Saturday, March 31, 2018
Justice, not blame: A solution to this epidemic requires shared perspectives
You do this job long enough, it starts to come home with you. You get to know the people you report on. You try, near as you can, to put yourself in the person's shoes and see things from your...Published: Mar 31, 2018 9:41 PM Full Editorial
Monday, March 26, 2018
Fleet of feet: Cures for the Colors welcomes everyone to step up to the challenge
It could be fun. Running is seldom a good idea unless someone -- or something -- is chasing you. OK, that's rotten advice. Running is great exercise and can do wonders for a person's mental health, maybe due to the...Published: Mar 26, 2018 10:23 PM Full Editorial
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Lasting honor: An airman's sacrifice 50 years ago still resonates today
It is still a couple of weeks away, but to learn that two Thursdays from now the Patriot Guard will be escorting home the remains of an airman shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War has us thinking. Perhaps...Published: Mar 25, 2018 10:38 PM Full Editorial
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Hoops heaven: Basketball brings a happy respite this year more than ever
Gun protests. Banned transgenders. A last-minute spending bill and the will-he-won't-he saga surrounding the president's alleged musings of firing Bob Mueller. A relatively quiet weekend of late, but still enough to send us reaching for the remote, scrambling to switch...Published: Mar 24, 2018 9:22 PM Full Editorial
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Not paper targets: America's youth seize control of narrative on guns
David Berkowitz shot and killed six people and wounded several others between the summers of 1976 and '77, because a barking dog told him to do it. He is dubbed a serial killer. Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd...Published: Mar 22, 2018 11:00 PM Full Editorial
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Quiet on the set: Maxwell Center needs a hotel, but the show doesn't end there
If you build it, they will come. Right actor. Wrong movie. While admittedly it will be doubly hard to attract major conventions and acts to our fair county without a hotel adjacent to the multimillion-dollar complex built to house such...Published: Mar 20, 2018 10:57 PM Full Editorial
Monday, March 19, 2018
Finn's tale: The term 'rescue' is relative at best
He came out of the woods. The first thought was a neighbor who'd been moving out that day had mistakenly left him behind. But on a return trip for a left-behind sofa, that notion was proven false. Knocking on doors...Published: Mar 19, 2018 11:42 PM Full Editorial
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Huge gift: Anonymous donor clearly knows the value of literacy
Anyone willing to donate more than half a million dollars to fund a literacy program benefiting the poorest population of a county clearly knows the true value of money. Whether it was one person, a consortium of the civic-minded or...Published: Mar 18, 2018 11:02 PM Full Editorial
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Vote for Raytrell: Boys and Girls Club mentor deserves national accolade
We need more Raytrells. Here is a guy, not from this county, brought to the area for a job 17 years ago, who found his niche not in the work he was contracted to do but in volunteering. After eight...Published: Mar 15, 2018 10:26 PM Full Editorial
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Lessons: Students put into practice what they've learned of past movements
In one regard, if in no other, the National School Walkout demonstration in which students left their classrooms for 17 minutes on Wednesday to mark the 17 lives lost a month prior in Parkland, Florida, was nothing short of a...Published: Mar 14, 2018 10:30 PM Full Editorial
Monday, March 12, 2018
The pressure: Each of us has to find a way to keep it all in perspective
Stress is a killer. These days we all seem consumed with work, politics, social media and the pressures of paying for more "things" while valuing less what truly matters. Maybe that is an overreach, but that appears to be the...Published: Mar 12, 2018 9:12 PM Full Editorial
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Pre-Madness: NCAA puts the framework for excitement in place
Prepare to have your brackets busted. Unless Virginia or Villanova cut the net, any other team's fandome's 'I-told-you-so's' at the end of this dance just won't ring true. It's not because the field isn't any good -- it's because so...Published: Mar 11, 2018 10:36 PM Full Editorial
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Time for a talk: School board's move was abrupt, but class sizes do need discussion
County commissioner Joe Daughtery said Tuesday that he and other commissioners were "shocked and disappointed" at the school board's recent 5-2 decision to begin implementing class size reduction measures despite a recent reprieve fought diligently for and won by our...Published: Mar 7, 2018 10:44 PM Full Editorial
Monday, March 5, 2018
Sharp focus: Social issues fill the frame on Oscar night
Far be it from us to imply that Hollywood is any sort of place to look to for political guidance or moral instruction. But socially speaking, and partly because it has been home to it for much of its history,...Published: Mar 5, 2018 10:59 PM Full Editorial
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Good roots: City and county prove they're fertile ground for growth
Destination Wayne. Now that the Maxwell Center is in place and open for business, and downtown Goldsboro is undergoing a kind of renaissance, it seems the county seat is poised to become a mecca of sorts. But for whom? The...Published: Mar 4, 2018 10:19 PM Full Editorial
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Superheroes: 'Black Panther' inspires; so, too, a ticket buyer's generosity
Sometimes a film moves beyond the big screen. Sitting here contemplating all of the films one might consider pivotal to a particular time frame, the list grows longer rather than shorter. Reach back as far as "On the Waterfront," "Casablanca"...Published: Mar 3, 2018 9:28 PM Full Editorial