Recently, Henderson’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan was praised by the Daily Dispatch for several reasons.
Category: Opinion
Elissa Yount: Don’t assume
In the early days of Clean Up Henderson there was a wide-spread assumption among management and workers in Henderson city government that absolutely nothing could be done about cleaning up around the railroad that runs through Henderson.
Elissa Yount: Money talks — Are you listening?
If you are interested in the link between money and politics on the state level, then you should be interested on the local level as well.
Wednesday’s open line
You know, the northerners pick on us when we close down for a six-inch snowstorm, but clearly it doesn’t take all that much more snow in the grand scheme of things to send them scurrying for all of the bread, milk, eggs, and toilet paper they can carry out of their Acme Supermarkets. Until they smarten up and head for more congenial climates, we wish them well. Here’s your open line.
Elissa Yount: We know they know
There are things you know. There are things you know you don’t know. Then there are things you don’t know — so you don’t know you don’t know. If you think about it, you know these things.
To the editor: Our actions count
I can’t help but ponder the great question of why people are so mean to each other.
Elissa Yount: The Southerland Mill saga
On November 14, 2005 Robert Southerland came before the Henderson City Council in an open meeting and offered to purchase the Southerland Mill property for $35,000.
Monday’s open line
Once again we have the perfect storm of three overlapping meetings of elected bodies in Vance County. This means that your friendly neighborhood news providers will be hard-pressed to provide any kind of coverage, much less adequate coverage, of what your government is doing. We’ve been harping on this issue for years, and we presume that if anyone really cared about it, something would have been done to resolve the issue. Ignorance may be bliss, but not knowing what going …
Wednesday’s open line
Observation: Daytime TV stinks. How does anyone stand it? I’m more than ready to go back to school. Here’s your open line.
Elissa Yount: In the bleak mid-winter
In the bleak mid-winter, with snow all around, there is no better time to be looking forward to a brighter tomorrow.
Elissa Yount: Are you confused yet?
With all of the instant access that is available on the Internet, you may find this information redundant.
Tuesday’s open line
Yesterday’s marathon session of the Henderson City Council has made me a proponent not of term limits for elected officials, but time limits. Here’s your open line.
Elissa Yount: Here we go again
Here we go again! The city council is going to be asked to approve a zoning request to put truck stops in all areas zoned industrial.
To the editor: The Silver Meteor
As a young man growing up on a small tobacco farm in rural Vance County, Warrenton Road, Oliver Drive North, working the field next to the Seaboard Railway (Where Earl Dickerson’s Garage & NC Baptist Men Disaster Relief Storage Facility are located) plowing that field with a mule, a streamline train would fly by and the passenger train was called “The Silver Meteor”.
Friday/weekend open line
We saw in yesterday’s Daily Dispatch that the bid on the Southerland Mill Pond land is up to $170,940. Before you start crowing, remember that the $51,000 that the city originally paid for the property in 1953 has the same buying power as $401,563 today. We’re still a long way from breaking even. Here’s your open line.
To the editor: Ice to Eskimos
Editor’s Note: This letter-to-the-editor appeared in The Daily Dispatch some days ago with several lines missing, according to the author. We were asked to run it in its unadulterated form. In late 2005 and early 2006, Vance County officials asked us to sign up for county water.
Elissa Yount: Mean what you say
In politics, people want you to say what you mean, mean what you say, and not be mean about it.
To the editor: County commission fillet
Editor’s Note: The following letter was recently published in The Daily Dispatch; however, several lines were omitted. The author asked that we run it in its entirety. Fishermen will tell you that the best way to judge the quality of a piece of fish is to fillet the fish. Lay it open and you’ll be able to tell if you want to bake, broil, fry, or feed it to possums.
Elissa Yount: Suspicious minds
While listening to the radio on January 8, 2010, the 75th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s birth, I realized that one of his songs hit the nail on the head about what is wrong in this community.
Wednesday’s open line
Kudos to Henderson City Council member Mike Inscoe’s meticulous deconstruction of the sample sanitation services contract currently in hand with the city from Waste Industries, Inc. Although the collection of rubbish may seem trivial in the grand scheme of things, it is more likely to affect our lives than most of the things we hear about on the evening news. Here’s your open line.