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Kenneth L. Hardin: I’m not celebrating Independence Day either

I didn’t celebrate Juneteenth, the day skinfolk recognize as their freedom day, and I won’t be joining in on ...

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My Turn, Steve Blount: Reconsider visiting Spencer

Dylan Horne’s June 26 “My Turn” opinion piece concerning bike lanes and road diet efforts along Salisbury Avenue ...

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Roger Barbee: Letter to Coach Kennedy

In May, The Sports Column’s Matthew Paris authored a piece on how the SCOTUS would be hearing a ...

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Sharon Randall: Seeing danger

My mother tried to teach me to see danger. Even the kind you can’t see until it’s too ...

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Alexander H. Jones: The right’s lonely war against Medicaid expansion is doomed

A dream so long enjoyed cannot cease without hardship. But the psychological pain of diminishing hope seems to ...

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John Hood: Will Joe Biden really go stag?

RALEIGH — Soaring prices. Social unrest. A resurgent Russia. A military withdrawal followed by the collapse of a ...

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My Turn, Phil Kirk: Now is the time for Medicaid expansion

Now, not next year, is the time to implement Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.  I am writing as ...

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Kenneth L. Hardin: My heart can’t sustain the continued loss

I’m lamenting a deep loss that happened well before COVID-19 robbed us of a normal life. It’s not ...

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My Turn, Dylan Horne: A missed opportunity on Salisbury Avenue in Spencer

The town of Spencer missed an opportunity to improve the safety and livability of their community by maintaining ...

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My Turn, Carol Pomeroy: Is it ever all right?

When is it ever all right to interfere in the life of another person with intimidation, lies, fear ...

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Lee Ann Garrett: Post manager recounts details of gunfire ringing out during delivery duties

By Lee Ann Garrett It’s been a little over a week since someone shot at me and chased ...

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My Turn, Evelyn Uddin-khan: Guns and politics do not mix    

By Evelyn Uddin-khan The rallying cries of the American people are ringing all across this democratic land. From ...

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Sharon Randall: A summer daydream

On my way back from the post office, I drove past a school. The parking lot sat empty, ...

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John Hood: Licensing hurts consumers more than it helps

RALEIGH — Although North Carolina has become a demonstrably freer place to live and work over the past ...

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Alexander Jones: A gun safety immune response?

F or years, the United States has been divided into two nations, with one of them smaller than, ...

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My Turn, Karen Puckett: Jan. 6 coup attempt was leading us into authoritarianism

I was taken aback as I watched the first of six scheduled hearings regarding the Jan. 6 insurrection. ...

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My Turn, Douglas Isham: How sad for Catawba to remove Indian logo

By Douglas Isham I feel I needed to post something about the recent demise of the Catawba indigenous ...

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Kenneth L. Hardin: I’m not celebrating Juneteenth again this year either

Last year I wrote in this newspaper how I wouldn’t be celebrating the Juneteenth “holiday.” Nothing has happened ...

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Whitey Harwood’s From the Woodshed: Everything that glitters is not gold

In the Salisbury Post (May 29, 2022) was this story, “VA Doctor Honored for Excellence in Care Leadership.” ...

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My Turn, Roger Barbee: I deserve what …

The reports of some professional golfers signing to play for a new league remind me of an old ...

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Francis Koster: Climate change is getting personal

By Francis Koster   You are about to have a “learning moment”. That is when you experience something ...

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Sharon Randall: Another day in paradise

The calendar in my kitchen tried to tell me it’s still spring, but I found it hard to ...

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DG Martin: College reunions take us back in time

Preparing for this month’s 60th reunion of my Davidson College class I thought about a talk I gave ...

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Alexander Jones: America, what have you become?

I remember when, in about 2010, Republicans began putting pictures of assault rifles in their campaign advertisements. The ...

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John Hood: We should do more for entrepreneurs

By John Hood RALEIGH — When it comes to fostering new businesses, North Carolina is doing better than ...

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Roger Barbee:  Robert’s lesson on hunting

One of my favorite hunting stories is told by my friend Robert and it happened when he took ...

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The time to support local news is now

By Dean Ridings America’s Newspapers CEO Congress has an opportunity to pass legislation that benefits all local citizens, ...

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Francis Koster: Members of the North Carolina House need to clean their glasses

Back in 2013, it became possible for all states to expand Medicaid health insurance for lower income people. ...

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