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Creating community, one conversation at a time
Walking home one evening, I came to an intersection. A family and a couple were waiting for the light, the family bantering about crossing against the light. “My knees won’t let me go that fast!” the grandma warned. “Ma’am, I’m with you!” the man from...
You Decide: Why are jobs increasing?
The American job market just seems to keep rolling on. The recently released March labor market report showing 300,000 net additional jobs in the country was significantly above economists’ expectations. Employers seem to be ignoring concerns about high interest rates, continuing inflation, recession, foreign wars...
Rep. Davis works to save innovation in NC
Rep. Don Davis recently introduced a bill that will help residents of North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District access cutting-edge medications in the years to come. The Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures Act would fix a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that could force more...
Our Opinion: Heckler’s veto rears ugly head to silence speech
From North Carolina to California, political hot potatoes such as immigration and Israel’s war with Hamas have become a convenient excuse for schools to suppress student speech. Central Davidson High School gave 16-year-old Christian McGhee a three-day suspension for using the term “illegal alien” in...
Our Opinion: Moms on a Mission takes aim at overdose epidemic
THUMBS UP to Moms on a Mission members and supporters who marched from the nonprofit’s Nash Street office to the Wilson County Courthouse steps to raise awareness of fatal drug overdoses and seek solutions to the opioid, heroin and fentanyl epidemic. MOM held the march...
Our Opinion: Hate speech bans consider some too weak for freedom
Editor’s note: “Harry Pottter” author J.K. Rowling made international news earlier this month when she dared police in her native Scotland to arrest her under a hate speech ban that could be used to punish people who express disfavored views. Police said Rowling’s controversial social...
