Opinion
Users should pay for highways
As a fiscal conservative who thinks government is generally too large and taxes too high, I am grateful for the gas tax.
Opinion
Opinion
Awaiting a special delivery
She was standing in the open doorway of her small apartment, staring out through the soft, early morning rain that splatted against the leaves of a huge pecan tree.
Opinion
Dave Wells is exactly the right choice
Scotland County Schools took a little longer than it expected to replace Meredith Bounds as the system’s public information officer. It took a second call for applications, which added an extra few weeks, but Superintendent Takeda LeGrand and the Board of Education finally got their man.
Letters
History shows legalized slave owner in U.S. was a black man
Some interesting facts that do not fit the Democrat narrative of the evil white man being the only slave owners in America.
Opinion
Don’t forget our farmers
When God threw Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, He told them they would have to earn a living by the sweet of their brow from then on. Mankind has had to grow or raise its own food ever since.
Opinion
This rejection is only about gaslighting
Republican state senators voted last week not to confirm Dionne Delli-Gatti as secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality because they think she is insufficiently knowledgeable about something they called Gov. Roy Cooper’s “natural gas strategy” and she was “unfamiliar” with a stalled natural gas pipeline project.
Opinion
Active Energy must comply with the law
The recent Notice of Violation sent by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to Active Energy Renewable Power is simply the agency doing its job to uphold our laws, protecting the air we breathe and questioning Active Energy’s poor planning for not being prepared to do business in North Carolina. As a polluter, the company violated the law by making process and equipment changes to their Lumberton pellet mill without a permit or authorization. Some politicians cast blame at everything and everyone but the company responsible.
Opinion
One-party control = campus chaos
The School of Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill fostered North Carolina’s tradition of great newspapers, reporters and editors. Now it fosters a debate engulfing the school, the entire university and journalism itself.
Opinion
Equation for fuel pricing is complicated
When the Colonial Pipeline was hacked, supply and demand for fuel was moved off a consistent slow climb.
Opinion
Cutting corporate tax helps consumers
With negotiators for the North Carolina House and Senate confirming that they’ve agreed on the broad outlines of a state budget for next year, the prospect of ending the state’s 2.5% corporate income tax is one step closer to becoming reality. A phase-out is already in the Senate’s budget plan, and key House members have endorsed the idea.
Opinion
County needs to step up for its deputies
Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey insists that his deputies, investigators and detention center employees deserve a raise, especially when their salaries are compared with those in similar positions in other counties.
Letters
This kind of racket is getting way out of hand
Is it me, or are autos, trucks and motorcycles getting louder?