It is an honor to serve Pitt County’s 9th District in the North Carolina House of Representatives. As we approach my first two months in office, I wanted to reach out directly to constituents and provide updates on what is happening on the ground in Raleigh. It is important for elected repre…
What are the grades for Biden and the Democrats after one year?
Good citizens of Pitt County, I am highly opposed to City Council making changes to our land zoning laws to allow Compute North, who would offer crypto currency mining services, to operate in Pitt County for many good reasons.
The scheduling of decision by the City Council to approve Bitcoin mining operations in and around Greenville is premature. The noise level associated with blockchain technology, (the basis for crypto currencies like Bitcoin) must be investigated prior to any decision to approve its location …
A few years back, during an interview for a management position (that I did not get at the time), a senior vice president, who I highly admire, gave me some great advice: “You have to do the job that you have.” It made me think of how I could use “job crafting” as a powerful tool for re-ener…
The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to permanently protect our coasts from dirty and dangerous offshore drilling in the Build Back Better Act.
Featured in the Reflector and via email, our so-called 3rd District representative spewed out propaganda that only Trump cult members dare do.
Over a year and a half ago, seven of our nine county commissioners voted hastily to remove the Pitt County Confederate Soldiers Monument and then, under cover of night, it was lifted off its base.
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Once again Greg Murphy astounded his North Carolina constituents. On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection Murphy chose to release a statement in which he engaged in petty partisan politics and avoided the serious constitutional issues raised when Trump supporters, enthusiastically enco…
In 1972, social commentator and comedian George Carlin recited a list of seven “dirty words” inappropriate for public media. Nonetheless, telling euphemisms are whimsically abundant in current TV commercials and sitcoms.
There are some serious questions we should all be asking ourselves at this time in our history.
We wartime volunteers, we favorite nephews and nieces of our Uncle Sam, have all risked our lives over the past two and a half centuries in order to preserve and support the great experiment in democracy that the founders initiated. A large number of us have suffered dearly as a result of ou…
Where there is a fertilized egg, there is life, but that is just my opinion. Just as that first-grader is an adult in its potential, if left alone that fertilized egg will become a human. Human life doesn’t just generate spontaneously; it is not an accident.
Americans wrestle with the tension between personal independence and constraints of the community. While many see this tension as a creative energy for the general good, others see it as oppression of individual rights. In her Dec. 29 column, “2021 proved trusting government a mistake,” Rach…
Less than 20 years ago, there were Christmas vacations, Christmas parties, Christmas sales and everyone said, Merry Christmas” as they put up their Christmas tree.
Humanity needs a cathartic, soothing bromide of R & R.
We must push forward for what is right in a world where wrong is glorified and subject to cognitive dissonance. We must not be dismayed by those who aim to fray our direction.
We were excited to find out that the wellness center, to which we belonged before the pandemic, would be re-opening in January.
Calvin Mercer’s “Little Red Wagon” (The Daily Reflector, Dec. 11-13) story brought to mind a little red wagon story of my own from long ago.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher and mathematician, stated, “No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” This quote reminds me of The Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights advocate and humanitarian, whose noble advocacies have satiated appetites fo…
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