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My Turn: Anger won't make world a better place
Opinion | Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:22 PM |
My name is Rev. Brad Cunningham. I am the pastor of Liberty United Methodist Church, the church whose bleachers were recently stolen. It is sad that the sacredness of our church’s property has been violated, but this is the second time the chur ...Read More
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Toll roads raise some bumpy issues
Opinion | Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:53 PM |
By Scott Mooneyham Capitol Press Association RALEIGH — State transportation officials should just forget about improving Interstate 95 while going ahead with their tolling scheme on the highway. Why? Because if their tolling plan is put in place ...Read More
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Williams column; The garden in the back yard
News | Monday, February 13, 2012 6:20 AM |
It is not an uncommon thing to see small tilled gardens adjoining homes in the country. I have also seen abbreviated plantings within a city’s limits. My parents were of the age to have remembered the “Victory Gardens” of World War II (long before ...Read More
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Verner: If end is here, this Bud's for you
Opinion | Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:08 AM |
I’ve finally figured out the real purpose of the ancient pyramids. They were designed to serve as doomsday bunkers where the pharoahs, kings and chieftains could take refuge when the apocalypse arrived. When Khufu built the Great Pyramid, he wa ...Read More
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Barb Sorel: Historic preservation gives much to celebrate
Opinion | Friday, February 10, 2012 7:23 PM |
By Barb Sorel Special to the Salisbury Post April 12, 1972 … a very important date in Salisbury’s history. On this day, a group of concerned and passionate citizens held their charter meeting to form an organization that would forever ch ...Read More
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McCullough column: Teacher’s music will play on through his students
News | Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:19 AM |
Some people may know Tom Stubbins as a music teacher. Others know him as a colleague, neighbor or friend. I came to know Tom as a colleague in 2005, when he was hired as an elementary music teacher for the Rowan-Salisbury Schools. We were colleagues ...Read More
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Bernhardt column: The Stage and I
Lifestyle | Friday, February 10, 2012 5:39 PM |
It was the spring of ’85, and as a Piedmont Players Board member, I had been asked to attend an arts workshop here in town. As part of a small group session, a few of us were asked to come up with an answer to the question “Why do we part ...Read More
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The Optimistic Futurist: Algae can help fuel reduction in oil dependency
Opinion | Friday, February 10, 2012 7:38 PM |
By Francis Koster www.TheOptimisticFuturist.org The United States imports roughly 31/2 billion barrels of oil per year, and in return about $350 billion U.S. dollars go out of our country every year. This comes to about $1,200 per citizen per year. Y ...Read More
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Sharon Randall: Getting older, if not wiser
Opinion | Friday, February 10, 2012 7:59 PM |
I’m not sure how it happened. It’s not like we planned it. Between my husband and me, our collective five children and their significant others, most of the birthdays in our immediate family fall within four short weeks, January to Februa ...Read More
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Bush and Obama avoided economic dodo-ism
Opinion | Friday, February 10, 2012 8:05 PM |
By David Post Forty years ago, I “won” what became my family’s first DoDo of the Year award. Instead of calling me an unmitigated idiot, my father called me a dodo (pronounced “doe-doe”) after the now extinct birds famou ...Read More
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Bonnie Erbe: Race for the Cure? Really?
Opinion | Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:10 PM |
You must hand it to executives of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, who deserve Olympic gold for turning 180 degrees in record time. By now, you know they reversed a pledged ban on any more money for Planned Parenthood to support breast ...Read More
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Drop in dropout rate is good news
Opinion | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:24 PM |
Community gains as more students stay in school Dr. Ron Turbyfill, board chair of Communities in Schools of Rowan County, comments on the improvement in the dropout rate: Many facts and figures are reported daily by the press, but few are more im ...Read More
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My Turn: Mandate violates beliefs
Opinion | Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:27 PM |
By John Brincefield I have never been moved to write a letter to the editor or to publicly state my opinion on political matters. Like most Americans, I generally feel that it doesn’t much matter what I think. Politicians are going to do or say wh ...Read More
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Cal Thomas: Preaching 'social gospel'
Opinion | Monday, February 06, 2012 7:12 PM |
By Cal Thomas For 60 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a Higher Authority. Last Thursday, President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement ...Read More
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My Turn: It's a dangerous world out there
Opinion | Sunday, February 05, 2012 1:30 PM |
By Monte Elliott
When we get out of bed in the morning we’re taking a big risk; a lot of things could happen before we crawl back into bed at night. Indeed, thousands of people who got out of bed this morning won’t go back to bed tonight. ...Read More
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Scott Mooneyham: Enough with the whining
Opinion | Sunday, February 05, 2012 1:26 PM |
By Scott Mooneyham Capitol Press Association RALEIGH — It’s a funny thing when you try to reverse 30 or 40 years of public policy in a single year. Some people don’t like it. So, they show up and unfurl banners in protest. They send out nasty e ...Read More
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McCullough column: Quilting says love in every stitch
News | Monday, February 06, 2012 1:46 PM |
Virgie Dean loves to talk and she loves to make quilts. She does both things very well. Born in 1919 on Powlas Road, in Cleveland, North Carolina, Virgie’s family moved to Mountain Road, also in Cleveland, when she was four. At the age of thir ...Read More
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The Optimistic Futurist: 'Farm to fork' saves energy and jobs
Opinion | Friday, February 03, 2012 7:35 PM |
By Francis Koster

