Editor’s note: The following is a statement released by U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., in response to an interview request by The Daily Reflector in Greenville about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It appears here as a letter to the editor.
Every citizen in the 1st District needs to call U.S. Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., and demand that he vote to pass HR 25, the “Fair Tax Act of 2023.”
I was born and raised in Edenton and I remember as a young child going downtown to the “green” in front of the Chowan County Courthouse on East King Street.
Your headline from a October 2021 news article sums up the city of Elizabeth City’s speed hump fiasco: “Council halts speed bump project authorized without their OK.”
I’ve never worked in a bank where I was in charge of the money but I’m pretty sure that someone can account for every dollar at every bank. I’ve also never been in charge of a military armory, but I’m sure someone there is accountable for every weapon and its location. I think that many jobs…
I am writing to thank Elizabeth City-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.
Will the U.S. government function when our national debt is six times what it is now? Before you answer, you might want to explain whether is is functioning now, when the national debt is six times what it was only 22 years and one month ago. That fact, if it is a fact, was printed on the fr…
There is a bigger issue in the misplaced presidential documents conundrum.
There is a bigger issue in the misplaced presidential documents conundrum.
Because of the recent shortage of washers and dryers, doing laundry in the 21st century now looks a little like it did back in the 19th century. The term “laundry day” now hits home like it never did before.
I wanted to share this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with your readers: “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love c…
It looks like Donald Trump, the de facto leader of the Republican party, has passed on some bad habits to his fellow party members. The first habit he passed on is the lying habit. Herschel Walker, the failed Georgia U.S. Senate candidate, and George Santos, the successful New York congressi…
Thanks to the conservatives known as the “Patriot 20,” new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will be held to an “America First” standard. The 20 original holdouts took on the establishment and fought for limited government, accountability and America First values. This was a huge conservative vic…
Regarding Tyler Newman's “Fading forests" column in the Jan. 12 edition of The Perquimans Weekly, the issue applies to all of North Carolina.
It was a pleasure to read in The Daily Advance about the successful registration for the 2023 Paddle for the Border taking place this May. Who would have thought this event would have the popularity it has today?
In August a local writer wrote columns which discussed former President Trump’s handling of classified material and the raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago. An obvious critic of conservatives, the writer went into detail about how Trump mishandled the documents, noting they were not kept in a suf…
Our public schools are not conducive to learning for anyone. The schools’ reliance on technology to teach students is practically criminal.
On Jan. 12 I called the Elizabeth City Public Works Department inquiring about trimming some bushes next to my fence on city property that had grown beyond the fence. Within an hour I met a public works gentleman. We both surveyed the issue of the overgrown bushes. He agreed that they needed…
Hearty congratulations to state Rep. Ed Goodwin, an Edenton Republican and Air Force veteran, on his recent selection as one of four state legislators to receive a North Carolina 2022 Clean Energy Champion Award.
While thousands of Americans were stuck in airports, stuck in their cars and homes, some freezing to death from a blizzard in sub-freezing temperatures, Joe Biden couldn’t be bothered to sign the enormous $1.7 trillion omnibus bill before flying to the Virgin Islands for his vacation.
Congress’ approval rating is about 22%. In a Marist poll in October, 70% of Americans thought the country was going in the wrong direction. Last week, however, when 20 Republican congressional members tried to shake things up a little bit the media, including Fox News, brought the wrath down…
Max Roach, one of the giants of the jazz world, was born in January 1924 in Newland Township in Pasquotank County.
On Saturday, Dec. 31, at about 3:30 a.m., my wife woke me up and said she had strong pain in the area of her right shoulder blade. By 4 a.m., we were on our way to the emergency room at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, and arrived by 4:15 a.m.
Some recent decisions made by our City Council members seem questionable to me. First, they rehired former city manager Montre Freeman. They did this despite a warning from the state Treasurer’s Office about Mr. Freeman’s inability to manage a much smaller city than ours and despite the fact…
I read with great interest an article in the Chowan Herald authored by Tyler Newman. My wife and I currently live in Milton, Delaware, and we are subscribers to the Chowan Herald.
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