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Letters

Letters to the editor – Thursday – 2-23-17

The importance of taking an oath Last Friday in the Post, a comment appeared in response to the column by Emily Hibshman the previous day ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:30 pm

Business

Daimler plant manager optimistic about future

By Elizabeth Cook ecook@salisburypost.com CLEVELAND — Henning O. Bruns  welcomed members of the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce to Daimler’s fledgling truck museum Thursday morning to talk ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, February 17, 2017 12:00 am

Business

RowanWorks: Industrial site near Daimler has gained momentum

By Elizabeth Cook ecook@salisburypost.com CLEVELAND — A 115-acre tract across U.S. 70 from Freightliner  has been rezoned for light industry and is primed for development, according ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:52 pm

Letters

Letters to the editor – Sunday – 2-12-17

Correct answer is obvious The writer is responding to a Jan. 28 letter in the Post, “Celebrate no tobacco.” Thank you, Donna Waldron from Hickory, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, February 11, 2017 10:42 pm

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: News is real

President Donald Trump says the media is dishonest. How do we know Trump says that? Because the media keeps telling us. Does anyone get the ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, January 28, 2017 11:56 pm

Letters

Letters to the editor – Wednesday – 1-25-17

Don’t be quick to judge people who need Medicaid The writer is responding to two letters in the Jan. 19 paper, “Expanding Medicaid would cost ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:15 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Words matter; deeds matter more

What did Donald Trump mean, and when did he mean it? The president’s inaugural address and other remarks since the election make me wonder. Friday’s ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, January 21, 2017 10:38 pm

Education

Buses on the road again: Schools have 2-hour delay

School buses will be back on the road today as Rowan-Salisbury Schools resume classes on a two-hour delay. Buses were idled Monday and Tuesday because ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, January 11, 2017 1:58 am

News

Obama says goodbye to the nation, admits to challenges ahead

By Juliet Eilperin and Greg Jaffe The Washington Post CHICAGO — President Barack Obama used his farewell speech here on Tuesday to outline the gathering threats ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, January 11, 2017 12:36 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Pity the snow; it can’t commit

We have a love affair with snow in the South. At least some of us do. We watch for it. Wait for it. Thrill to ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, January 8, 2017 1:01 am

Editorials

Darts and laurels: Despicable hate crime

Dart to the cruelty displayed for all the world to see when four young African-Americans in Chicago beat and tortured a mentally disabled white teen. ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, January 6, 2017 6:37 pm

Editorials

Quotes of the week

“If it were easy, everyone would do it.” — Greg Culp, former owner of Hap’s Grill, on the hard work involved in running the downtown ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, January 5, 2017 7:48 pm

Letters

Letters to the editor – Thursday – 1-5-16

Take partisanship out of drawing district lines I read the following quote in the Salisbury Post on Saturday. “The governor-elect should understand better than anyone ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 10:11 pm

Local

Some power restored to Gov.-elect Cooper — for now

RALEIGH  (AP) — A North Carolina judge granted a small victory to the state’s incoming Democratic governor on Friday, temporarily blocking a law by Republican ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, December 30, 2016 6:03 pm

Local

VA nurse, director win recognition

Hefner VA Medical Center SALISBURY — Two Salisbury VA Health Care System employees were recently recognized nationally for their exemplary service and dedication to Veteran ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 11:50 pm

Christmas Happiness

Christmas Happiness: You helped make today special for many a child

Salisbury Post readers have done it again. The Post’s Christmas Happiness Fund, which you generously support, has raised enough money to help hundreds of families have ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, December 25, 2016 12:00 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: ‘If that stranger only knew’

Christmas makes people do funny things — good things. Two women who have been touched by the  kindness of strangers brought their stories to the ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, December 25, 2016 12:00 am

Editorials

Other Voices: Roof’s poison ideas must die

After two hours of deliberation, a jury found Dylann Roof guilty of the June 2015 murder of nine parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, December 21, 2016 1:04 am

Columnists

Ugliness in season of joy: Sparring over alleged war on Christmas

By Petula Dvorak Washington Post “Happy Holidays,” the grocery clerk said to the customer in front of me the other day. “You mean, Merry Christmas,” ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, December 19, 2016 1:55 pm

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Ready for Christmas? Me neither

Finally, the tree is up — still unadorned, but at least it is in the house. Some years Christmas takes hold slowly. This is one ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:46 pm

News

Dylann Roof convicted in Charleston church shooting trial

(c) 2016, The Washington Post · CHARLESTON, S.C. — After nearly a week of painful testimony that vividly recreated the massacre at this city’s famed ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, December 15, 2016 4:50 pm

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: A’yanna deserved better

Young men have been shooting at each other in town for years, and people in the safer neighborhoods of Salisbury have come to shrug it ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Pearl Harbor remembered

Leroy Barber grew up in rural New London, Wis., hunting and fishing with two of his brothers. He enlisted in the Navy, trained at the ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:46 am

Columnists

Dee Ellison: A community of ‘we’

By Debra Ellison Special to the Salisbury Post When you opened the pages of the newspaper or read posts from social media on the tragic ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:46 am

Letters

Letters to the editor – Wednesday – 12-7-16

Children should not have to learn this lesson so young Heartbroken. Aching for the tragic loss of A’Yanna,  my heart is aching for the innocence ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:44 am

Crime

Reward offered for missing Legion team banners

SALISBURY — Two of the Harold B. Jarrett American Legion Post’s most-prized possessions — flags recognizing Rowan County’s winning Legion baseball team — have disappeared, and ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, December 2, 2016 12:05 pm

Letters

Talkback: What online readers say about …

… Trump’s pride  is showing California and New York openly encourage illegal immigrants to vote. (Or are you truly that ignorant.) They sponsor sanctuary cities, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, December 1, 2016 8:46 pm

Editorials

Editorial: Sowing doubt by the millions

Propagandists plotting to undermine confidence in democracy got a huge assist Sunday from President-elect Donald Trump. Striking back at talk about Hillary Clinton’s popular-vote edge, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, November 28, 2016 10:42 pm

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