Today's Opinions

To the editor:

We have a town council that has adopted a thoughtless practice of spend, spend, spend, regardless of what voters and residents want. 

To the editor:

Recent stories in the press have contained misstatements about the new N.C. budget, which passed this weekend. 

I’ve been in newspapers since 1998, and I’ve learned a lot of lessons.

The one thing consistent wherever I go is people have lots of opinions and they want to share them—whether you want to hear them or not.

Once people get accustomed to seeing a person’s photo and name in newsprint, they assume that person is a perfectly good target for all things tossed at them.