Today's Opinions

To the editor: Calling it the “New Jerseyization of our beaches” while demonizing coastal engineers, geologists and environmentalists are lining up to oppose terminal groins and jetties to save endangered homes along the N.C. coast (NC Senate Bill 599-Inlet Stabilization Pilot Program).

While playing the Yankee card works well to stir negative connotations, it ignores the fact Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland are doing what New Jersey has done to protect property—and it works.

So why do these guys appeal to emotion instead of facts?

To the editor: It’s hard to imagine a world without heroes.

At the American Red Cross, we work with heroes every day. They’re the backbone of every hometown and represent the essence of our organization. Heroes touch our lives each day—making us feel safe, making us feel proud.

March is Red Cross Month, and the Cape Fear Chapter is excited to take this opportunity to thank our Red Cross family of heroes—volunteers, donors, partners and employees.

To the editor: I am a property owner in Ocean Isle Beach and a 35-year police officer and now police chief in the North.

Stacey Manning, managing editor of the Beacon, writes that the American people are not as scared of the Taliban as they were of communism in years past.

I need to tell the American people I am really, really scared.

I am briefed on a regular basis regarding the Muslim extremists, terrorists and the Taliban. Please let me share with you just one of many issues.