Letters
Talkback: What online readers say about …
… A treasure to be polished: Ambitious plan laid out for Wil-Cox Bridge area Several years ago, when a team from the N.C. Chapter of ...
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Columnists
Tom Campbell: Three words politicians never say
Three words you almost never hear from politicians is “I was wrong.” I’m not one, but can admit that on the subject of Medicaid expansion ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, July 30, 2018 9:40 pm
Opinion
Media indispensable to democracy
From a Wall Street Journal column by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: … Liberals and conservatives alike should commit themselves to rhetorical disarmament. During the Cold ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 29, 2018 10:59 pm
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Signs of past times in downtown Salisbury
In looking for information in Post files, we sometimes stumble across interesting bits of history. I offer here photographic evidence to back up my sometimes ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 29, 2018 12:00 am
Columnists
John Hood: Labor shortage teaches policy lesson
RALEIGH — Hickory has a labor shortage. Given our state’s recent economic history, that claim may sound incredible. But it’s true. Not so long ago, ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, July 25, 2018 7:39 pm
Local
Taylor Miller: Lessons from one family’s opioid death
Second in a two-part series By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — As she did many nights, Amy Morris texted her 19-year-old daughter, Taylor Miller, before ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, July 23, 2018 12:10 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Everyone shopped downtown
Remember Casper’s Shoes? And Zimmerman’s? Thinking about all the development about to happen in downtown Salisbury made me think of what the downtown was like ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 22, 2018 12:10 am
Local
‘Is this Taylor Miller’s mother?’ Family opens up about 19-year-old’s overdose death
This is the first story in a two-part series. By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The message on White House stationery is brief. The president ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 22, 2018 12:10 am
Columnists
Ed Rogers: What’s next for Republicans after Trump shreds his credibility?
On Monday, I tweeted about the summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — and it seems to have hit a nerve ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9:03 pm
Guest columns
My Turn, Karen Bowyer: Renewal is last-ditch effort to save school district
To suggest that the Rowan-Salisbury Schools should celebrate being selected as North Carolina’s first “renewal” school district is a blatant attempt to hide the facts. ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, July 16, 2018 12:00 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Annapolis shooting shook us all
The shots that killed five people at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis last week rang out across newsrooms nationwide. Oh. My. Gosh. Has it come ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 1, 2018 12:32 am
Landis
Landis OKs budget with tax increase and vehicle fee
LANDIS — The Board of Aldermen has adopted a 2018-19 budget that some residents say will make it too expensive to live in Landis. “I ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Hope Over Heroin plans September rally for Rowan and Cabarrus
KANNAPOLIS – A rally coming up Sept. 7-8 is geared toward helping people fight the opioid crisis in Rowan and Cabarrus counties — be they users, recovering ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 12:00 am
Guest columns
My Turn, Bill Lowe: We keep digging debt hole deeper
It is generally accepted that our national debt is now in excess of $21 trillion, and set to increase by nearly a trillion dollars a ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, June 10, 2018 11:16 pm
Local
Keeper of the public purse: State Treasurer Folwell challenges the status quo
By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Dale Folwell can stun an audience with big figures. As North Carolina’s state treasurer, Folwell is responsible for managing and distributing ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Q&A with Dale Folwell: ‘There’s just a tendency to kick the can down the road’
By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Securing the future of the state’s pension and insurance programs could secure the future for other parts of state and local ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, June 10, 2018 12:00 am
Guest columns
David Whisenant: Don’t do it
By David Whisenant Special to the Salisbury Post The news this week that fashion designer Kate Spade and television personality Anthony Bourdain took their own ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, June 8, 2018 3:49 pm
Opinion
Excerpt: Many factors will shape midterm elections
From a Washington Post column by Ed Rogers about midterm elections: So will the Democrats, saddled with a bunch of left-wingers, stay silent and try ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 30, 2018 6:48 pm
Guest columns
My Turn, Nan Lund: The real cost of a $1,000 plane ticket
Tuesday, May 15, was a sad day for Salisbury. Watching the City Council spend the better part of an hour “discussing” a $1,060.60 expenditure for ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, May 28, 2018 12:00 am
Health
Nurse midwife joins Novant clinic in China Grove
CHINA GROVE — Residents of south Rowan and the China Grove area have a new face in town for women’s health care. Sharon Kay Varner, ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 27, 2018 12:05 am
Editorials
Editorial: Freedom dearly won
From President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 Memorial Day speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery: I have no illusions about what ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 27, 2018 12:00 am
Spirit of Rowan
Spirit: IDEA Center to spur entrepreneurship and growth
By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Countless communities have business incubators to help people start businesses. The Rowan IDEA Center is being designed to do more, says Addison Davis, project ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:37 am
Spirit of Rowan
Spirit of Rowan: Airport is county’s ‘gateway for business’
By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Rowan’s county airport is working to build a regional image. Rebranded in 2017 as Mid-Carolina Regional Airport, the enterprise is taking on a bigger ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:25 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: The antidote is community
Lock ’em up. Let ’em die. That’s what critics say when they read about addicts overdosing on painkillers or heroin and being revived with Narcan ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, May 19, 2018 11:22 pm
Columnists
Colin Campbell: Tallying the primary results
RALEIGH — With no statewide races and only 14 percent of voters bothering to participate, it’s hard to make sweeping pronouncements about what last week’s ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, May 14, 2018 8:43 pm
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Still hovering over my shoulder
My sister called a couple of weeks ago and mentioned that the lilacs were blooming around our parents’ house. Instantly I was back in the ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 13, 2018 12:00 am
Columnists
Dr. Michael Bitzer: A sign of things to come? Parsing 9th & 13th District primary results
The 9th Congressional District Republican contest lived up to the belief that it would be another competitive rematch between incumbent Robert Pittenger and the Rev. ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:00 am
Elections
Roundup: Turnout was low; more candidates to come
By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — With no presidential or gubernatorial race on the ballot, turnout for Tuesday’s primary was lower than usual — 11.27 ...