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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
NAACP should apologize for baseless claims
July 5, 2021The recent statement by the Rev. Anthony Spearman of the North Carolina NAACP about Senate Bill 473 ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Raise community college pay to invest in our state
May 31, 2021As North Carolina faces an economic crisis amidst a pandemic, our community colleges will be key to ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Generous givers blessed 8.9 million kids
January 18, 2021Despite a global pandemic, residents throughout the Coastal Plain N.C. Area Team shared the true meaning of Christmas...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Town should help fix Faith Christian Ministries building
January 11, 2021Faith Christian Ministries of Spring Hope helped me stop an eviction order and catch up on my back r...
EDITORIALS
Our Opinion: For innocent man, governor's pardon is too long overdue
A year and a half after winning his freedom, Ray Finch feels forgotten. The Wilson man spent more t...
Our Opinion: District attorney backs vital court system reforms
THUMBS UP to District Attorney Robert Evans for his work on a comprehensive report recommending refo...
Our Opinion: Counties once again looking to operate in the dark
February 5, 2021Like a bad penny, legislation to hide public notices from the public is back in the N.C. General Ass...
Talk Back: Skateboarders elicit strong reactions
December 21, 2020Enterprise readers shared their views on the newspaper’s editorial, “Skateboarding is not a crime, S...
Our Opinion: Skateboarding is not a crime, commissioners
Psychologist and public intellectual Jordan Peterson’s bestseller “12 Rules for Life” should be requ...
COREY FRIEDMAN COLUMNS
Add student press freedom to the syllabus
Trigger-happy gun ban will backfire
Fight conspiracies with amnesty, not blame
Black smokers don't need white saviors
Free broadcasters from political pressure
Cawthorn cries freedom, then plays censor
A solution for budget-busting hospital bills
Tide turning against bias response teams
Social media can 'defriend' direct sellers
Cuomo salutes Confederate flag censors
Artists seek more control, less fine print
Rewards for masks might be a lifesaver
Prescriptions aren't making patients safer
Parler falls short on lofty free speech promises
Marijuana bans going up in smoke
States can't defend ballot selfie bans
Scary laws won't make Halloween safer
Don't mistake moderators for censors
Will high court allow 'double secret probation' for sexual misconduct?
Trump diagnosis changes pandemic politics
Courts can't censor jury rights flyers
With war chests, candidates can support local news
Trump purges politics from diversity training
Regulators' food fight isn't about consumers
Joe Rogan picks Texas over taxes
COLUMNS
Storm chances, humidity to rise next week
Sunny and hot conditions, but with tolerable humidity, are forecast for the Wilson Times area this we...
Lack of enforcement enables sex buyers, human traffickers
In the United States, various institutions and groups have made efforts to combat the problem of hum...
Supporting local journalism supports this community
The Local Journalism Sustainability Act was recently introduced in the House and has now been introd...
Burning the midnight kilowatts
“There’s nothing good going on after midnight that you need to be part of,” my momma repeatedly told...
Effect of state policy isn't huge
RALEIGH — For years, North Carolina conservatives and progressives argued incessantly about the effe...
Take away government's social media privileges
“Modern technology companies have enabled misinformation to poison our information environment with ...
Ancient wisdom still spot-on for modern times
The world has always had its share of wise people. Those thought to be wise have a deep understandin...
Proxy voting in Congress? Do the job or quit
“When the House revamped its rules in the early days of the pandemic to allow lawmakers to vote remo...
Summer heat expected to return this week
The Wilson Times area will likely begin the process of returning to typical summertime conditions Tu...
Court reopens age restriction debate
It’s not about guns. It’s about citizenship. That’s the takeaway from a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals...
We need more and better policing
RALEIGH — One of the best ways to save Black lives and help poor North Carolinians would be to incre...
Gov. Cooper maps an alternative path
North Carolina may go a third straight year without a new state budget. We definitely will go an 11t...
A missing woman in Manteo, and it's not Virginia Dare
What happened to her? If you raise this question in Manteo on Roanoke Island at the edge of the Oute...
Vaccine resistance is selfish, stupid
I used to think Americans were a pretty smart people, at or at least somewhere near the top in the w...
Humans: Neither worms nor demigods
Have you ever heard of “worm theology”? It’s the belief that we humans are just awful beings, as low...
Nothing is impossible with God's help
Great day at Peachtree Baptist Church. The faithful were there to praise our Lord. The sanctuary flo...
Hosting in the victory garden
I woke up a couple of weeks ago with a brilliant idea. We should host a foreign exchange student thi...
Shower, storm chances usher in cold front
The Bermuda high pressure system that dominated the weather this past week in the Wilson Times area ...
Which economic scenario will emerge?
Mark Twain once said, “It’s difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future.” Economist...
Senate budget unfair to retired state employees
During my organization’s half-century of advocating for the interests of North Carolina’s retired go...
Right, Left differ on personal agency
RALEIGH — Because political behavior is a rich and fascinating field of study, you can find many val...