Editorials

Laurels: Nursing home data give better picture of COVID-19

Laurel to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which released much more detailed data on nursing ...

Editorials

Editorial: State will reopen sooner if community stays home when possible

For weeks now, public health officials in Rowan County have been beating the social distancing drum, encouraging people ...

Editorials

Editorial: First-in-state status should bring attention

144 — That’s the number of positive COVID-19 cases at the Citadel nursing home on Julian Road in ...

Editorials

Editorial: School districts of future should look like RSS

Public education is a fundamental part of a community’s quality of life and decisions about where families with ...

Editorials

Editorial: Working in nursing homes tougher than ever

There are a number of things that can easily be deemed inexcusable about the COVID-19 outbreak at the ...

Editorials

Editorial: Find missing teen before talking changes

Across Rowan County early Saturday, anyone signed up for the county’s real-time notification system received at least one ...

Editorials

Editorial: Salisbury’s battle about more than dollars, cents

Much of what a local government does boils down to dollars and cents. In the most simplistic terms, ...

Editorials

Editorial: Better ways for elected officials to help during COVID-19

Arguments that now is the time to reopen the economy have grown louder this week, enlisting the voices ...

Editorials

Editorial: County must double down on transparency

The public deserves to know more. While Rowan County government has been receptive to requests from the Post ...

Opinion

Editorial: Delay Cheerwine Festival until crowds can gather

It’s time to make the call. Organizers of the Cheerwine Festival, scheduled for mid-May, must postpone it until ...

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 ...

Editorials

Editorial: Internet more important than ever during COVID-19

The degree to which the public is relying on the internet now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, shows more ...

Editorials

Editorial: Models provide optimism about COVID-19’s future in NC

Between rising COVID-19 case numbers and our national economic decline, it’s been hard for people of all persuasions, ...

Editorials

Editorial: Community must operate with common set of facts

Suffice to say, we’re living in a moment unlike any other in history. The spread of coronavirus and ...

Editorials

Laurels: Sense of community more important than ever

Laurel to the spirit of community, volunteerism and goodwill that find themselves trickling through Salisbury and Rowan County ...

Editorials

Editorial: County commissioners should talk about debt

Rowan County commissioners may soon face questions none of them expected just three to four weeks ago. Will ...

Editorials

Editorial: Everyone must do their part to stop virus

Salisbury and Rowan County aren’t going to “flatten the curve” very much if locals don’t take the advice ...

Editorials

Editorial: County releases important local data about COVID-19

It should have come as a dose of reality last week when the Rowan County Health Department released ...

Editorials

Editorial: Responses start rolling in to US Census; more still needed

While much of the public’s attention is rightly on the coronavirus, Salisbury and Rowan County cannot forget about ...

Editorials

Editorial: County should look to provide more data on COVID-19

When it comes to releasing information about the coronavirus outbreak, Rowan County should emulate its southern neighbors. Both ...

Editorials

Editorial: Free lunch should continue after crisis

Already, our community has learned valuable lessons about itself as the nation’s coronavirus crisis continues. It will continue ...

Editorials

Editorial: Some parts of local economy not yet affected

Here’s a curious contrast: as some businesses are looking at or living a future that includes closing their ...

Editorials

Editorial: Every red light eventually turns green

As people across America, Salisbury and Rowan County sit in their homes, hoping that our national crisis doesn’t ...

Editorials

Darts and Laurels: Educators will keep students learning during closure

Laurel to the tough work of public school educators, particularly what they’ve been faced with in recent days. ...

Editorials

Editorial: Avoid burdening system by flattening curve of coronavirus spread

Some Rowan Countians see the rush to cancel and postpone events as an overreaction for something that has ...

Editorials

Editorial: Bipartisan group must continue push for testing resources

There’s room for improvement when, in a state with more than 10 million people, only a few dozen ...

Editorials

Editorial: Add to training before graduation if diploma is OK

While some of its results may seem like dated news, a labor market survey of manufacturers conducted by ...

Editorials

Editorial: Don’t panic, but be prepared for coronavirus

Salisbury and Rowan County residents should take common precautions and avoid overreaction to news about COVID-19, sometimes referred ...

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