On Monday, July 26,2010, WIZS was gracious enough to allow me to be on the air with concerns about the city’s proposal for changes to the High Speed Rail plan. Instead of a written article this week, I invite you to click here and go to “Town Talk” and click on Monday, July 26 to hear the program.
Category: Opinion
To the editor: More direction needed
After reading the flier “Your New Weekly Curbside Trash Service & Every Other Week Curbside Recycling Service Guidelines”, there are a few things that are not clear to me and maybe not to you, either:
Elissa Yount: What’s important
One of the pleasures of watching the Tour de France on television is seeing the wonderful buildings and historic properties of the villages the bikers pass through.
Elissa Yount: Lessons from WWII
Reading about World War II is a passion that I share with many friends and kin.
To the editor: Nation needs HSR
I have ridden the train twice in the past twelve months and I plan to take the train again this year.
Friday/weekend open line
We learned today about the drug khat for the first time last night while compiling the police blotter. While we’re obviously proponents of lifelong learning, this is probably knowledge that Henderson would have been better off without. Here’s your open line.
Friday/weekend open line
I live in a household where firearms are handled on a near-daily basis.
Wednesday’s open line
I can’t tell you how disappointed I am to discover that I’m not eligible to bid on a Vance County Schools mobile classroom. My first teaching assignment was in one of those mobile classrooms. I loved it. It had air conditioning when the regular building didn’t. It wasn’t great when it rained, though. Here’s your open line.
Elissa Yount: Seeing ourselves as others see us
It was a long and winding road that brought many of the graduates who finished high school 45 years ago at Henderson High School back together again last weekend for a reunion that takes place every five years.
Tuesday’s open line
One of the things about summer vacation is that it gives me an opportunity to catch up with the news that happens outside of Henderson — which can be pretty depressing. One uplifting feature is that compared to about five-sixths of the rest of the world, we still have it pretty good. Here’s your open line.
Gateway CDC & Walmart kick off volunteerism July 3
by Gary Morgan, CDC Administrator Gateway CDC Executive Director Gary Morgan and Walmart Distribution Center General Manager Maurice Gray have united to declare war on the poverty and oppression that has held a stranglehold on the City of Henderson and Vance County.
Elissa Yount: Piddle in the middle
“If you have one leg in tomorrow and one leg in yesterday then that leaves you to piddle on today.”
Elissa Yount: Straight out of Mayberry
Some of the events that have been happening around Henderson lately would make good scripts for episodes of the Andy Griffith Show. What would Andy have said?
To the editor: Results of council meeting
The following is the result of a meeting of members of the Henderson City Council.
To the editor: Defend our rights, get out to vote
Let me start by saying this isn’t a campaign ploy.
Friday/weekend open line
“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper [sic] to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” E.K. Hornbeck Inherit the Wind
Elissa Yount: All the right ingredients
This past winter a cousin of mine from Houston was visiting.
Tuesday’s open line
I am pleased to report that my student who was shot twice on Saturday is doing well. We shared a brief visit in the hospital yesterday afternoon. He is in a lot of pain, but he is facing that pain with a bravery and an inner strength that I find truly humbling. This young man is not the first of my students to be a victim of violence, not by a long shot. In the eleven years I’ve taught in …
Memorial Day open line
Let us take a moment to remember all of those who have died so that we might live free. On a personal note, the nine year old boy who was shot on Lone Street on Saturday is one of my students. Please keep him in your thoughts. Here’s your open line.