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Letter: Trump's Project 2025 takes direct aim at Vietnam veteran
The 923-page plan authored by The Heritage Foundation details what former President Trump will do if he's re-elected. This plan will put caps on Medicare and Medicaid benefits. If you get health insurance your benefits and coverage will go down under this plan. The plan calls for the federal government to tax health insurance. These "Trump taxes" would squeeze already tight middle-class budgets. The plan calls for eliminating the U.S....
Trusted Elections Tour makes stop at ECSU
Despite plenty of foreign nations and other bad actors trying to sow chaos and confusion about North Carolina's elections, the state's voting system remains fair, safe and secure, leaders of a cross-partisan group assured local voters Wednesday night. The North Carolina Network for Fair, Safe and Secure Elections brought its Trusted Elections Tour to Elizabeth City, hosting its 17th town hall of the year on the Elizabeth City State University campus. The network says the tours, seven more of which are planned across the state...
City agrees to hire licensed electrician, part-time parks and rec workers
City Council voted last week to allow the public works department to hire a fulltime licensed electrician and the parks and recreation department to hire part-time employees to help with the busy fall youth recreation season. The councilors unanimously agreed to allow Public Utilities Director Dwan Bell to hire the electrician at last week’s council meeting. The electrician, whose name was not released, will be paid a salary of $72,800, or an hourly rate of about $35. ...
Cole proud of Hertford's infrastructure improvements
HERTFORD — Throughout her long career as a judge, U.S. attorney, private attorney and now town manager, Janice Cole says her guiding principle has always been to leave a situation better than she found it. Cole, who will be stepping down as Hertford town manager at the end of next month, believes she’s been able to stay true to that principle with her work for the town over the past two years. ...
Law firm client withdraws offer to buy Edenton's Confederate monument, cites town's 'lack of interest' in offer
EDENTON — The unnamed entity that approached the town of Edenton about purchasing its Confederate monument in exchange for a $50,000 contribution to a Chowan County charity has withdrawn its offer, citing the town’s lack of interest in the proposal. T.C. Morphis Jr., an attorney with the Chapel Hill-based Brough Law Firm, advised Town Manager Corey Gooden by letter Tuesday that his unnamed client is withdrawing its offer to have the Edenton Racial Reconciliation Group donate $50,000 to the Chowan Community Funds Foundation in exchange...
Letter: History shows price controls inefficient, cause shortages give rise to black markets
Throughout history, government-imposed price and wage controls have often led to shortages in market economies by disrupting the natural balance between supply and demand. When prices are artificially kept below market levels, demand typically outstrips supply, resulting in shortages. This pattern has been evident across various historical contexts. In the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire under Emperor Diocletian faced rampant inflation. Diocletian issued the "Edict on Maximum Prices" in 301 AD to combat this, setting maximum prices for goods and wages. However, the prices...
Letter: Need more explanation about what rec bond will do before supporting it
According to last week’s Chowan Herald, the proposed Chowan County recreation bond would raise the county tax rate by 6.5 cents. This would mean a 9.3% increase in Chowan property taxes, now at 69.5 cents per $100 of property valuation. In the case of our family that would result in $633 more in property taxes each year, or almost $53 per month. Before we vote to tax ourselves that much more we will need to understand what the bond will actually accomplish, and look forward to seeing the complete details and justification from Chowan County. JOHN AND ROBIN SAMS Edenton
Mitch Kokai: Stein ad revises history on rape-kit backlog
In his bid to become North Carolina’s next governor, Josh Stein is highlighting a piece of his record as the state’s elected attorney general. An ad titled “Cold Case,” unveiled in August, cites Stein’s work to clear a backlog of untested rape kits. It’s an interesting choice of topics for Stein. Some might question the wisdom of returning the rape kit backlog to the electoral spotlight. In the ad, Robeson...
Editorial: US fails to deter Iranian aid to Russia
If you want another example of vanishing U.S. deterrence, consider the Biden Administration’s failure to stop Iran from providing Russia with ballistic missiles. Citing unidentified U.S. and European officials, the Journal reports that a recent arms shipment from Tehran to Moscow included hundreds of short-range ballistic missiles. Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani this week described how “one part of the barter” with Russia “includes sending missiles” in exchange for food exports and help with sanctions evasion. ...
Deciding where to go when I win the tickets
I rarely enter online contests, but I did so recently through a campaign urging citizens to be registered to vote. I verified my voter registration information and was apparently automatically entered. The contest rewards one lucky person with two tickets to a sporting event with airfare and some spending money. I recognize I am unlikely to win, but just like the rare occasion when I play the lottery, it’s fun to think about what I would do if I did win. I have been doing...
