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Change afoot on website, editor’s desk

Here are a few updates I want to share.

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  • EDITORIALS

    Crony capitalism alive and well

    For an upcoming yard sale along U.S. 301 in Johnston County, town councils are agreeing to protect their brick-and-mortar restaurants from the evil of food trucks. Specifically, the towns are moving to ban “mobile vendors” from selling their fare during the yard sale, which will take...

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Reader writes: Student deserves better

    I do not personally know Cole Withrow, nor anyone associated with him. However, I am appalled at how this young man is being treated. From reports, he is one of the upstanding young people whom we want in our schools and one who tried to do the right thing. Yet he is being treated like a criminal.

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Reader writes: Let’s open Smithfield government

    A new bridge opened recently in Smithfield. One town council member, Emery Ashley, is trying to open Smithfield town government. Accordingly, all Smithfield residents who believe in fair and open government should give Mr. Ashley a much-deserved “thank you” for his determination to...

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Reader writes: Free Cole Withrow

    First, the school system suspended Eagle Scout Cole Withrow for 10 days and had him charged with a felony violation of G.S. 14-269.2, despite the fact that a change in the law, effective Dec. 1, 2011, requires that the violation occur “knowingly,” which was clearly not the case with...

  • COLUMNS

    Hog farmers turn green

    Who would have thought two decades ago that North Carolina hog farmers would prove pivotal in preserving an environmental law?

  • OPINION

    Town needs to maintain ‘public realm’

    It’s not often that a book review in The Wall Street Journal has import for Smithfield, but a recent one does.

  • OPINION

    Facebook makes a birthday better

    I know that Facebook is imperfect. In particular, its critics say, the social-media company isn’t protective of the privacy of its customers, though, truth be told, Facebook can share no more with strangers than is shared with it.

  • OPINION

    Reader writes: Celebrate older adults

    Every year since 1963, May has been the month to appreciate and celebrate the vitality and aspirations of older adults and their contributions and achievements.

  • OPINION

    Reader writes: GOP deconstructing government

    In a recent column, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation, a conservative, small-government think tank, argued that our recently elected governor was playing “small ball” in his first 100 days.

  • OPINION

    GOP likely making a mistake

    One interesting aspect of Republican rule in the state capital is this: As the GOP has rejected significant portions of public policy drawn by Democrats predecessors, Republican lawmakers have embraced a demonstrated failure of Democratic policy.

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