President Donald Trump won't let the best science guide and drive the way we control the COVID-19 virus. Tragically, he is disregarding what he is hearing from his health experts in favor of politics.

Confederate statues have long been a familiar sight in public places. Decade after decade, people have passed by or stood in front of them with mixed emotions about what they represent.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is at it again with his gaffes.

Our community has financial struggles even on a good day. Given what we’re facing right now with unemployment, reduced sales taxes, and other challenges because of COVID-19, it’s hard for me to imagine why the Chowan County Board of Commissioners wouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet for an…

As a former citizen and resident of Elizabeth City I support the petition by fellow former city resident Latonja Flowers to take down the Confederate monuments of hate.

When I read an opinion piece like Martha Johnson’s that blames President Donald Trump for everything it tells me more about the writer then the president. I would caution anyone to look up the facts about these accusations to find the real story.

The article in Sunday’s Daily Advance about the city of Minneapolis’ move to dismantle its police department gave us a new perspective on just how bad it’s gotten in America. Just when we thought things couldn’t sink any lower the Minneapolis City Council found a new depth of depravity to ma…

Recent articles and letters have gotten my attention. I grew up in Elizabeth City and have lived in Pasquotank County my entire life. After marrying in 1971 we moved to the county where we were on city electricity but were not in the city limits.

It`s been said — for he himself has told us — that President Donald Trump has created the most powerful, solid and wonderful economy in the history of Planet Earth.

I read with mounting concern the article in The Daily Advance addressing City Council members making $4,000 more a year than Pasquotank commissioners if the $250-a-month raises council proposed for themselves go through.

We are all in the fight of our lives. Worldwide our common enemy cannot be conquered by guns, tanks or whatever our respective armies have to kill each other with.

I want to thank the employees of the Colonial Cafe for making sure my wife's lost wallet found its way to the Elizabeth City Police Department. I'd also like to thank the two uniformed police officers who hand-delivered it to our home on Sunday afternoon, June 14. The restaurant's employees …

Gov. Roy Cooper's decision to remove the Confederate monuments from the state Capitol based on behavior of the radical mobs is an example of poor leadership. Reconstruction of the history of North Carolina is repulsive to the majority of its citizens.

We have been extremely fortunate to have Rich Olson as our city manager for almost 17 years.

As a retired Marine, I want to thank Cindy Grasty for the letter she wrote regarding the cartoon by Clay Bennett published in your newspaper. The cartoon displayed a Marine saluting the president using a “Loser” sign as President Donald Trump passed by.

In “What’s up in the Albemarle,” I recently read a request by Elizabeth City officials for members of the community to take the WALKEC online survey before it closes on June 30.

Martin Gugano, an elderly protester who was pushed to the ground by Buffalo, New York police officers and suffered a head injury and now fighting for his health in a hospital, has been a Catholic social justice worker for 55 years.