Dems play semantics while spoiling for socialism
June 27, 2022Would you save a swamp or a wetland? Preserve a jungle or a rainforest? Favor women’s health or abor...
Democrats choose power over compassion
June 26, 2022Interestingly, the Democratic Party always supports the most oppressive and inhumane laws and societ...
‘Moana’ moves Wilson
June 26, 2022June 18 provided a special destination for dance fans when Dance Studio B presented “Moana” on the s...
Cyclist seeks stolen racing bike’s return
June 22, 2022My parents moved to Wilson in the early 1970s and soon after, they built a house in Jennings Acres. ...
Wilson youth at risk of fentanyl poisoning
June 20, 2022The recent Wilson Times report of a dollar bill found with fentanyl residue (“Dollar bill contained ...
Compromise on gun laws is possible
June 18, 2022I am relieved and proud to hear that Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis are supporting the Senate’s ...
Hollywood night in Wilson
June 16, 2022ACT for Youth put on one of its biggest shows of the season June 4 when it presented its invitation-...
Taxing the rich won’t curb inflation
June 15, 2022Inflation is hitting America hard, especially those in middle- and lower-income brackets. The admini...
Try, try again
June 15, 2022When I was a sixth grader in Memphis, back in the Jurassic period, the boy I walked to and from scho...
Wilson’s spelling champ gets head start on lifetime of learning
June 11, 2022Congratulations to Wilson’s own Ka’Mauri Best, his parents, the other Scripps National Spelling Bee ...
Sculptures come to Wilson
June 11, 2022June 2 was an exciting night at the Wilson Arts Center as sculptors from all over North Carolina bro...
Heed WWII’s warning and resist slide into autocracy
June 9, 2022Monday was June 6, the anniversary of D-Day at Normandy. May and June bring back memories both sad a...
More to Medicaid expansion than meets the eye
June 8, 2022Interesting how so many people are patting themselves on the back for finally getting movement on Me...
Curriculum needs less sex, more manners
June 8, 2022As we progress as a society, it seems that forward movement does not always carry us in a better dir...
Darden alumni weekend was delightful
June 6, 2022Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29 were both special days in Wilson as the Charles H. Darden High S...
Wilson must address noise complaints, speeding
June 6, 2022Re: “Nuisance complaints sidetrack city budget debate”: I am so pleased to see the conversation at t...
US needs quartermaster to manage economy
June 6, 2022A recent letter from Mick Rankin (“High fuel costs can result in disaster,” May 24) was very accurat...
Look to nature to relieve modern stresses
June 6, 2022Our world is in a turbulent condition that drives the anxiety that is pervasive among the American p...
Bad news, hardly news and wobbly news
June 6, 2022Security measures were taken recently to whisk the president off to a fire station near his Delaware...
Why cut cemetery panel’s pay and not its responsibilities?
June 4, 2022In case you have not heard or read the May 19 amendment to Section 2-34 (O-O29-22), the Wilson City...
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North Carolina is blessed with more than its share of great writers. And I am looking over some of m...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs receives lifetime honor at BET Awards
LOS ANGELES — With a speech about his own inspirational dream for the Black community, Sean “Diddy” ...