The Democratic tide last week lifted Kay Hagan to a surprisingly easy victory over incumbent U.S. senator Elizabeth Dole. The same tide helped Bev Perdue become the first woman governor of North Carolina.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2008 11:29 AM | Full story
I didn’t get the memo, but apparently, last week was “Bark at Bolejack Week.”
Updated: Nov. 5, 2008 2:13 PM | Full story
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What's a voter to do?
Updated: Oct. 30, 2008 11:21 AM | Full story
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County commissioner candidate James Brantley gives Johnston commissioners too much credit.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2008 1:43 PM | Full story
In the end, success on an Advanced Placement exam matters only to the student who takes it.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2008 10:18 AM | Full story
After Johnston Sheriff Steve Bizzell disparaged an entire ethnic group, at least we’re talking about immigration in this county. Problem is, we’re no better at compromise than those Washington politicians we criticize for failing to reform immigration.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2008 12:53 PM | Full story
Johnston residents prefer good roads over different modes of transportation.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2008 10:38 AM | Full story
It’s just hard to get worked up about SAT scores.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2008 12:44 PM | Full story
School board's heart is in the right place.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2008 10:51 AM | Full story
Development deal could prove a costly investment.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2008 1:59 PM | Full story
Updated: Aug. 20, 2008 1:55 PM | Full story
It should be a no-brainer: If your child is sick, don’t take her to school or day-care, where she won’t be able to recuperate and will only pass the germs to others.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2008 12:17 PM | Full story
It is comforting to know the schools are going tobacco-free. When will they be free of drugs and weapons?
Updated: Aug. 6, 2008 4:35 PM | Full story
Improving Smithfield’s entrances and its main interchange with Interstate 95 is important, one reader says.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2008 4:42 PM | Full story
It is not surprising that state lawmakers this spring and summer revisited the ethics laws passed in 2006.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2008 4:40 PM | Full story
In Smithfield, we’d pay the best money to see U.S. 301 four-laned from Carroll Pharmacy to Holt Lake. And we’d carry the four lanes all the way to U.S. 701 and maybe into Four Oaks.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2008 10:32 AM | Full story
On paper, it is simply a contest: to create a slogan, a tagline, that will help Smithfield market its Recreation and Aquatics Center. But in reality, it is much more than that, and we suspect — at least hope — Smithfield leaders know that.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2008 10:29 AM | Full story
Lawmakers learn that a surplus projected for the State Health Plan, which insures state employees and retirees, would turn into a shortfall that could reach $140 million.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2008 10:36 AM | Full story
We can't think of a single Johnston County town that has ever allowed its citizens to weigh in on the hiring of its chief executive.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 9:28 AM | Full story
Our fear is that the farther people live from downtown, the less often they will go there and spend their money at shops and restaurants.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 9:30 AM | Full story
Tying water conservation to drought creates exactly the reaction you’d expect when someone sees a flash flood one evening and is told there’s a drought the next: “Yeah, sure.”
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 9:34 AM | Full story
Clearly, the school board is committed to its employees; it spent $2.6 million to turn an old three-story classroom building into offices that house about four dozen people. But what about its commitment to gifted students?
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:37 PM | Full story
Smithfield residents can take some comfort in knowing that growth is on its way. The U.S. 70 bypass of Clayton will bring that growth, first to Wilson's Mills, we suspect, but then to Smithfield and Selma.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:36 PM | Full story
The July 4 holiday weekend was one of those times when I was glad to no longer be working for the Associated Press.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:31 PM | Full story
Americans have so much for which to be thankful, especially when compared to others.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:27 PM | Full story
County and school leaders had to put one project ahead of the other, while looking for extra money needed to complete a second high school.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:00 AM | Full story
Given the price of gasoline today, we’d just as soon live fairly close to the grocery store, other shops and restaurants.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:02 AM | Full story
Stop signs really don’t mean anything; the speeders just roll right on through.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:09 AM | Full story
Digging up dirt on the opponent has become standard operating procedure for major political campaigns in America.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:06 AM | Full story
Season is about more than vacations and cookouts.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2008 10:48 AM | Full story
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