Alexander H. Jones: Stein rendered Robinson's attacks ineffective
Before the campaign began, Mark Robinson’s consultants relished the attacks they planned to launch on their Democratic opponent Josh Stein. Jonathan Felts signaled that his team planned to pillory Stein as a moon-bat radical and the most liberal candidate in North Carolina history. It was going to be energizing and delightful. What Robinson supporters failed to consider was that their candidate’s pathologies made their attack-ad dreams futile from the beginning. The Mark Robinson campaign planned to attack Josh Stein using many of the same tropes...
Pasquotank to review current noise ordinance after complaints about speedway
Pasquotank Attorney Mike Cox will conduct a review of the county’s current noise ordinance after commissioners raised concerns about late-night noise at Dixieland Speedway. The Pasquotank commissioners gave Cox the go-ahead to begin a preliminary review of the county’s current noise ordinance on Monday night. According to county officials, the District Attorney’s Office does not believe Pasquotank’s current ordinance is enforceable and recommends adopting a noise ordinance similar to one in place in Currituck County. ...
County signs off on recommended salary for new elections director
All but one Pasquotank commissioner voted to support the Board of Elections’ recommended salary for the county’s new elections director on Monday. The commissioners voted 6-1 to pay Janae Hedgepeth a salary of $65,813, plus an additional $2,500 reimbursable moving expense during Monday’s Board of Commissioners’ meeting. Commissioner Sean Lavin, who represents the county’s Northern Outside district, cast the lone no vote. Lavin objected after voicing concerns over Hedgepeth’s experience...
Currituck adopts 4-pronged plan for fighting opioid abuse
CURRITUCK — Currituck will hire a full-time treatment services coordinator and appoint a post-overdose response team as part of its overall strategy for combating opioid abuse in the county. The Board of Commissioners approved a four-pronged plan on Monday to address opioid abuse that spends $160,000 in national opioid settlement monies provided by the state, according to a county press release. The biggest chunk of those funds — $100,000 —...
How Clint 'Scrap Iron' Courtney got his nickname
It had to be the wackiest footrace in history. It pitted a ballplayer against a sportswriter, and it was instigated by the legendary pitcher Satchel Paige. To set the stage, the race was run over the impossibly rough terrain of the little railroad station in Colton, California, the night the St. Louis Browns were breaking training camp in 1952. It was run in almost total darkness by two nearsighted bespectacled contestants, each in street clothes and regular shoes. The team was waiting for a special...
Litter of five endangered red wolves dies after sire killed
Editor’s note: This story is being republished with permission from CoastalReview.org The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that a litter of five endangered red wolf pups has died after their father was killed by a vehicle on U.S. Highway 64, leaving fewer than 20 of their species remaining in the wild. The pups were the offspring of a 2-year-old female red wolf named Chance, otherwise designated 2413F, and...
Letter: 'Twilight Zone' episode featuring 'Anthony' probably explains Trumpism best
Our COVID-19 lockdowns had an eerie “Twilight Zone” feel to them. Now, I’m leaning into the 1959-64 TV series to explain another modern phenomenon: Trumpism. I’ve wondered how to explain Trumpism to people like my parents who died long before Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. Explaining to the uninitiated would have once been challenging. Today, I’d simply direct them to “It’s A Good Life,” a 1961 “Twilight Zone”...
Hinton: ECSU should have seat on airport authority
Elizabeth City State University’s aviation science program has grown so much at the airport that ECSU needs its own seat on the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Airport Authority, says Scott Hinton. “Their presence has grown so significantly out there that we think they need a permanent seat at the table,” said Hinton, who is the airport’s director. Hinton provided Pasquotank County commissioners an update on activities at the airport at the board’s...
Cynthia Tucker: Immigrants prove more boon than burden
JD Vance is still drawing fire — appropriately so — for his misogynous comments about “childless cat ladies.” When Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris on Instagram, she signed it with the phrase that he had hung around his own neck: “childless cat lady.” But beneath the cruelty and casual sexism trafficked by Vance is a substantive concern: the reproductive rate in the United States — indeed, throughout the wealthier countries — has dropped below replacement levels. In other words, more Americans are...
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Marching for life
The human-rights issue of our lives is abortion. Clearly not everyone sees it that way. It's buried in euphemisms about women's health. But unborn children still die. The March for Life happens every January, marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court case which legalized abortion in all three trimesters, which was overturned in 2022. The march doesn't typically get a lot of media coverage. For years, the attention it did...
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