After a Nor’easter last November, a WECT-TV reporter went to see how the storm had affected Topsail Island, a long barrier island between Morehead City and Wilmington that is especially susceptible to beach erosion. On […]
In addition to a number of telephone calls and face-to-face encounters where folks have given me pointed, yet helpful tips on how to do my job, I have, over the past few years, received in […]
I have been stuck inside recovering from a little health setback recently and while sedentary at home, I watched a lot of television. I am most definitely not a connoisseur of movies or television in […]
Military bases are a vital part of life in eastern North Carolina. The sound of Freedom is not only overhead regularly, but the bases are staffed with our friends, neighbors and family members. The military […]
America, a nation of time-saving fanatics. American, a nation of time-wasting freaks. In the days of old, consumers visited the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. They chatted, gossiped, and shared community news. Timeworn traditions […]
We feared the worst — and weren’t pleased, if the worst did occur, it would have been on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a celebration of the icon who used peaceful protest to make this […]
Though often skeptical about the benefits of government intervention, I am by nature an optimistic person. Indeed, I consider my skepticism and optimism to be two sides of the same coin. Experience and evidence have […]
On Jan. 27, the world will observe the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hitler’s largest death camp. A key question facing historians is how could an […]
Scotland Memorial Hospital — and all regional hospitals — need your blood. Though not experiencing a drastic shortage, as the hospital sometimes does, the call to donate is a means of preventing a problem before […]
I am writing to thank Laurinburg residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Because of the generosity of donors in Laurinburg and across the United States, […]
”It is not that they were racists. Maybe we could forgive them for that. But they were terrorists, and that is something we should not overlook or forget.” My friend was chiding me for expressing […]
Legislators returned briefly to Raleigh this week, accomplished a bit of house-cleaning, but were unable again to do the hard work of settling the budget impasse, leaving us right where we have been for months, […]
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