I did not go to the Four Oaks Planning Board meeting intent on opposing the request to expand the cement-distribution operation across the road from my subdivision.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2010 8:05 AM | Full story
I'm shocked, I tell you shocked, that a recent audit found inflated results in the performance reviews of state employees.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2010 8:05 AM | Full story
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In the Aug. 25 Herald, Scott Mooneyham wrote that the IRS auditor who did his audit last year and the IRS' system of verifications were "incompetent." Having gained some small expertise about IRS procedures, I have a few problems with his conclusions.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2010 3:43 PM | Full story
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After July 4, a letter writer harshly criticized the Town of Smithfield for failing to display the U.S. Flag downtown on Independence Day. In an e-mail copied to The Herald, the town tried to defend itself but, we think, took the wrong approach.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2010 8:20 PM | Full story
Say what they will, but Clayton leaders are close to banning all but a few roadside vendors. True, a proposed rule would allow shoe sales in front of shoe stores and furniture sales in front of furniture stores.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2010 8:15 PM | Full story
As World War II began in Europe, food prices went up at Johnston County grocery stores, and a Herald survey found that most folks here thought the United States would eventually join the fight.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2010 8:20 PM | Full story
Many of those insured by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina have likely been doing some fist-shaking lately.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2010 8:13 AM | Full story
During the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Westinghouse Company buried an 800-pound time capsule, to be dug up 5,000 years later.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2010 8:15 PM | Full story
Once upon a time, the case against toll roads was easy. Because time is money and because toll booths slowed traffic, toll roads were a burden on business.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
The news release said the congressman had voted to save thousands of teaching jobs, including 119 in Johnston County. But those 119 jobs in Johnston were never at risk.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
In a recent article, district attorney candidate George Murphy reportedly said the timing of the recently failed actions of incumbent Susan Doyle to revive the infamous DWI cases was politically motivated.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
Integration was set for the start of the school year, with 110 black students opting to attend previously all-white schools.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
Last year, my wife and I were audited by the IRS.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
By definition, politicians make political decisions, so we won't debate those who say District Attorney Susan Doyle made a political calculation when she moved to reinstate drunk-driving charges that had been dismissed illegally.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2010 8:22 AM | Full story
Parents of schoolchildren in North Carolina must shake their heads when the state releases its annual survey of school performance.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2010 8:27 AM | Full story
Anyone who characterizes the Etheridge video as "putting your arms around someone" is way past spin and Kool-Aid drinking. They have a problem with the truth.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2010 8:22 AM | Full story
"The fact is that in too many districts today, people's vote really probably won't make a difference."
Updated: Aug. 18, 2010 8:27 AM | Full story
The Aycock Debating Society, a public-speaking group in Ingrams Township, was asking Johnstonians to sign a pledge to abstain from "the great evil of strong drinks." The Smithfield Roller Mill opened, giving wheat farmers a place to produce flour.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2010 8:27 AM | Full story
Next week, when a family or business Googles "Smithfield, N.C.," it will no doubt come across something akin to "Town enacts youth curfew." And that one search result might cross Smithfield off the list of potential places to live or do business.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2010 4:39 PM | Full story
Earlier this month, Gov. Beverly Perdue sent a memo to state agency heads urging their cooperation with an effort to consolidate state computer networks.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
No longer do unions serve the function of protecting workers from unscrupulous employers. They now financially rape the employers and create unrealistic wages and benefits that foster mediocre work ethics.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
On the path to a healthier lifestyle, my wife, Susan, has taken to walking, sometimes at the Johnston Medical Mall but often at Community Park in Smithfield.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2010 4:39 PM | Full story
A fire destroyed the Galley Sandwich Shop, which was in the space next to the Howell Theater in downtown Smithfield. Selma radio station WBZB ended its broadcasts after lightning struck its tower.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2010 4:34 PM | Full story
We'd like to applaud those Johnston Health commissioners who voted to end their monthly hospital-paid dinners.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2010 2:30 PM | Full story
Yeah, Athens sounds about right - or the Aegian Islands, maybe, or the monasteries of Meteora. The thing is, I don't know quite where I'll be when this newspaper lands in your driveway.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2010 2:30 PM | Full story
I an writing in defense of the Johnston County Commissioners. I felt like they were shredded in the paper recently.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2010 3:26 PM | Full story
College students and their parents were given a little sugar with the recent bad medicine of substantial tuition increases at many University of North Carolina campuses.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2010 2:30 PM | Full story
It's true that every child can learn, but no one believes that all children learn at the same rate.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2010 4:21 PM | Full story
Randy Glover can hardly be held responsible for all of the problems at the State Highway Patrol.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2010 4:16 PM | Full story
Finding the time to write something original for my July column has been hard.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2010 4:16 PM | Full story
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