Census count key for county Census forms are arriving in the mail in Rutherford County now and it is important that people fill those papers out and return them. This is an exercise we go through once every 10 years and a lo...
We keep getting in our own way Americans have always had a love-hate affair with government and there is very little chance that is going to change. We are a people who cherish our right to do what we want to do, when we want t...
Small business efforts needed Gov. Bev Perdue this week unveiled a new, two-pronged effort aimed at getting the state’s community banks and small businesses working together.
Getting lab cleared critical North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper appears determined in his efforts to restore faith and confidence in the state’s crime lab. Cooper announced Friday that two former FBI executives — Mi...
Better health should be focus President Obama is calling for a vote on the health care reform bill, and it will likely come. Whether the outcome is what he wants or not is still very much in doubt.
TV misleading on real CSI labs Television has filled the minds of Americans with the drama of scientific advances in criminal investigation. The popular CSI series has spawned multiple series where each week exotic science re...
County cannot stand still now Rutherford County officials had the foresight awhile back to launch a multi-year plan to improve technology in the county’s schools. Now, thanks to the sagging economy, the funding for that projec...
Case review is the right move North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has ordered a statewide review of criminal cases to see whether there are other cases in which evidence has been withheld from defendants. The order come...
Dear Governor, Are you There? North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, like her predecessor Mike Easley, got sucker punched even before she took office as the state and national economies nose dived.
There is a way to get change While many Americans watched Thursday, President Obama and members of the Congress held a health care summit in Washington. When the day ended, neither side had moved much, and the nation was stuc...
Voters should remember goal While we Americans continue our ongoing debate about what our current leaders are doing in Washington and whether our government is failing to do the job we expect it to do, the cries for kicking ...
Credit rules not a magic bullet
The new credit card rules just implemented are supposed to help consumers, but there is a catch — unless consumers do all they can for themselves, these new rules will not do much to help them. Us...
We are waiting for real action All eyes will be on Washington this week as President Obama hosts a televised, bipartisan summit meeting on health care and the Congress begins to deal with a proposed jobs bill. Will we see our p...
Issues that face us not simple At some point, the light bulb has to click on for America so that we all understand that the most significant issues facing us are all connected.
