Thanks, Kate. For everything.
We held off on writing this until all hope was lost. In the back of our minds, we thought maybe she would have a change of heart and rescind her resignation. Well, perhaps it was less of a thought and...
Category: Commentary
Dressed in camouflage, Aycock students honor lives lost in East Carteret plane crash
A week ago, they were strangers — the students who attend Wayne County’s largest public high school and the roughly 600 teenagers walking the halls of a facility that serves 13 “Down East” communities in Carteret County. In Pikeville, they...
Enough is enough. ROD Constance Coram needs to go.
There’s a time to tell it like it is. And when it comes to the county’s ongoing debacle with the Register of Deeds office, it is long past time. So it was somewhat disturbing — but not at all surprising...
School Board eyes pay raises for classified employees, but district still won’t release expensive attorney’s bills — even to a board member
If you watched the live stream of the special called Wayne County Board of Education meeting Wednesday, you know that the board’s top budget priority — other than keeping the district’s budget balanced — is coming up with a way...
Register of Deeds’ behavior at commission meeting is latest evidence she is unfit to serve
A change needs to be made at the courthouse, right now. It isn’t going to be easy and there are bureaucratic roadblocks along the way. And the same old sirens are going to sound the same old race-baiting battle call....
Board’s hasty rehire of pricey attorney is latest financial misfire
Who would have believed that a little more than a few months after finally coming up for air after disastrous spending decisions that caused havoc in Wayne County Public Schools and left the district millions of dollars in debt, we...
For 125 years, they have been there for us. The least we can do is honor their care.
Behind every brick at Wayne UNC Health Care is a story. Each signifies a moment in the lives of the families who have passed through its doors. For 125 years, the rooms and hallways of the hospital’s many locations have...
Critical moments require tough — but prudent — decisions. City water rate hike is one of them.
It is a decision, but it is not a good one. So we are going to try one more time to tell members of the Goldsboro City Council why there is only one right choice when it comes to the...
It’s time for leadership in Goldsboro, not the blame game.
When your house is on fire, where the initial spark came from isn’t what matters. Not right then. Not when the sirens are blaring. In that moment, it’s about putting out the flames to contain the damage. Well, right now,...
Yes. Send them back. But do it right.
It is time. All parents need the option to put their children back in school for more than two days a week. All it takes to know that is a quick glance at the numbers. Here are a few of...