LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Come together to save lives at Fike blood drive
March 6, 2021Unity is within our grasp, at least on a small scale and fostering very human and humane connections...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Pardon, pay Ray Finch for 43 stolen years
March 3, 2021It’s a shame and a disgrace that Gov. Roy Cooper has not given Ray Finch a pardon of innocence. The ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
GOP's old guard must regain control
March 3, 2021I believe we are seeing the creation of a new Republican Party. The old Republican Party, when it wa...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Cancel culture comes for Dr. Seuss
March 3, 2021Michelle Obama was featured on PBS reading Dr. Seuss books in 2020. It appears that she was unaware ...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Wokescolds promote division, not equality
March 3, 2021Most Sunday mornings, I have breakfast with a group of friends at a local restaurant. We have severa...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Conservatives don’t practice what they preach
February 27, 2021Re: “Virus relief spending requires accountability,” by Mick Rankin, Feb. 19: I support Mr. Rankin’...
Our Opinion: Spring Litter Sweep provides chance to clean Wilson's roads
State transportation crews are working to rid our roadsides of litter and illegally dumped household...
Our Opinion: Elm City water woes call for overdue solution
THUMBS DOWN to continued water woes in Elm City with no relief in sight after state officials answer...
Our Opinion: Election integrity doesn't require a federal takeover
A sweeping overhaul of U.S. voting laws hurtling through the House would steamroll state legislature...
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: Pandemic produces a litter epidemic on Wilson roadsides
Plastic soda bottles, fast-food wrappers, cardboard, crumpled receipts and even full-size garbage ba...
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: After 125 years, Times still telling Wilson's stories
Newspapers are often called “the first rough draft of history,” and for a century and a quarter, Wil...
Supreme Court case pits schools against parents
Battle lines are being redrawn in a First Amendment case on the Supreme Court’s docket. What started...
After chilly weekend, warmup begins Tuesday
A large high-pressure ridge has pushed cold air into the Wilson Times area, but by Tuesday, a quick ...
NC workers deserve pandemic relief funds
This week, the General Assembly passed additional COVID-19 relief in House Bill 196. Here are some h...
Guaranteed admission for college transfer students
Did you know that Wilson Community College has established partnerships to offer students guaranteed...
Raise North Carolina's minimum wage
Back when I started working in 1964, the minimum wage was $1.25, a Hardee’s hamburger was 15 cents, ...
Levers help charities meet needs
RALEIGH — You may not know much about an ancient Greek mathematician and inventor named Archimedes. ...
Keep local government accountable, transparent
Too often, the news is dominated by what divides us as Americans. Yet, there are values I think we a...
Time to learn again
I remember springtime in school, that is, at Margaret Hearne Elementary from the first through eight...
Crab Du Jour, 3rd Starbucks coming to Wilson
Louisiana-style seafood will soon be served fresh in western Wilson with Crab Du Jour set to open th...
Expect a cloudy week with seesawing temps
The sun is forecast to briefly return to the Wilson Times area Tuesday, only to give way to more clo...
'This Lenten season does not belong to me'
I’m not observing Lent this year. This is the first time in more than a decade that I haven’t partic...
What is Roy Cooper's special sauce?
A national reporter recently wrote a flattering article about Gov. Roy Cooper, but seemed flummoxed ...
Reduce health care's cost, not just its price
RALEIGH — Too many North Carolinians lack access to the medical services they need. One possible re...
Gearing up for local foods in season
We are about to enter one of my favorite times of the year. You will soon begin to see a variety of ...
COREY FRIEDMAN COLUMNS
Private flag, sign rules stifle speech
Mark Silverstein is seizing his chance to wedge a foot in the door for free speech. After suing a su...
Add student press freedom to the syllabus
In Indiana, student journalists say Plainfield High School prevented them from reporting a classmate...
Trigger-happy gun ban will backfire
A sweeping gun control bill stoking red-state resistance may prove more of a blessing than a curse f...
Fight conspiracies with amnesty, not blame
No one remembers the Affordable Care Act as H.R. 3590 or the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as H.R. 1. When C...
Black smokers don't need white saviors
When it comes to deceptive marketing, Big Tobacco is no match for big government. A coalition of 23 ...
Free broadcasters from political pressure
Voice of America can’t have it both ways. The broadcaster insists it’s not a government propaganda a...
Cawthorn cries freedom, then plays censor
His name may be a nod to the Founding Father and fourth president, but Rep. Madison Cawthorn is no J...
A solution for budget-busting hospital bills
If you’re scheduling a surgery or screening this year, break out the calculator along with your cale...
Tide turning against bias response teams
When an off-color joke or clumsy come-on is reported, the speech police swoop into action, threateni...
Social media can 'defriend' direct sellers
Facebook and Twitter courted controversy by flagging and fact-checking voter fraud claims on their p...
RATHER BE COOKING
Warm up the family with delicious vegetable soup
I thought our snowy day last month was the perfect time to try a co-worker’s vegetable beef soup rec...
Actress shares her journey to healthy eating
I enjoyed watching the sitcom “Sister, Sister” with my daughter when she was a little girl. I’ve alw...
Quick bread packed with goodness
When Christmastime rolls around, I start making lists of goodies I want to make. Alas, the list gets...
Baked French toast a morning treat
We had a special breakfast at my house recently, overnight French toast filled with fruit and pecans...
2020: A year of new favorite recipes
I love my annual tradition of sharing the year’s favorite recipes from my food column. Last week, I...
Marble cake worth the effort
Do you like to challenge yourself in the kitchen? Sometimes I do. Other times, I take the easier path. Last week, I flipped through the pages of “Martha Stewart’s Cake Perfection” and tried …
Peaches make coffee cake special
I know it’s basically the end of peach season, but I was lucky to find a few nice peaches at the grocery store Saturday to use in a cake recipe I had seen from the blog A Farmgirl’s Dabbles. I …
So many ways to use those summer tomatoes
My husband and I planted lots of tomatoes this year: cherry, Roma and big old slicing tomatoes. We grew some of the Cherokee Purple variety from seed and others from plants we purchased at a local …
Sweet potato muffins will remind you of fall
It’s amazing how a muffin can give you all the feelings of fall. I could smell the cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves as my sweet potato muffins baked last week, and later I could taste the flavors I …
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