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Today's Opinions

  • Tag & Tax Together getting ready to break our routine

    This will probably be a good idea—once we get used to it.
    Not many people like change, not at first anyway.
    We North Carolina drivers had gotten used to getting our license tags at one time and paying our vehicle-tax bills at another.
    All that’s getting ready to change.
    The first combined tag-and-tax notices will soon arrive in North Carolina mailboxes for vehicle-registration bills that are due in July.

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  • Manhunt makes for compelling television and uplifting ending

    I never hear the Navy Hymn without thinking about President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
    I was thinking about that Friday night while waiting for the second Boston Marathon bomber to be captured. I was thinking about being glued to the television in 1963 and all the other major news events we’ve watched unfold “live” on television.

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  • Moods change with the weather, but it gives us something to talk about

    Just when you thought it was spring, a blanket of blustery chill descends, the central heat kicks on, and you have to get back under a blanket (as I sit writing this under my faux-fur blankie, the one I’ve been carrying around with me since November).

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  • A veteran says no to another memorial

    To the editor:
    Once again, the Sunset Beach Town Council is determined to spend our precious tax dollars on something Sunset Beach taxpayers don’t want or need.
    Once again, only Carol Scott had the courage to say no. Once again, the vote was 4 to 1.
    I am proud to be a decorated Vietnam combat veteran. I was an Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter pilot for almost two years.
    I was wounded three times, but I staunchly oppose the waste of our tax dollars for yet another veterans’ memorial.

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  • You can ask Kay, but don’t expect answers

    To the editor:
    Sen. Kay Hagan sponsored a Twitter town hall on April 9 asking constituents to directly engage her with questions on veterans’ and military family issues.
    It should have been titled “#AskKayOnlyIfYouAgreeWithHer.”
    The senator answered ONLY a few soft-ball, pre-planned questions.
    Sadly, she ignored multiple questions of significance about Second Amendment issues for veterans, answers on the four dead Americans in Benghazi, troop support in North Carolina, sequester issues and the like.

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  • Link proven between meat, heart disease

    To the editor:
    The new link between meat consumption and heart disease, discovered by Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, is just the latest evidence linking meat consumption to killer diseases that cripple, and then kill, 1.3 million Americans annually.
    Hazen’s study showed that carnitine, an amino acid contained in all meat products, is a major factor in heart failure.

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  • Coastal living costs

    To the editor:
    Last week, a contributor to this page made a number of flawed assertions about homeowners’ rates characterized as “facts.”
    Our primary catastrophic exposure in coastal North Carolina is the winds, rain, wave wash and floods (often an excluded peril) associated with tropical storms and hurricanes. Take little comfort if there has not been a significant weather event in years—it will occur. Local government, insurance companies and homeowners plan for that eventuality.

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  • Proud of church for taking a stand

    To the editor:
    In his recent letter, John Comparetto attacks St. Brendan Church for its campaign to reduce gun violence.
    By focusing his argument on the [Catholic] pedophilia scandal, Comparetto tries to deflect attention from the debate. English composition students learn to avoid this fallacy in logic. A skilled writer/debater doesn’t attack people; he presents and defends ideas.
    Newtown killer Adam Lanza was a law-abiding citizen before he picked up assault rifles and high-capacity magazines legally purchased by his law-abiding mother.

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