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Opinion

Not all locations have received fair treatment

Local Commentaries

As the vote draws closer, with some of the past actions of the district, lack of answers to the concerns that are being raised by the communities, and the misleading and skewed data from the district in the FAQs, one has to wonder if the district has a personal agenda or prejudice against ...

Educational options benefit community

Local Commentaries

Linda Jordan Loomis raises heartfelt and valid concerns about the potential merger of Youngsville and Eisenhower High Schools (Dec. 21). Change is never easy, especially when it impacts students, families, and communities deeply connected to their local schools. However, school districts ...

Other voices: Homeless boom appears in the blue states

Our Opinion

In case you missed the pre-holiday news dump, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that homelessness this year hit a record. Add this to President Biden’s regrettable legacies, though it’s notable that progressive states accounted for most of the increase. HUD’s ...

View from Hickory Height: The people, recipes of my life

Local Commentaries

Today I am thinking of my mother-in-law. I am not sure why, but I am. Both my mother and mother-in-law died just before Christmas. For several years we lived on the farm in a trailer. She let me have a section of her freezer to keep my grocery things. I also used her cellar for my canned goods. ...

Rounding Third: Watch out for the credit card sharks

Local Commentaries

Last Friday, when the phone rang, the caller I.D. read Barclay Bank. Uh-oh. That’s not good. Barclay Bank is synonymous with only one thing for me – my MasterCard. The only time any credit card company has ever called on the phone was to inform me of fraudulent activity. The last time ...

Our Opinion: Decision about weight loss drugs not easy

Our Opinion

Americans elect their leaders on the premise that those individuals will be capable of making the right decisions on difficult, as well as easy, issues. An issue on which members of Congress might have to render a decision, possibly in the early weeks of the new legislative session, is the ...