Here is a link to the speech that President Barack Obama is scheduled to make today to America’s students at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Here’s your open line.
Category: Quick hits
Labor Day open line
The new carts at our local Wal-Mart keep giving me static electricity shocks. Is anyone else having the same problem? Enjoy your shopping sales and barbecues. Here’s your open line.
Friday/weekend open line
Well, it looks like we’ve hit a doldrum in the news department, but I suspect that there’s still lots to talk about, with the upcoming city election and all. Have at, and play nice.
Thursday’s open line
The great science fiction writer Roger Zelazny once wrote that any bureaucracy that is allowed to exist long enough inevitably becomes a parody of its own function. He should know. He worked for the Social Security Administration until he could publish enough to feed his family. Case and point: The state of North Carolina allots entities money and then makes them send it back so that the funds can show up as a revenue stream on a balance sheet. If …
Council to meet in special session on sanitation
The Henderson City Council will hold a special work session on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in its chamber at City Hall located at 134 Rose Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina. The agenda for the meeting involves a discussion of privatization of city sanitation services.
County public safety committee meets Friday
There will be a Vance County Board of Commissioners’ Public Safety Committee meeting on Friday, September 4 at 12:30 p.m. in the office of County Manager Jerry Ayscue. Ayscue’s office is located in the County Administration Building at 122 Young Street in Henderson, North Carolina. The purpose is to discuss the EMS Medical Director position and a 911 grant.
Wednesday’s open line
If you bought anything yesterday, you probably noticed that sales tax has gone up by a percentage point. Is it a necessary evil, or evil packaged as necessity? Let us know your thoughts on today’s open line.
Board of ed. finance committee to meet
The Vance County Board of Education’s Finance Committee will meet today, September 2, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. in the Superintendent’s Conference Room at the Administrative Services Center at 1724 Graham Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina. No agenda was given for the meeting.
Labor Day schedule change for trash collection
This from Public Works Director Linda Leyen:
Tuesday’s open line
Do we have any readers who are police scanner fanatics? Are you suffering any withdrawal since the city went to the 800 MHz VIPER system? Let us know on today’s open line.
Monday’s open line
It’s the first Monday morning with students of the school year. Now that’s a tough room. Here’s your open line.
Friday/weekend open line
Perhaps we could take some time the weekend to jot down a few questions you’d like for us to present to your Henderson City Council candidates in the next few days. Send your submissions to election2009@homeinhenderson.com so we can get on with it! Here’s your open line.
Comment posters can now edit their comments
Ever make a comment that you wish you could take back? Ever realize after clicking the “Submit Comment” button that you’ve misspelled something, misstated something, or written something that in retrospection doesn’t make sense?
Board of ed. to hold called meeting Aug. 31
The Vance County Board of Education will hold a called meeting on Monday, August 31, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center located at 1724 Graham Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina. The purpose of the meeting is to provide members with a budget update.
Thursday’s open line
We were relieved to see that our friends over at The Daily Dispatch changed their web hosting. We were missing a lot of news. We are also quite surprised to see that they have entered the world of blogging by allowing readers to comment on news articles. Two news blogs in one town? Who says Henderson isn’t progressive? Here’s your open line.
Share & save Home in Henderson
Ever wanted to share a link on Home in Henderson with a friend, colleague, or family member, but been unable to figure it out?
Board of ed. building & grounds committee to meet
The Building & Grounds Committee of the Vance County Board of Education will meet on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. in the Administrative Services Center at 1724 Graham Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina. No agenda for the meeting was provided.
Wednesday’s open line
Issues having to do with how Henderson’s ethnic groups relate to one another is obviously a subject on which emotions run high, to put it mildly. However, we caution our comment posters to temper their words by asking themselves if they would speak them aloud to an audience that is as ethnically diverse as the community at large. Remember, under the Communications Decency Act, you are the publisher of your comment posts, not Home in Henderson. Blog responsibly, because you …
Tuesday’s open line
Well, the dreaded first day of school is here. Wake ’em up and send then into the loving arms of this year’s teacher cadre. Like I tell my kids, it could be worse. They could be cutting bananas in the hot sun. Learning is a luxury.