Category: Opinion

About four years ago, in answer to objections about anonymity on Home in Henderson I started a sister site called Who Is Home in Henderson? where users were required to register and use their real names. It was a total failure. Why, you ask? No one posted on it, and it had less than one-tenth the readership of Home in Henderson. I took it down after a year because I was tired of such a dramatic failure staring me in …

For those of you who keep track of such things, today is Pearl Harbor Day. For my grandparents, it was the day that changed everything — what we look back on as a “transformative experience” when the emotional overtones are absent. Here’s your open line.

We wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment expressed in the editorial in yesterday’s Daily Dispatch. Our problems (like crime) are best addressed when they are tackled in the open rather than treated like the elephant in the room that nobody sees. Here’s your open line.

We were slack-jawed with amazement to read on Your Voice in Oxford yesterday that the Granville County Commission voted itself pension benefits. It was our understanding that the reason for the low pay and lack of perks was to keep governance in the hands of everyday citizens rather than career politicians. Naive of us, we suppose. In an era of belt-tightening, budget cuts, layoffs, and economic uncertainty, it’s nice to know that you can still vote yourself some piece of …

I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve been “motivated” exactly once in my entire life to bring a sign to a public meeting to state my point of view. If my sign had been refused, I’d have been really “motivated”. That sign cost me a small fortune. Here’s your open line.

Kudos to Mike Rainey of the Henderson City Council for putting loyalty over the bottom line when he led the vote to keep retired city workers at their current level of insurance. If it costs me an extra buck or two in my tax levy, so be it. At least I know it’s money going to someone who earned it. Here’s your open line.

Perhaps the General Assembly could make it a goal to modernize the Veterans’ Day observance in North Carolina so that it falls on a Friday or a Monday. We don’t think it will diminish the contributions of our soldiers, and a day off in the middle of the week is just too disruptive for the students. Here’s your open line.

Vote your conscience. Here’s your open line.

It’s probably not a coincidence that American elections fall so closely after Halloween. After all, that’s when the masks come off. Here’s your open line.