Keep our grandfather’s fire burning Someone had just heard Tom Lambeth’s recent remarks to the North Caroliniana Society, which was presenting him with its annual award for service to our state, and said, “Everybody in North Carolina should have heard that speech.” Lambeth, longtime former executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, used the occasion to talk about some of the people and some of the stories that help define North Carolina and its history for him. L...
New day The political strategy of divisiveness is thriving in this country, and neither party has the stronger grip.
Recently, William Barber, the president of the North Carolina office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, enlisted in this type of warfare, calling on the masses to organize non-violent protests of Republicans who are firmly in control of state government, with Pat McCrory in the governor’s mansion and s...
Amnesty a dangerous path A closer look at our government’s “not separating families” policy will reveal an aspect of that policy that will be far reaching into future generations. Pointing this country in a direction that most Americans — blacks, whites, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians and even those of no political persuasion at all — would never support if they understood all the underlying facts of this policy.
This policy grants amnesty to as...
Bladen Journal time capsule … — April 26, 1967: Donnie White of Bladenboro takes first place in showmanship with his steer at the 16th annual Market Stock Show and Sale in Wilmington.
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— April 26, 1978: Bladen County Sheriff John B. Allen, 72, is in satisfactory condition at Wake medical Center after two convicts he was transporting to Central prison in Raleigh choked and overpowered him to escape. The two felons — Donnie Ray Hall, 26, and Eddie Haim, 35 — were...
A very moving weekend For a variety of reasons, it’s been a handful of weeks since I’ve been moved to fill this space — none of which are necessary to go into. But this past weekend, that all changed.
I’ve been properly moved.
What that means, actually, is that I experienced a particularly awesome chain of events — both personally and within a group. And it came during the every-other-month excursion to Savannah, Ga.
A few weeks ago my oldest daughter Shanno...
Golden Brown Bladen County has quite a number of folks who have gone on to make their little corner of North Carolina proud in a wide variety of professional fields.
There are the athletes like Saquan Johnson, Desmond Bryant and Ann Hancock; and there are others like Lee Priest, Matthew Brown, Nigel Adams and Starlette Smith Holguin — just to name a few.
But none have a mural.
Curtis Brown does.
Brown, a graduate of East Bladen High in 1974, went ...
Sensible drug testing for Work First cash, training Government has truly become Big Daddy in many people’s minds. Nothing proves this claim more than recent arguments on the floor of the North Carolina Senate regarding SB 594.
The proposed legislation is simple. It requires a drug test in order for individuals to receive Work First cash benefits and job training. However, to hear liberal politicians rail against the law, one would think that supporters of the legislation were forcing the...
How should North Carolina fund infrastructure? My father was born in 1922 on a farm in rural Ohio. Horses and carriages were as common as cars. When the first road was built it was tolled, meaning only those who paid the gatekeeper at the entrance to the road could use it.
This is how early roads were financed. If you used a road, you paid for it, on the spot! In economics, we call such payments user fees. But as car ownership expanded and road usage boomed, stopping drivers at every...
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