Editorials
Laurels: Keep acts of gratitude coming for workers
Laurels to our heroes, the health care workers who are living in an uncertain world with outcomes that are not yet clear. Whether they work ...
Laurels to our heroes, the health care workers who are living in an uncertain world with outcomes that are not yet clear. Whether they work ...
The degree to which the public is relying on the internet now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, shows more clearly than ever there’s a strong argument ...
Between rising COVID-19 case numbers and our national economic decline, it’s been hard for people of all persuasions, including optimists, to see the light at ...
Suffice to say, we’re living in a moment unlike any other in history. The spread of coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has altered ...
Laurel to the spirit of community, volunteerism and goodwill that find themselves trickling through Salisbury and Rowan County during the COVID-19 outbreak. It can be ...
Rowan County commissioners may soon face questions none of them expected just three to four weeks ago. Will they be able to take on debt ...
Salisbury and Rowan County aren’t going to “flatten the curve” very much if locals don’t take the advice of health care professionals and local, state ...
It should have come as a dose of reality last week when the Rowan County Health Department released the average age of people diagnosed here ...
While much of the public’s attention is rightly on the coronavirus, Salisbury and Rowan County cannot forget about the U.S. Census, which is ongoing. People ...
When it comes to releasing information about the coronavirus outbreak, Rowan County should emulate its southern neighbors. Both Cabarrus and Mecklenburg County have released data ...
Already, our community has learned valuable lessons about itself as the nation’s coronavirus crisis continues. It will continue to learn new lessons as well. At ...
Here’s a curious contrast: as some businesses are looking at or living a future that includes closing their doors or a reduced number of employees, ...
As people across America, Salisbury and Rowan County sit in their homes, hoping that our national crisis doesn’t last long, there’s a foreboding feeling that ...
Laurel to the tough work of public school educators, particularly what they’ve been faced with in recent days. With little notice, teachers and staff have ...
Some Rowan Countians see the rush to cancel and postpone events as an overreaction for something that has resulted in 23 confirmed or presumed positive ...
There’s room for improvement when, in a state with more than 10 million people, only a few dozen have been tested by public health officials ...
While some of its results may seem like dated news, a labor market survey of manufacturers conducted by the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance produced at ...
Salisbury and Rowan County residents should take common precautions and avoid overreaction to news about COVID-19, sometimes referred to generally as coronavirus. It’s also important ...
Compromise always seems tougher when debates are politicized and, as a result, polarizing. There’s not many better examples than immigration. In a national survey in ...
Lee Withers, China Grove’s former mayor, found out the hard way on Tuesday night that it’s somewhere between difficult and impossible to successfully challenge Republican ...
Rowan County on Tuesday had the opportunity to move boldly into the future by passing a $45 million bond referendum to build a much-needed new ...
Laurel to some good news: turnout during the early voting period was up, if only slightly, from 2016. A total of 7,239 people cast a ...
It wasn’t an especially surprising statement considering local politics at the time and the person who was making it — Craig Pierce, who’s made it ...
Laurel to the many people who have spoken in favor of and the Rowan County Board of Elections for making plans to discuss Sunday early ...
Let’s build a school Faith-area residents may want to adopt the phrase used last year by then-Salisbury Mayor Al Heggins in her advocacy for a ...
If Rowan-Cabarrus Community College President Carol Spalding and the late Carroll Overton were to have a conversation today about a bond referendum on the March ...
Facts matter — facts that reporters work to confirm before stories are published. It’s why Salisbury Post reporter Natalie Anderson spent hours last week working ...
Laurel to the news that EGGER Wood Products plans to begin operation in Linwood by the end of the year. The company has already hired ...
Pay attention to Martin Necas and Matt Duchene in particular on Monday, when the Carolina Hurricanes meet the…
A-10 teams will hit the court across five games on Monday’s college basketball schedule. That includes the Dayton…
The Charlotte Hornets (6-10), on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, play the Indiana Pacers (7-10). The…
Sun Belt teams will take the court in five games on Monday’s college basketball slate. That includes the…
There are four games on the college basketball schedule on Monday that feature AAC squads. That includes the…