Letters

I am descended from a slave. Thomas Warden (b.1599) was brought against his will to the Jamestown settlement as an indentured servant owned by Capt. William Eppes, master of the ship Anne. In 1623 he was landed on the eastern shore to work in servitude in the Eppes tobacco fields. For almost…

So did you see the footage of the protestor in Portland holding up a boom box across the street from military-looking, armed men in camouflage, unidentified except for the word “Police” on their pocket. They could have been anybody. That is the very definition of secret police.

Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the civil rights law passed by Congress and signed by then-President George HW Bush. This legislation is often hailed as a parallel Emancipation Proclamation for all Americans with a disability. The ADA has served as …

Students are top priority

I am deeply saddened by the events occurring in America today. Peaceful protests have been hijacked by Black Lives Matter and other Antifa-like groups (all supporting socialist/Marxist ideology). All of this has been well organized: Peaceful protesters on the front line holding their hands u…

What to say about these times? Perhaps a good place to start is to try to illustrate for some where the anger and the angst come from for so many these days who are protesting the murder of George Floyd and far too many others.

As a citizen of Pitt County and a person of color, or “POC,” I am extremely disappointed with the news report regarding an email sent to Vidant Medical Center employees titled “16 Bridge-Building tips for White People.”

A brand-new nonprofit called Caitlin’s Courage has received $3.5 million for a pilot program to track domestic violence perpetrators.

There are lessons in the words we hear. For instance, in “The King and I,” we hear, “That when you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.” It’s true.

Chemical weapons facilitate tactical warfare, intended to kill or incapacitate enemy soldiers on the battlefield. Biological warfare, on the other hand, is purely strategic, since the time delay with such weapons renders them useless on the battlefield. The ideal biological weapon is extreme…

Chemical weapons facilitate tactical warfare, intended to kill or incapacitate enemy soldiers on the battlefield. Biological warfare, on the other hand, is purely strategic, since the time delay with such weapons renders them useless on the battlefield. The ideal biological weapon is extreme…

Now that the Pitt County Board of Commissioners has decided to approve new body cameras for use by deputies, the community must not rest on its laurels and assume that law enforcement always will do the right thing regarding the use of such body cams.

It’s as obvious now as it has been all along that Donald Trump’s directives and behavior, indeed, his whole presidency has been laughable. From the very beginning of his terrible term in office, one could think, “what a joke.”

COVID-19 works to shut down the economy — and needed light on government. With news and citizen attention on the virus, who’s minding the store down at City Hall? Someone needs to. Here’s why a majority of this council merits scrutiny on land use.

So now the portly gentleman in the White House wants all schools to open or face the loss of federal funding. And yet only a few Northeastern states have met the metrics for SARS-Cov-2 infections that would allow for some form of in-person schooling. The experience of several countries, nota…

Landmark legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else turns 30 this month. Although the Americans with Disabilities Act helps create a more inclusive environment, more needs to be done to satisfy the expectatio…

We make things so much harder than they have to be.