Editorials

$1 million

and counting


here were, according to officials with the Department of Social Services, 1,059 Robeson County children ages 1 to 13 who opened Christmas presents on Sunday morning because of the benevolence of h...
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Hands off hands-free
There is growing evidence that motorists who are talking on cell phones are a road hazard, with some studies concluding that their threat is similar to — or even greater than — that of a drunken d...
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Room for

improvement


The Racial Justice Act ought to be a good thing. Its intent, to take the black, white and red out of the courtroom and achieve the ideal of a color-blind judicial system, is noble, if fleeting, an...
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Worthy fight
et’s begin with this stipulation: There could have been confusion during the recent Fairmont municipal election, but that occurrence does not mean there was a malicious and deliberate attempt by e...
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Temporarily grounded
This past weekend’s Mid-Atlantic Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention never reached full flight, inviting criticism of the decision to move the event to the fall from its previous date in May. B...
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Dropping the Soccer ball
During a stop in Lumberton last week, Thom Tillis, the speaker of the state House and a Republican, brought some believability to the conversation about how North Carolina kicked away Project Socc...
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Broken trust
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The $98,093 penalty that the Lumbee Tribal Government must pay for misusing money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is less than 1 percent of the $14 million and change the...
Mapping the future
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The Unified Robeson County Branch of the NAACP in a recent letter to the Lumber River Council of Governments implies that the county Board of Commissioners is trying to pull a fast one when it com...
Killing the silence
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Prostate cancer, for reasons that are never adequately explained, has never managed to get the attention its deadliness deserves. September was Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and it probably p...
Hard call for United Way
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The United Way of Robeson County has one of those can’t-win decisions. No matter what it decides regarding funding for the troubled Southeastern Family Violence Center, there will be second opinio...
$100,000 question
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Sharon Hunt, the chairman of the Lumbee Tribal Council, last week said she wasn’t playing “hard ball” in her refusal to answer questions from the media concerning the tribe’s response to allegation...
Waiting on Manning
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Robeson County last week was a major player in a court hearing in Raleigh that could chart the path of education in North Carolina for the distant future, and most certainly will for the near futu...
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