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Memories of a country mailman
There was a time when a business needed one of the larger post office boxes available for rent.

February 11, 2013
To The Editor:
To the Editor:
America works when Americans work.

February 11, 2013
To The Editor:
To the Editor:
Wrong, wrong, wrong this was just malicious.

February 11, 2013
To The Editor:
To the Editor:
One of the things I love most about returning home to my beloved Tarboro is escaping the grueling crush of northern Virginia and nasty Washington politics.

February 11, 2013
Women in combat
It sounds like our government has made the decision that women should serve in combat and it has become politically correct to fully support this and very politically incorrect to even question the validity of this decision.

February 6, 2013
What’s wrong with background checks?
I don’t understand why Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. continues to oppose background checks for all gun purchases.

February 4, 2013
Random thoughts on a Monday ...
Kudos to all of our town, county and state employees who worked to get our streets and roadways ready for Friday’s inclement weather.
The preparation effort got under way on Thursday and continued Friday. Friday night, as the ice was coming to an end, there were trucks out sanding and grading ice off the surface with bladed trucks.

January 28, 2013
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Monday was a day of three-fold significance. Most everyone knows it was President Obama’s second inauguration, and the holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. But do you know it was the third anniversary of the Supreme Court Citizens United decision?

January 23, 2013
Big spending and pork
This nation has been on an historical spending spree since 2008 and there’s still no end in sight. In 2008 our national debt was $9.6 trillion, now it’s over $16 trillion and rising. Do any of us have any concept of how much a trillion dollars is? I know I don’t.

January 23, 2013
Still enjoying Mardi Gras in NC
It’s Mardi Gras season in the Deep South. The first three parades of the 2013 season rolled this weekend in New Orleans — Krewe du Vieux and Krewe Delusion through the French Quarter Saturday night and the Krewe of Little Rascals Sunday afternoon in Metairie.

January 22, 2013
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