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Alan K. Menius: A letter to senators on cabinet nominations

By Alan K. Menius Dear Senators Tillis (N.C.), Collins (Maine), Murkowski (Alaska), Cassidy (La.), Ernst (Iowa), Young (Ind.), ...

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My Turn: Travis Allen: The real heroes of Hurricane Helene

By Travis Allen There is one on every corner. Well, at least it seems that way, doesn’t it? ...

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Dear Neighbor: Kim Porter: Stepping into the quicksand

By Kim Porter Dear Neighbor, Many years ago I entered college with little or no specific thought as ...

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Elisabeth Strillacci: Favorite things and silly movies

When someone asked me yesterday about my favorite color, I suddenly felt like a character in Monty Python ...

Kent Bernhardt

Kent Bernhardt: Egg-splain something to me

By Kent Bernhardt My favorite food is getting skewered in the media, and I can no longer hold ...

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John Hood: To make homes more affordable, build!

By John Hood In places where the regulatory climate makes it easier to build new homes, it’s easier ...

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Letter to the editor: Will newspapers survive?

What better place place is there to ask this question than in a newspaper like this one? I ...

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Dear Neighbor: Kim Porter: Am I just a number?

By Kim Porter Dear Neighbor, I took a humanities class my freshman year in college.  It was a ...

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My Turn: Carol Pomeroy: Immigration concerns

By Carol Pomeroy I absolutely agree that there needs to be immigration reform, but certainly not in the ...

My Turn

My Turn: Michelle Strong: Turning together

By Michelle Strong Since the heart of what EYES (Embrace Your Elephant Scriptually) Journey does is conversations, I ...

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Gene Nichol: The Fallen North Carolina Supreme Court

By Gene Nichol The dictionary describes “fallen” as “having dropped or come down from a higher place, from ...

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Tom Campbell: Why stop at 60,000?

By Tom Campbell Jefferson Griffin’s inability to accept the outcome of the Supreme Court election knows no limits. ...

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Joshua Peters: To honor his conservative judicial philosophy, Griffin should concede

By Joshua Peters I voted for Judge Jefferson Griffin, but Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs won, and now ...

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Jon Guze: What really divides us as Americans?

By Jon Guze I’ve been trying for some time to explain what appears to be a paradox. On ...

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Elisabeth Strillacci: Put that phone down, for God’s sake

Though this holiday season was not as spirited, at least for me, as in year’s past, it still ...

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the editor: How did she do it?

Mayor Alexander was an amazing lady. I don’t know how she did it all. The things that stand ...

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Sailor Jones: Opposition to Griffin’s “meritless” election lawsuit is growing. Is the NC Supreme Court listening?

By Sailor Jones If you’ve traveled through North Carolina lately, you may have spotted billboards from the capital ...

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Celia Rivenbark: Welcome to the Gulf of America

By Celia Rivenbark President-elect Donald Jermaine Trump today announced plans to change the name of the Gulf of ...

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Letter: Questions for the Trump Administration

As Donald J. Trump prepares to take office, many Americans are eager to see how his administration will ...

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: On Salisbury icons

I ran into David Whisenant bringing some more of his books, “Chasing the Story” to South Main Book ...

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Renee Scheidt: Unanswered questions

By Renee Scheidt The recent terrorist attack in New Orleans was of special interest to me since that ...

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Your Neighbor: Pam Bloom: Our right to differ

By Pam Bloom Dear Neighbor, Elections do have consequences. Pleased or not with the results, you might agree ...

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Pardon my sigh of relief

By Kent Bernhardt I love the holiday season, but I have to confess I’m always a little relieved ...

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the editor — Wake up NC

Now that the NCSC has stayed the certification of Justice Rigg’s re-election, I have just one question for ...

My Turn

My Turn: RIP to the rule of law

By Alan Menius Today, Jan. 6, 2025, I am sitting down at the keyboard with a heavy heart ...

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Tom Campbell: What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

By Tom Campbell As Christmas approached, the never-ending 2024 “short session” of our General Assembly passed a resolution ...

Letters

A deeply ironic tragedy

Donald Trump’s inauguration, arriving on the heels of Jimmy Carter’s death, is a deeply ironic tragedy. Carter embodied ...

Letters

Letter to the editor: A great public servant

Salisbury and North Carolina lost a great public servant in the passing of Mayor Karen Alexander. She loved ...

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