Editorials

Money chirps

Editorial: Membership on state commissions seems strongly coincidental with the hunt for campaign money.
Modified: 11/19/09 06:25:31 AM

In the Army now

Editorial: The U.S. Army's Special Operations Command trains elite soldiers in the Green Berets, Rangers and other units that specialize in behind-enemy-lines combat.
Modified: 11/19/09 06:25:45 AM

Protection

Editorial: At the rate H1NI flu vaccine is showing up at clinics in North Carolina, a swine flu shot could be high on people's Christmas lists.
Modified: 11/18/09 07:11:27 AM

The heartbreak

Editorial: Shaniya Davis was a cute, innocent child born into troubled circumstances not of her making.
Modified: 11/18/09 07:11:49 AM

A call answered

Editorial: The sad news is that requests for help from the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina are up 30 to 60 percent in that 34-county area.
Modified: 11/17/09 04:55:28 AM

On his feet

Editorial: In two terms as state treasurer, Richard Moore did a good job of protecting the state's public employee pension fund and generally was on the side of average citizens. So Moore should have expected the questions and scrutiny he's now getting.
Modified: 11/17/09 04:56:25 AM

Good for her

Editorial: She's not quite the oldest person in North Carolina, but Trudie Martin of Winston-Salem is close enough. And at age 108 - her birthday was Oct. 19 - she's not done showing folks how to live.
Modified: 11/15/09 05:25:59 PM

Slow when flashing

Editorial: There's one certain way to avoid a repeat of the comedy of errors that might result in Raleigh having to replace or at least modify all of its school zone signs. Forget about signs listing the hours that school is in session.
Modified: 11/15/09 05:27:20 PM

Lesson for today

Editorial: Once the word got out (through an N&O report) that Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro was offering students the chance to "buy" some points toward better grades, the idea was properly flunked.
Modified: 11/15/09 05:34:23 PM

Hospital plus

Editorial: Bill Atkinson, the affable yet intense CEO of the WakeMed health organization, has some ambitious goals for a large area surrounding WakeMed's headquarters that deserve careful attention.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:18:04 AM

N.C.'s Depression

Editorial: It's the furthest thing from a "blockbuster" exhibition. No Monets are on the museum's menu. But a modestly scaled display of photographs from the 1930s at the N.C. Museum of History is the real deal - make that, the real New Deal.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:18:34 AM

Light shows

Editorial: Aurora has shortened her working day lately, but we can forgive her, for she is now painting some of her most spectacular sunrises and sunsets of the year.
Modified: 11/15/09 06:18:49 AM

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