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Elizabeth Cook: Homer would have been proud

I’m turning into Homer Lucas. For those who have not been around here long, Homer was a longtime reporter for the Salisbury Post. He covered ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Tourism vs. education

N.C. Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford deserve kudos for sponsoring a bill that would give Rowan-Salisbury Schools  more flexibility in setting their calendar each ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

One step forward on use of mall …

Rowan County’s plan to move government offices into West End Plaza took a logical step forward Tuesday when the Salisbury Planning Board unanimously approved a ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:00 am

Opinion

Teachers: ‘We will not let you fail’

Educators top the list of heroes to remember during Black History Month By Jeffrey Faulkner EducationNC I still hear the voice of my 8th grade teacher ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Lessons in Hunger 101

Young people scrimping to make ends meet at college have been around for a long time. College students are at least partially responsible for the ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Beware of skimmers

A type of scam that steals information at ATMs and gas pumps has been proliferating in the Charlotte area — skimming. A skimmer device surreptitiously ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Get right with Granite Quarry addresses

Residents of Granite Quarry deserve to have accurate addresses — addresses based on the reality of where they live, not the U.S. Postal Service’s mindset. ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:00 am

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: ‘Come join us,’ says veteran Hand

David Hand is commander of AMVETS Post 845 in Rockwell and president of the Rowan County Veterans Council, and he has a message for young ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, February 22, 2015 12:10 am

Editorials

Welcome, city manager

Experience. Vision. Passion. Gets things done. Those are some of the words that have come up related to the person Salisbury City Council hired last ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, February 22, 2015 12:00 am

Spirit of Rowan

Welcome to the Spirit of Rowan

Ask anyone who has made Rowan County home — this community has its own distinct character. Situated between the Charlotte and Triad metro areas, Rowan has a spirit ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, February 20, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Measure twice, reroof once?

We don’t know much about how county government works. But the Rowan County Board of Commissioners’ move to halt work on West End Plaza until ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Chance of snow days

Calling off today’s classes was an easy decision for school superintendents in the region. Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency and everyone braced ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:00 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Dean Smith and the Carolina way

Dean Smith was not only a great basketball coach and humanitarian; he was a very gracious man. I found that out firsthand in 2000. Then president ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, February 15, 2015 12:10 am

Editorials

Putting grades into perspective

Just a few more words on school performance grades the state issued last week. Learning that Rowan-Salisbury schools made four Bs, 15 Cs, 14 Ds ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Nowhere to go but up on school performance grades

The school performance grades released by the state Department of Public Instruction last week reinforced a message Superintendent Dr. Lynn Moody has hardly been quiet ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:00 am

Education

New Impact Fund to help change schools’ trajectory

Tippie Miller is starting — has started — a movement. A former teacher, the mother of a teacher, and a tried-and-true public education supporter herself, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, February 8, 2015 12:00 am

Education

City academy makes superintendent’s list

Could Salisbury become a Purpose Built Community? The last item on Superintendent Dr. Lynn Moody’s wish list of initiatives to turn around Rowan-Salisbury Schools is an ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, February 8, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Science and math teachers can get boost

Free tuition at Catawba College to earn a master’s degree in teaching science or math is a really big deal. Catawba and the Rowan-Salisbury School ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, February 5, 2015 12:28 am

Editorials

County takes the long view with planning session

The meeting the Rowan County Board of Commissioners slated for this Thursday and Friday officially is called an annual planning worksession, not a retreat. But ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Schools brace for bad grades

What letter grade does your child’s school deserve? You probably would take into account lots of things — quality of teaching, academic rigor, discipline and ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Martin melds science, religion

Some believe science and religion are mutually exclusive realms, and never the twain shall meeet. Former Gov. Jim Martin presented evidence to the contrary last ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:00 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Look for Spirit of Rowan

Change is the only constant, and nowhere is that truer than at a newspaper, where we make a new product every day. It’s time to bring ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:12 am

Faith

Martin: Science and religion don’t have to conflict

Early in his talk on religion and science here Tuesday, former Gov. Jim Martin warned his Catawba College audience that some of his presentation might ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:27 am

Editorials

City manager search is crucial

One of the criticisms lobbed at members of Salisbury City Council after City Manager Doug Paris’ departure last summer was that they must not have ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Local schools, local decisions

Though they’ve been back in class after Christmas break for a couple of weeks, most public schools across the state don’t  start their second semester ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Think of four little boys

Of all the words said in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. over the past weekend, some of the most moving may have been ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Companies come and go

The argument for upping North Carolina’s incentives game seemed to grow stronger last week when Mercedes-Benz USA announced it would relocate its headquarters to Atlanta. ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:07 am

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: ‘Klansville’ sheds light on uneasy era

Some time in the early 1990s, we at the Salisbury Post decided to stop covering Ku Klux Klan marches. Twenty-five years ago, local  Klan members ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, January 11, 2015 1:36 pm

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