Candidates typically aren’t taken seriously when they’ve never held any local elected office, make few public appearances and show little ability to raise the money needed to be competitive.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2008 8:41 AM | Full story
Many publicly elected officials believe they don’t have to answer questions about the public’s business.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2008 2:46 PM | Full story
It’s not clear what constitution Thomas Wright and his lawyer are reading.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2008 10:15 AM | Full story
Many things change rapidly. Right now the newspaper business is changing rapidly. And this paper, which marked its 125th year in business only a few months ago, is also undergoing major changes.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2008 10:12 AM | Full story
Do voters really want fresh faces and fresh starts in politics, or do they prefer experience and business as usual?
Updated: Feb. 1, 2008 9:44 AM | Full story
South Carolina’s lawsuit to stop a water transfer from the Catawba River basin points to the need for interstate compacts as water supplies across the South become increasingly stretched.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2008 3:23 PM | Full story
We would do well to pause long enough to be grateful for our sturdy houses, schools and workplaces, and for warmth provided by something other than twigs we have gathered in the woods.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2008 9:28 AM | Full story
After running off country singer Randy Parton, the city council decided to rename the theater carrying his name. Its choice? The Roanoke Rapids Theatre.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2008 9:53 AM | Full story
Sometimes Christmas cards seem a tedious waste of postage. But not when they help us keep in touch with longtime friends we might otherwise lose.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2008 9:56 AM | Full story
Holiday greeting cards from lobbyists and state vendors to legislators and top state officials might violate the new state ethics law.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2008 1:22 PM | Full story
By all accounts, “Miss Mary” was a woman who had a precious gift: She knew how to make small children feel safe in an uncertain world.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2008 9:57 AM | Full story
To hear government types describe ordinary people picking up an arrowhead or two as “pilfering cultural resources off the public land” is laughable.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2008 9:59 AM | Full story
Recently I decided that my brother and sister might like to have copies of what our father recorded in a diary he kept way back in 1934.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2008 10:00 AM | Full story
A system that coddles juvenile criminals does them no favors. And the state has a larger duty to protect peaceful society from violent criminals, no matter their age.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2008 10:01 AM | Full story
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