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Category: Quick hits
Thursday’s open line
Once again, discussions about recruiting and retaining quality teachers totally avoid the obvious solution: pay them more money for what already they do. Instead, they want to add Saturdays and after-school activities to the workweek and offer teachers mileage to the extra training sessions, something most professionals already have and take for granted. Heck, when I was a record store flunky I got mileage for picking up special orders at the warehouse.
Wednesday’s open line
The average North Carolina family needs $42,841 to meet their basic needs…unless you live in Wake County. According to the 2000 Census, median income in Vance County was $36,389. We doubt it’s gone up since then.
Tuesday’s open line
It really is better to give rather than to receive. Dig down deep into those pockets, friends…
Monday’s open line
According to WRAL, more people are calling for school boards to be given the authority to levy their own taxes. Do any of those people live here?
Weekend open line
State employees may be breaking the law when they delete emails. Get ready for an email server storage space tax.
Thursday’s open line
Was former New York Govenor Eliot Spitzer a simple victim of his own appetites, as is being portrayed in the mainstream press, or was he an unwitting accomplice in a political hatchet job?
HPD bike patrol
Click to enlarge image Top row, left to right: Officers Bishop, Ball, Riddick, Stewart, Long, Perry, and Proctor Bottom row, left to right: Officers Jones, West, and Macialek
Vance Relay for Life wreath fund-raiser
Click to enlarge image For a mere $25 donation, a wreath will be custom-made to your specifications.
Special Good Friday blood drive
Due to the need for all blood types, a special blood drive will be held at the Ambassador Inn and Suites, Friday, March 21, 2008 (Good Friday). The address for the Ambassador Inn is 197 Parham Street and the contact person is LaToya Thomas at 252.492.1126. Free T-shirts will be given to all donors.
Tuesday’s open line
Do we need a slacking law? Would it help? Is it constitutional? Let us know your thoughts about this or anything else on today’s open line.
Etheridge urges change in military mental health
Washington, D.C. —- U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington) on Friday urged Congress to examine the military’s mental health system during a hearing of the House Armed Service Committee’s Military Personnel Subcommittee.
St. Patrick’s Day open line
We don’t have any really good St. Patrick’s Day stories, but if you do, post them here.
Weekend open line
The Daily Dispatch is reporting that a woman was stabbed on Garnett Street yesterday afternoon. Has violence moved from the back streets to Main Street as a reader has suggested to us? Is Henderson to become like the Tombstone, Arizona of old? Let us know your thoughts on this weekend’s open line.
What color do you bleed?
What Color Do You Bleed? is a collaboration between the Triangle area American Red Cross chapters and FOX50 TV.