Guest columns
Whitey Harwood’s From the Wood Shed: Does anybody really know what time it is?
“Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is” was a No. 7 song for Chicago in 1970, and it is still played quite a bit ...
Post Opinion, Author at Salisbury Post
Guest columns
Kenneth L. Hardin: Black parents still need to give police survival talk
Last week, I read about a Tennessee school resource officer dragging a teenage Black kid by his hair down a set of high school bleachers. ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, October 2, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Sharon Randall: Queen for a day
Every woman, at least once in her life, ought to be Queen for a Day. My sister Bobbie waited 80 years for her turn. It ...
by Post Opinion, Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
DG Martin: North Carolina’s connections to earlier Queen Elizabeth, King Charles
We watched the great and solemn events in Britain but heard not a mention of North Carolina’s important connections to the royal family, to Elizabeth ...
by Post Opinion, Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Kenneth L. Hardin: I’ve earned this tired old man rant
I’m getting close to the six decades mark and I accept that I have more years behind me than in front. I don’t waste precious ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 25, 2022 12:00 am
Clyde
Clyde: They are few and far between
“Tis the song, the sigh of the weary: Hard times come again no more” written by Stephen Foster in 1855, 10 years before the war. ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 25, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
My Turn, Richard Nash Creel: Bailout for student loans will pile more debt on US
Bailout for student loans? I recently read an article in the Post about this, and had previously seen Ada Fisher’s criticism of the idea. There clearly ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 25, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Whitey Harwood’s From the Wood Shed: It’s all in the movies
Here goes a quote from Aphra Behn: “The perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, in a faithful friend ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 25, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Sharon Randall: The family reserve
Tomorrow, Lord willing (as my grandad would say) and if the creek don’t rise (as my grandmother would add) I will fly all day to ...
by Post Opinion, Thursday, September 22, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
DG Martin: North Carolina and Alaska connections
Does Alaska have a political message for North Carolina? Not a chance, you say. It’s too far away to have any connection to us. But ...
by Post Opinion, Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
My Turn, Rodney Cress: Flag rejection is shameful
To those unpatriotic committee members of the Bell Tower Park who voted not to display an American flag at the new Blanche and Julian Robertson ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Larry Efird: It’s all about the queue — and the queen
“When a man grows tired of London, he is tired of life…” — Samuel Johnson Last May, a group of friends with whom I attended ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Kenneth L. Hardin: An offer of glue for city’s gun violence crisis
I’m an animal lover, so I hesitate to beat a dead horse on the crime and gun violence crisis in this little historic slice of ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:00 am
Brincefield Cartoons
Mook’s Place: Sticker shock
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
My Turn, Roger Barbee: Nothing good can come from ‘grilling’ of general
“Former President Donald Trump’s allies in Congress are planning to use congressional investigations to put the spotlight on one of his most prominent critics — ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 18, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Sharon Randall: True vision
What’s your earliest memory, the first thing you recall seeing and have never forgotten? I was a baby, crying in my crib, all alone in ...
by Post Opinion, Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:00 am
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Ada Fisher: Long lived the queen
When Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary from the House of Windsor, died on Sept. 8, 2022 at the age of 96 after a successful ...
by Post Opinion, Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:00 am
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Rosemary Haskell: Queen’s gift to her people was modeling the nation’s best self
By Rosemary Haskell The death of Queen Elizabeth II encourages me to consider the interesting topic of Great Britain, a country I left more than ...
by Post Opinion, Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Alex Jones: Two visions for North Carolina
An archetype of North Carolina’s economic lifeblood has contained, at various points, the following scenes: the rustic horror of a plantation slave labor camp; the ...
by Post Opinion, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
DG Martin: Can’t stop UNC’s move to Raleigh
Too late. It has already been done. The Spangler building that served as headquarters of the UNC system is dark and empty for the first ...
by Post Opinion, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Kenneth L. Hardin: Questionable expertise not needed on gun violence
The gun violence that has engulfed this City for decades brings out the worst in people. I’m not only referring to those who create deadly ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 11, 2022 12:00 am
Opinion
Tom Nelson: The other September day of infamy
Most adults in this country who are alive today remember Sept. 11, 2001. No one alive today remembers Sept. 16, 1920. It is the other ...
by Post Opinion, Sunday, September 11, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Sharon Randall: Keeping connected
Of all the emails I read today, one made me especially glad for electronic communication. I know what you may be thinking: An email is ...
by Post Opinion, Thursday, September 8, 2022 12:00 am
Guest columns
Larry Efird: Off to school — and to the world
I recently helped our daughter move to Washington, D.C., to embark on a new journey in her life. Even though she’s a grown woman, I still ...
by Post Opinion, Tuesday, September 6, 2022 12:00 am
Clyde
Clyde: Keep a cardboard box or two around
A good cardboard box is hard to find. The kind just right to put a chicken or a guinea hen in. You can poke holes ...