Our food supply is enormously dependent on energy for pesticides, fertilizer, processing, packaging and transportation. And in a rapidly growing world, this dependency will be a challenge. I want you to mentally add 30 years to you ...Read More
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Kathleen Parker: Komen, Catholics feel intimidation
Opinion | Friday, February 03, 2012 5:32 PM |
WASHINGTON — Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman’s right to contraception or abortion. The more compelling questions concern a perso ...Read More
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Mike Cline: Memories of PPT
Lifestyle | Friday, February 03, 2012 4:47 PM |
Editor’s Note: Piedmont Players is gearing up for their 50th anniversary. The 50th Anniversary Gala will be held Saturday, March 3 at the Meroney, with a reception silent auction and show, as well as an after-show party on the Norvell stage. Ti ...Read More
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Leonard Pitts: Don Cornelius' love, peace ... and soul
Opinion | Friday, February 03, 2012 5:13 PM |
This was for us. And that was a new thing, so we gathered faithfully to the television as that hard-working cartoon engine chugged across the screen, rainbow smoke pouring from its stack, the announcer calling us to order once upon a Saturday. This ...Read More
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Doering column: Kitchen capers
Lifestyle | Friday, February 03, 2012 3:11 PM |
Last year was not kind to me. My arthritis became worse, my back blew for the third time, and no doctor can fix it. Worst of all, I lost my 63-year- old sister Lynne on November 25 when she died of a heart attack. I still grieve for her so much. Th ...Read More
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Sharon Randall: Taking cold comfort
Opinion | Friday, February 03, 2012 8:05 PM |
By Sharon Randall
The flight to Las Vegas, where I live, from California, where I’d been visiting my kids, sounded like a tuberculosis ward. Seriously? Who goes to Sin City when they’re sick? Don’t they know you’re supposed to ...Read More
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Tom Campbell: A tablet for every student
Opinion | Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:20 PM |
The need for education reform grows more obvious daily. We claim to have learned that if we keep doing what we’re doing, we are going to keep getting what we are getting, but our talk about providing a world-class education to all students is unsub ...Read More
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McFeatters: Newt out of his era in 2012
Opinion | Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:05 PM |
Reporters covering the Republican presidential campaign note that Mitt Romney’s every move is scripted and that Newt Gingrich’s top aides frequently don’t know where he is. Early in his campaign, Gingrich abruptly took off on a luxu ...Read More
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Leonard Pitts: Picture makes a point
Opinion | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:45 PM |
By Leonard Pitts A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, we have only about 550 with which to appraise a picture that has raised eyebrows across the country: In it, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is seen wagging her finger i ...Read More
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Williams column: Going beyond directions got a little out of hand

News | Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:48 AM |
By Mack Williams For the Salisbury Post The other day, I was walking past the toy section of a local department store and spotted a toy that brought back some good memories of when I was a child: Mr. Potato Head. Sometimes, children take a more liter ...Read More
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My Turn: Media is unfair to Ron Paul
Opinion | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:57 PM |
By Victor Farrah Why is Congressman Ron Paul constantly downgraded by the media? Probably because of his comments about our disaster of a Congress and its wasteful spending on foreign aid. They are borrowing money and giving it to many countries ...Read More
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Kathleen Parker: Is Romney 'too perfect'?
Opinion | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:58 PM |
By Kathleen Parker WASHINGTON — When a friend was writing a novel, he was concerned that his protagonist was too perfect. People can’t identify with perfection, he said. For the character to be sympathetic, he needs to have a flaw. He needs an i ...Read More
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My Turn: Demonizing others doesn't solve anything
Opinion | Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:53 PM |
By Jack Burke

When Congresswoman Gabby Giffords tendered her resignation from the House Wednesday afternoon, she was greeted with applause, hugs and as one reporter put it, “There wasn’t a dry eye in the House.” Speaker Boehner hug ...Read More
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David Post: Investment tax rates can be tricky stuff
Opinion | Monday, January 30, 2012 5:26 PM |
Remember that entertainer who puts a sponge ball under one of three cups? You watch closely as he moves them around. He stops, picks up the cup with the ball under it, and you’re proud for not having been tricked. He does it again, but this time h ...Read More
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Freeze column: Another shot at online dating
News | Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:41 PM |
By David Freeze For the Salisbury Post A few weeks back, I had an idea to do a column on my own experience with online dating after hearing that as many as 20 percent of new marriages have their origin on the Internet. My few attempts at meeting the ...Read More
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Remembering Rose: Salisbury characters through the years
News | Monday, January 30, 2012 7:09 AM |
Editor’s note:This story by the late Rose Post was first published April 5, 2003. Roakes Grocery came down the other day, attacked by bulldozers and the march to the future — and I deny that I cried. Must have been something wrong with my ...Read More
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Marsh column: Thank you for sharing the road
Health | Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:32 AM |
It is so exciting to see a community that is so active. More and more I see people walking, running and cycling throughout Rowan County. Way to go! An active lifestyle is important for a healthy mind, spirit and body, and if running, walking and cycl ...Read More
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Edward Norvell: Downtown important to city's vitality
Opinion | Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:36 PM |
Others have done a great job explaining why locating the central school office downtown makes good economic sense. I want to answer the basic question, why downtown? I am one of those who are passionate about downtown Salisbury. For the last 35 y ...Read More
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