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Editorial: More creative vaccination lottery ideas

How about some more creative vaccination lottery ideas? North Carolina last week announced a vaccination lottery offering four ...

Opinion

Editorial: NC ups the ante on vaccine incentives

What more can they do? Health care professionals and politicians have tried communicating the seriousness of COVID-19 through ...

Editorials

Darts: RCCC must commit to timely hiring of qualified talent

Dart to Rowan-Cabarrus Community college for avoidable issues that resulted in state auditors finding millions of dollars in ...

Editorials

Editorial: Trump endorsement gives Budd GOP primary lead

No one wants to be a Washington insider in North Carolina’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate, particularly if ...

Editorials

Editorial: Other agencies might be forced to raise pay, too

With fewer people entering law enforcement and the city of Salisbury raising police pay to help with recruitment ...

Editorials

Editorial: County on verge of completing meaningful high school sports year

They’re going to do it. Despite worry about whether high school athletes would have a season amid the ...

Editorials

Laurels: County wise to include $55 million for K-8 in budget

Laurel to Rowan County Manager Aaron Church and staff members for including money in the proposed budget to ...

Editorials

Editorial: Back to the future for class of 2021

Every year’s graduating class enters a world with a slightly different bounty of possibilities in front of them. ...

Editorials

Editorial: A tale of two cities in Kannapolis, Salisbury

In a city where new developments keep coming across the horizon, the former Kannapolis Intimidators stadium already has ...

Editorials

Editorial: Be careful with proposal to eliminate transit route

It’s easy to talk about government as if it’s a business, saying fees charged and revenue dwarf expenses ...

Editorials

Editorial: Personal responsibility now reigns as king

New guidance last week about wearing masks indoors doesn’t mean the end of the virus, but it will ...

Editorials

Editorial: Gas shortage proves we’re not so good at collective action

On a regular basis, it seems, the country is getting a lesson in its ability to collectively act ...

Opinion

Darts and Laurels: New job portal needed

Laurel to the Rowan County Economic Development Commission for creating a tool to pull job listings from across ...

Editorials

Editorial: Make more substantial progress on bond referendum

Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell described it as “groundbreaking and lifesaving.” County Commissioners Vice Chairman Jim Greene called ...

Editorials

Editorial: State likely in for future without herd immunity

From a community like Salisbury and Rowan County, it’s hard to see a future where two-thirds of the ...

Editorials

Editorial: Could park come to Enochville property?

The county’s parks master plan in 2016 gave the Rowan County Board of Commissioners a suggestion it may ...

Editorials

Editorial: Downtown moments await for Kannapolis, Salisbury

Tuesday is the moment for Kannapolis. This summer could bring a similar-type event for Salisbury. When the Kannapolis ...

Opinion

Editorial: Budd’s U.S. Senate candidacy raises other political questions

The announcement by Rowan County’s congressman, Rep. Ted Budd, that he’s running for U.S. Senate will have some ...

Editorials

Editorial: In otherwise tough Senate race, Budd teases ‘big things to come’

The math is not good for Rep. Ted Budd. In early April, the Rowan County congressman and representative ...

Editorials

Laurels: Keep making progress on Salisbury Greenway

Laurel to continued progress on making the Salisbury Greenway a complete loop and connecting parts of the city. ...

Editorials

Editorial: Has technology changed meaning of ‘public meeting’?

What is a public meeting, anyway? After some boards, councils and commissions met remotely for months and as ...

Editorials

Editorial: Vaccine tourism for Rowan County?

For years, Rowan County officials have worked hard to make the community an attractive place to live, work ...

Editorials

Editorial: Questions still unresolved about K-9 incident

For reporters, sending public records requests can sometimes feel a little like tossing paper into a never-ending black ...

Editorials

Editorial: No more waiting needed; it’s every adult’s turn

How will health officials reach the rest of the population? Rowan County finds itself just a few spots ...

Editorials

Editorial: Make sure health is among most important priorities

Which Rowan County departments are among the most important? When money is tight, which funding priorities are worth ...

Editorials

Laurels: Infill development good for community

Laurel to two different proposals to add apartment units within already developed areas in Salisbury’s city limits. One ...

Editorials

Editorial: Set targets, speak up about getting vaccinated

As the pandemic wanes because of vaccinations and reduced infection rates, people will go back to the lives ...

Editorials

Editorial: Don’t forget about class of 2020

Rowan-Salisbury Schools last week announced it will hold more traditional in-person graduation ceremonies for seniors May 29, with ...

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