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June 3, 2020 9 Responses

Why is there so much Dunsmore ‘didn’t know’?

By now you know that there is something rotten in Denmark — that there are serious financial concerns in the Wayne County School District. And you might also have noted that at least some of those concerns involve a little...

June 1, 2020 one Response

This is the Goldsboro we should aspire to be

Sometimes the way to change a mind or a heart is to find common ground. In other cities, we watched violence, vandalism and hatred spill into streets and innocent people lose their livelihoods. We saw others get injured in the...

June 1, 2020 No Responses

Protest stays peaceful because cooler heads prevailed

There were times when the scene playing out in downtown Goldsboro Sunday evening was consistent with other protests that have broken out across the country since George Floyd died in the custody of members of the Minneapolis Police Department May...

April 24, 2020 one Response

School’s out for summer? Early grade announcement is an education fail.

Oh boy. The state Board of Education — and the Department of Public Instruction — sure have impeccable timing, don’t they? We can’t think of a better message to send our high school students — most of whom have more...

March 21, 2020 No Responses

When the going gets tough, Wayne rises

We are all uneasy and a little scared. The constant barrage of news about COVID-19 and the extreme effect it is having on our daily lives just keeps coming — and that has made us all pause a bit and...

March 18, 2020 2 Responses

A dispatch from Monday’s City Council work session: Things that make you go hmmm

We were pleasantly surprised when, during the Goldsboro City Council’s recent work session, District 1 Councilman Antonio Williams stood up for public records law. Surprised because this is the same Mr. Williams who, less than a year ago, defended his...