The day after Hurricane Dorian blew through, it was nice to see that one of our Town Council members was going around our community to see what damage was caused. The most comforting aspect of her inspection was that she rang my doorbell to check on one of her elder constituents — me. Thank…

I was a Climate Change Denier

with my head deep in the sand,

Then came the heat, that killed all the crops,

And left the dried up land.

I was a Climate Change Denier

with my head deep in the sand,

Then up came winds and down came rain,

And flooded all the land.

I was a Climate Change Denier

with my…

In a crazy mixed up world one thing that has changed for the worse is community and neighbors supporting each other. As a true artist, one that has no choice but to art or die, I have been set up for years at the corner of Bullhead and Fort Run Road here in Greene County. Most days consist of hard…

The Trump administration is considering a draft regulation to lower drug prices. North Carolinians have little reason to celebrate.

The administration’s proposal would impose price controls in Medicare. Rather than helping patients save money, this drastic step would stifle access to state-of-…

Everyone embroiled in the debate over the State Health Plan should be working toward the same thing: the best health care for the lowest cost for the people of North Carolina.

Unfortunately, disagreement over how to do that escalated into a feud and now has plummeted into a childlike spat.

The…

“Send her back!”

The racist refrain, soft at first, crescendoed as the crowd at President Donald Trump’s “Keep America Great” rally on Wednesday in Greenville emphatically picked it up. On live television, sitting stage right of the President at East Carolina…