Local
9/11 20th anniversary: Breaking news on Sept. 11
Odd, isn’t it, how a moment 20 years ago can feel centuries old — and at the same time seem like yesterday? The morning of ...
Elizabeth Cook, Author at Salisbury Post
Local
NC poet laureate will speak during historical marker celebration, talks about life, race
By Elizabeth Cook For the Salisbury Post The time of political politeness has come and gone, says Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s poet laureate. “It’s ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, July 29, 2021 12:05 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Beloved dialogue brings races together
Their interests ran the gamut —criminal justice, education, housing, jobs, mental health. But one factor united people of different races and faiths who recently gathered ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, March 28, 2021 12:00 am
Columnists
My Turn, Elizabeth Cook: Fisher’s advice golden, example priceless
By Elizabeth Cook When Paul Fisher asked for a few minutes of your time, something important was brewing. That’s the way it was during my ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, November 8, 2020 12:00 am
Books
Love can only conquer so much pain
“Holding on to Nothing,” by Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, Blair Publishing, 257 pages, $25.95. By Elizabeth Cook For the Salisbury Post The characters in Elizabeth Shelburne’s ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:00 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Wineka ready to set out on a new path
By Elizabeth Cook For the Salisbury Post He came to town a stranger — a quiet, lanky 20-something from Pennsylvania who followed his college girlfriend ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:10 am
Local
‘No one woke up one day wanting this life’: Syringe exchange program one strategy to abate opioid epidemic
By Elizabeth Cook For the Salisbury Post KANNAPOLIS — Sticky notes cover a bulletin board at the Cabarrus Health Alliance, sharing reactions from users of ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, September 1, 2019 12:02 am
News
Correction
Rowan County emergency crews treated 22 people for drug overdoses in 25 days, starting July 15. The separate Post Overdose Response Team or PORT has ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, August 13, 2019 12:00 am
Crime
Special response team follows up on overdoses
SALISBURY — Since the Post Overdose Response Team became active less than a month ago, Rowan County emergency crews have treated 22 people for drug ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:01 am
News
Spirit: West Rowan’s Jimmy Greene fights for his team, community
By Elizabeth Cook For the Salisbury Post By day, 48-year-old Jimmy Greene is a partner at Fisher-Greene Insurance, helping clients and building relationships. But in ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, April 1, 2019 12:00 am
Books
Book review: ‘Maid’ tells what it’s like to be the working poor
“Maid,” by Stephanie Land. Hachette Books. 270 pages. $27. By Elizabeth Cook For the Salisbury Post “Maid,” Stephanie Land’s memoir from her days of scrubbing ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, March 24, 2019 12:00 am
Local
2018’s top news: Schools renewal and consolidation, Erica Parsons prosecution top the list
SALISBURY — Education affects the lives of some 19,000 Rowan County public school students — plus their families — and it dominated Salisbury Post headlines ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, January 1, 2019 12:00 am
Guest columns
My Turn, Ella Jones: Save our school
My name is Ella Jones, and I am a seventh- grader at North Rowan Middle School. I have attended both North Rowan Elementary and Middle ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:05 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Christmas is music to our ears
It started with the Hallmark movies. No, to be honest, the yearning for Christmas this year took hold around Halloween for some of us. Politics ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, December 9, 2018 2:19 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Our personal president
George H.W. Bush was already popular in Rowan County before he landed in Faith for its famous Fourth of July celebration in 1992. But that ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 12:31 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Start wrapping up another year
You have your Christmas traditions. In the Post newsroom, we have our end-of-the-year traditions. Instead of wrapping gifts, we’re wrapping up the year with stories ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, December 2, 2018 12:20 am
Education
Meetings about school consolidation start Tuesday
SALISBURY — Rowan County residents will have six opportunities in the coming weeks to learn more about a school closing and consolidation proposal that would ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, December 2, 2018 12:00 am
Education
Why I am thankful …
LANDIS — Stacey Carver, who teaches at Corriher-Lipe Middle School, asked her AIG students to write essays on thankfulness. Here are excerpts: … for my ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, November 22, 2018 12:00 am
Local
David Cook: ‘What would I be today?’
SALISBURY — Some veterans’ stories are tales of battle, courage and sacrifice. Jerry David Cook talks instead of what he gained by serving in the ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, November 22, 2018 12:00 am
Editorials
Editorial: Help a child this Christmas
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” —Matthew 25:40, ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:37 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: Thanks for sharing the journey
The first thing on the gratitude list this Thanksgiving is forgiveness. Put it right up there with respect. Someone dropped by the office last week ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, November 18, 2018 12:44 am
Editorials
Other Voices: Another attack on gerrymandering
Well of course it’s blatant and outrageous gerrymandering, with state and federal legislative districts deliberately drawn to give one party overwhelming advantage over the other. ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:54 am
Columnists
Al Hunt: In the White House, experience really does count
I covered a lot of campaigns this year and none was more exciting than Beto O’Rourke’s race for a U.S. senate seat in Texas. Richard Ojeda, ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 10:53 pm
Columnists
Rob Schofield: Beware of special session
The 2018 election may be in the rear view mirror, but for better or worse, the next battle over the state’s future will commence very ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:09 am
Guest columns
James Burns: A doughboy who did his bit in the war
I’ve waited 40 years to write this article. For it was in 1978 when I first came across my Uncle Carroll Hosbrook’s World War I ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, November 11, 2018 12:57 am
Local
Voter blows whistle on numbered ballots
He was right on Election Day, but not on absentees SALISBURY — Bill Reynolds says his rights have been violated. As he prepared to ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, November 11, 2018 12:00 am
Columnists
Elizabeth Cook: 40 years and a revolution ago
A lot has happened in Salisbury over the past 40 years, the span of my career at the Post. Rufus Honeycutt was chairman of the ...
by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:50 pm
Guest columns
My Turn, Dr. David Nelson: Navigating not-so-friendly skies
The mid term elections are behind us. Thank God. It certainly is a relief to know we can make a safer approach and landing now ...