Our Opinion: Free speech case ends foolish NC beer label ban
Political appointees who run North Carolina’s booze bureaucracy will no longer play amateur art crit...
Our Opinion: Those who vote chart course for city, state, nation
THUMBS UP to all Wilson County residents voting in Tuesday’s elections, whether they will cast ballo...
Our Opinion: Compassionate Care Act is about patients, not pot
North Carolina’s first legal marijuana plants could sprout from Wilson County soil if lawmakers appr...
Our Opinion: Social district can give our downtown businesses a boost
THUMBS UP to city officials’ pitch for a downtown social district that would encourage bar and resta...
Our Opinion: Why won’t Wilson take charge of its public cemeteries?
Before they can defend the Maplewood and Rest Haven cemeteries’ continued separation from city gover...
Our Opinion: Body cameras still valuable as a silent witness
THUMBS UP to Sheriff Calvin Woodard’s bid to outfit all Wilson County deputies and Animal Enforcemen...
Our Opinion: Planning ahead pays dividends at polling place
To the uninitiated, “make a plan to vote” sounds like the high school essay version of a voter parti...
Our Opinion: Eyes on Main Street finds fitting home near Whirligig Park
THUMBS UP to Eyes on Main Street, which will unite two of Wilson’s premier visual arts organizations...
Our Opinion: Will Wilson stop foot-dragging on cemetery reform?
Wilson’s willful neglect of its public cemeteries put city council hopefuls on the hot seat during W...
Our Opinion: Wilson council adds pool options without subtraction
THUMBS UP to the Wilson City Council for a partnership with the new Foundation YMCA that will provid...
Our Opinion: Voters in charge of congressional ‘job interviews’
Julian Bishop called Wednesday’s congressional candidate forum a job interview, a comparison that dr...
Our Opinion: NC Senate hopefuls showed respect to voters, each other
THUMBS UP to all who attended last week’s N.C. Senate District 4 candidate forum, especially those w...
Our Opinion: Wilson schools wise to reduce student arrests
THUMBS UP to Wilson County Schools and its community partners for working to keep children and teens...
Our Opinion: Most important seat for candidate forum is yours
Four men are vying to represent you in the N.C. Senate. If you want to know where they stand on stat...
Our Opinion: Firefighters’ quick action shows local volunteers’ value
THUMBS UP to the volunteer fire service, which proved its vigilance on Friday when personnel from se...
Our Opinion: North Carolina’s uneven progress on police reform
Police reform advocates asked for a grand declaration, and legislators gave them an interoffice memo...
Our Opinion: Wilson residents turn out in force to preserve pool
THUMBS UP to heightened interest and increased citizen involvement in Wilson City Council meetings. ...
Our Opinion: General Assembly should let sun shine on discipline records
Your state lawmakers just ended the longest legislative session in at least four decades, and despit...
Our Opinion: Wilson County makes strides toward a no-kill shelter
THUMBS UP to Sheriff Calvin Woodard and the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office animal enforcement divisi...
Our Opinion: ‘Good taste’ rule for license plates is unconstitutional
A North Carolina woman’s tongue-in-cheek crusade to keep her personalized license plate is making na...
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Wilson woman joins arts grant advisory council
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Living so that we may ‘contribute a verse’
For those of us who think that our lives do not count for anything and do not contribute to the worl...