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Today's Opinions

  • Starting county meetings with closed session is best for me ... or, I mean, everyone

    County commissioners have begun planning for the next fiscal year – receiving updates on department needs, considering funding requests and creating legislative items to push for.

    Since they are making plans for the new fiscal year and how they will run things in 2015-16, I want to speak out on one policy that needs to be rolled back to 2013-14.

    Re-arrange the board meetings so the closed session is first thing on the agenda once more.

    I don’t ask this selfishly…

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  • Shallotte Lions Club promotes better vision, serves blind

    To the editor:

    The Shallotte Lions Club meets on the first and third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Golden Corral in Shallotte off U.S. 17. The Lions Club is one of the largest service club organizations in the world. Our motto is: We serve.” Those who we serve are visually impaired or blind.

    The Shallotte Lions sponsor a mobile eye screening van for three of our local schools and the community. Our next screening is Feb. 14 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Vision Square on Main Street in Shallotte and is free to the public.

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  • Thank you, Autumn Care of Shallotte staff

    To the editor:

    I wanted to publicly thank the staff at Autumn Care of Shallotte for their excellent care of my husband, Edward, during his 13-month stay at Autumn Care. Because of his advanced stage of dementia I had to make that dreaded decision that I could no longer give him 24/7 quality care at home. Admitting him into the hands of strangers was very frightening. I found that Edward not only was taken care of in a very professional way, but he also had the love and respect from the staff.

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  • Lots to love about Brunswick County

    Last week was easily the busiest so far this year for me with two fantastic community events just days apart, both at the Brunswick County Association of Realtors building at 101 Stone Chimney Place in Supply.

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  • Medicare Advantage disenrollment period ends Feb. 14

    By Jennifer Prince Sherman

    Guest Columnist

    Jan. 1 to Feb. 14 marks the annual Medicare Advantage disenrollment period. During this time, a Medicare beneficiary enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan may leave his or her plan and return to Original Medicare. If you switch to Original Medicare during this period, you will have until Feb. 14 to also join a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan to ensure you will have drug coverage in 2015. Your prescription drug coverage will begin the first day of the month after the drug plan gets your enrollment form.

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  • You decide: What are the impacts of tax changes?

    By Mike Walden

    Guest Columnist

     

    Get ready for some tax debates in 2015. At the national level, pundits think a proposal to lower the federal income tax rate may be one piece of common ground between President Obama and the Congress. Here in North Carolina, Round 2 of tax changes — focusing on lower tax rates and a broader tax base — may be debated in the General Assembly.

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  • Calabash Lions Club has so much to offer

    To the editor:

    The Calabash Lions Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Calabash Fire Department, and the third Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at the Sunrise Pancake House.

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  • Rep. Iler’s presentation on education incomplete

    To the editor:

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