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The ACLU defends religious freedom for everyone — including Christians
Opinion | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:18 PM |
By Katy Parker ACLU of North Carolina Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not review a lower court’s ruling that the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners violated the Constitution by opening more than three-quarters of ...Read More
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Riverkeeper: Saving Yadkin is investment for prosperity of our children
Opinion | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:05 AM |
By Dean Naujoks Yadkin Riverkeeper In addition to providing safe clean drinking water for future generations, Yadkin Riverkeeper is concerned about the tens of thousands of jobs North Carolina will lose over the next 50 years if the Federal Ener ...Read More
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Jen Jones: Concerns about Amendment One
Opinion | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:56 PM |
Jen Jones, director of communications for Equality North Carolina and an attorney, responds to a Feb. 17 oped piece by attorney Mary Blanton on the legal impact of a proposed state amendment to ban same-sex marriages. During our “Race to the Ball ...Read More
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Kent Bernhardt: Let us pray ... or not
Opinion | Monday, February 20, 2012 4:47 PM |
By Kent Bernhardt As if they don’t have enough problems in the form of budget difficulties, the high cost of central school offices, and general friction with the state, our county commissioners now have another bullseye on their backs. Taking d ...Read More
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My Turn: A lesson from the apostle Paul
Opinion | Monday, February 20, 2012 6:44 AM |
By William H. Battermann Prayer in the name of Jesus at the county commission meeting has become a lively issue in Rowan County. Many see the request to stop this practice from the American Civil Liberties Union as an attempt to infringe upon our fre ...Read More
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My Turn: Waging war against religion
Opinion | Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:42 PM |
By Donald Schumacher Well, it just had to happen. Some offended person or persons in our county had to complain to the ACLU, an organization of anti-Christian lawyers who have nothing better to do than attack good people of faith and their beliefs. T ...Read More
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Cook: Building for the times we live in
Opinion | Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:05 PM |
Salisbury must have been booming at the beginning of the 20th century. Two of the stateliest buildings downtown went up in that first decade. Made of Italian marble, the Rowan County Administrative Offices building on West Innes Street was origin ...Read More
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Presidents Day prelude: Test your knowledge of local lore
Opinion | Friday, February 17, 2012 4:12 PM |
(See answers at bottom)
1. How many sitting presidents have visited Salisbury? A. Three B. Five C. Seven 2. When President George Washington arrived in Salisbury on May 30, 1791, he was greeted by: A. A dozen young girls carrying bouquets of flowers. ...Read More
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The Optimistic Futurist: Removing bars to success
Opinion | Friday, February 17, 2012 4:07 PM |
I am often asked how I can be optimistic when I spend so much of my time studying problems facing society. The answer is that no matter how big or scary the problem, I can find someone, someplace, who has figured out a way to solve it in a manner t ...Read More
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My Turn: The joy of teaching
Opinion | Friday, February 17, 2012 8:30 PM |
By Kim Petty

I teach third grade, and there are 19 children who count on me every day to teach them literature and grammar and writing. (They also count on me to supply Band-Aids or dispense Jolly Ranchers occasionally). We spend a good part of ever ...Read More
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Sharon Randall: My brother Joe is a hero like no other
Opinion | Friday, February 17, 2012 8:32 PM |
By Sharon Randall

It’s interesting, isn’t it, what interests us? Of all the people I’ve written about, no one has sparked the curiosity of readers as much as my brother Joe. Go figure. A middle-aged, unemployed, high-school dropout ...Read More
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In response: Article gave flawed view on amendment
Opinion | Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:34 PM |
Salisbury attorney Mary R. Blanton responds to an article about opposition to the state’s proposed amendment relating to same-sex marriages: I am writing to express my disappointment in the Post for allowing what was in effect an editorial disguis ...Read More
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Cal Thomas; A deserved lesson in civility
Opinion | Thursday, February 16, 2012 6:42 PM |
By Cal Thomas When one writes about moral convictions, it’s probably a good idea to consistently live up to them. That way people can still disagree with your convictions, but they have a difficult time accusing you of hypocrisy. Last week at the ...Read More
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My Turn: Schools' performance is the real issue here
Opinion | Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:31 PM |
By Ken E. Austin
Having never written to the Salisbury Post for any reason whatsoever, I now feel compelled to weigh in on the issue of a new central office for the Rowan-Salisbury School System. Is there anyone out there who actually believes that a ...Read More
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Kathleen Parker: A star is born ... and dies
Opinion | Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:56 AM |
WASHINGTON — The heartbreak of Whitney Houston’s death does not seem to be primarily a story of drug or alcohol abuse, as it is currently unfolding. The so-called “teachable moment” about combining booze and drugs, it seems to me, misses the point ...Read More
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My Turn: Don't do it
Opinion | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 6:58 PM |
By David Whisenant

Every now and then I feel the need to write a long form note like this one. Sometimes it’s just for fun, or maybe to inform friends about upcoming events. That’s not the case with this note. This is something I feel o ...Read More
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Tom Campbell: Getting back to the future
Opinion | Monday, February 13, 2012 6:26 PM |
By Tom Campbell As candidates line up to file for public office there are two overarching questions each should be required to answer: What is your vision for the future and what is your plan to get us there? A community leader in Rocky Mount, al ...Read More
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Leonard Pitts: Hypocrisy and necessity
Opinion | Monday, February 13, 2012 6:31 PM |
By Leonard Pitts Jr. Tribune Media Services “One of the worries we have obviously in the next campaign is that there are so many of these so-called super PACs, these independent expenditures that are gonna be out there, there is gonna be just a l ...Read More
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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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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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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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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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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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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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