people vaping e-cigarettes are current smokers trying to quit is not true, especially in the last several years. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported at the […]
After a year of campaigning, the first votes are finally being cast in the 2020 presidential primaries. Democrats have a wide-open contest. Unfortunately, the combination of a chaotic and incoherent primary schedule and antiquated voting […]
Does anyone remember shorthand? Back in days before we became robotic adjuncts to our electronic devices, secretaries took notes in shorthand which they later converted to typewritten documents. I submit that the word “homeless” is […]
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