The Jensen Project, an Ohio-based nonprofit organization working to halt sexual violence, shared the following column in support of local efforts to observe January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month and in response to the recent death of 16-year-old Greenville girl who had been the victim of trafficking. Policies the column promotes for Ohio can apply to North Carolina, the group suggested.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
The Jensen Project, an Ohio-based nonprofit organization working to halt sexual violence, shared the following column in support of local efforts to observe January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month and in response to the recent death of 16-year-old Greenville girl who had been the victim of trafficking. Policies the column promotes for Ohio can apply to North Carolina, the group suggested.
Holding an impeachment trial of Donald Trump is like killing an ant with a sledge hammer. It will alienate his base even more from the truth the left sees.
I cannot understand why so many cyclists are allowed to stay on the road.
Sunday, January 24, 2021
As Joe Biden takes office as the nation’s 46th president, one number should be deeply disturbing to anyone who cares about the health of democracy. That number is 32: the percentage of Americans who told an ABC/Washington Post poll that Biden “did not legitimately win” the November election. The doubters include 7 of 10 Republicans and 6 of 10 self-identified conservatives.
Four years ago, Americans heard from a new president about what he was against; what the nation needed to fear and reject.
President Donald Trump is finally gone — finished and washed up in politics in a single term.
President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. An ambitious agenda lies ahead for the new Democratic administration. And yet there are signs that some Democrats’ obsession with Donald Trump — the condition known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS — will remain as strong, or perhaps become stronger, now that Trump has left the White House.
Sunday, January 24, 2021
President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. An ambitious agenda lies ahead for the new Democratic administration. And yet there are signs that some Democrats’ obsession with Donald Trump — the condition known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS — will remain as strong, or perhaps become stronger, now that Trump has left the White House.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Joe Biden is now the 46th president of the U.S. But is he really the president of the U.S.? Well he was sworn in at the Capitol by Chief Justice John Roberts and his new office is the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House. But is he really the president?
President Joe Biden has sent a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill to Congress that includes an increase in the minimum wage to $15 per hour. It is expected to come up for a vote in February.
Friday, January 22, 2021
As of January 18, North Carolina has received about a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Nearly 330,000 of those doses have been injected into the arms of North Carolinians.
The great gift this Christmas was that help was on the way. The vaccine was a welcome gift 10 months into the pandemic. It is no exaggeration that North Carolina’s vaccination rollout started poorly.
This letter is in response to the letter, titled “Wishing for simpler, kinder, more elegant times,” published in the Jan. 17 edition.
If you find what I share with you offensive then you have not done your homework and are one of those who take what is handed to you.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
The unquestioned allegiance to Donald Trump by many in the nation’s evangelical movement has been one of the most astonishing and damaging consequences of his presidency.
It was the summer of 1987 when I first stepped inside the United States Capitol to work instead of visit.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
As an old speechwriter, I’m a close reader of political speeches. Especially important speeches, like Gov. Roy Cooper’s inaugural address.
As the new Biden-Harris administration assumes power, the most basic American freedom of speech and expression is under unprecedented threat.
His name may be a nod to the Founding Father and fourth president, but Rep. Madison Cawthorn is no James Madison.
In an earlier letter to the editor, I posed the question: What will we have in a Biden–Harris administration?
Arnold Schwarznegger, the former GOP governor of California, likened the attack on the Capitol Jan. 6 to the murderous rampage by Nazis during Kristallnacht in 1938. He says, “I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. Growing up, I was surrounded by broken …
As a pastor in our community, I often ask people what they miss about not being able to gather for worship as we used to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout our history, presidential inauguration day usually has been a celebratory time. Even if your candidate lost the most recent election, there’s still something uplifting about the crowds, the pageantry and the soaring rhetoric of a presidential inauguration. The day’s events help re…
Dismayed by all the violence and division in our precious country, I wrote the following poem I entitled, “Assumptions”:
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