Editorials
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It’s not a prank, a protest or political activism. Plain and simple, it’s a crime.
Thieves uprooted more than 100 campaign signs for President Donald Trump from Wilson roadsides …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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9/28/20
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Linda Cooper-Suggs and Mick Rankin have each set their course for the same destination — a healthy, prosperous and well-educated North Carolina. They’re just following vastly different …
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A Times editorial
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9/24/20
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Fifty-seven years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream of equality, justice and unity with a quarter million people in the nation’s capital.
Delivered from the Lincoln …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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8/28/20
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Wilson Mayor Carlton Stevens says two police officers wrestled him onto the hood of his car during a traffic stop in a neighboring city.
Officers told him they were looking for an African …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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8/20/20
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When you see an unfamiliar face, your subconscious forms a first impression in less time than it takes to blink. Neuroscience tells us the human mind’s hardwired to interpret facial expressions …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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8/7/20
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Rachel Williams says a T-shirt got her thrown out of a Wilson doctor’s office. In the Charlotte suburb of Gastonia, Lydia Sturgues-Robinson said an ice cream parlor booted her over a …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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7/30/20
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THUMBS UP to Wilson city officials for recommending rule changes that would give businesses more artistic freedom and more leeway to advertise limited-time deals.
The Wilson City Council …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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7/23/20
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Each desk on the N.C. House floor is equipped with a microphone. Jean Farmer-Butterfield said she’d use hers to amplify Wilson County residents’ voices, and she’s kept that promise …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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7/9/20
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Happy birthday, America!
Like many holidays, Saturday’s celebration of the Declaration of Independence’s signing is wrapped in myth and collective wisdom.
The …
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A Times archive editorial
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7/3/20
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North Carolina’s newest law enforcers won’t be sworn to protect and serve. They’ll be unarmed, and instead of badges, their uniforms will feature name tags from supermarkets, …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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6/25/20
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THUMBS UP to the Wilson County Board of Education for ending the misguided practice of “lunch shaming” in our school cafeterias.
The board approved a new nutritional services …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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6/18/20
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As stakeholders work to repair North Carolina’s criminal justice system, they should make Louis Brandeis’ famous declaration their constant refrain: Sunlight is the best …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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6/11/20
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Along with public health, the COVID-19 pandemic is testing government transparency in North Carolina.
State officials have withheld vital information about coronavirus outbreaks that would …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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5/28/20
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No air conditioning or box fans on boiling June days, no refrigerator humming to preserve food and no running water for showers, baths and hand-washing.
Those bleak conditions could become …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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5/21/20
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In the age of COVID-19, is pushing a shopping cart really safer than holding a hymnal?
Gov. Roy Cooper’s May 5 executive order reopening parts of North Carolina’s economy allows …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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5/13/20
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The North Carolina Supreme Court supports transparency in higher education and free speech for motorists, two well-reasoned Friday rulings suggest.
A long-awaited decision in DTH Media Corp. v. …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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5/4/20
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State officials are withholding vital public health information from Wilson County residents, leaving us in the dark on a COVID-19 outbreak at a Wilson food processing plant.
This week, the …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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4/30/20
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THUMBS UP to Gov. Roy Cooper for explaining that his statewide stay-at-home order designed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 doesn’t prohibit public protests.
After N.C. Capitol police …
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A Wilson Times editorial
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4/26/20
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During this coronavirus pandemic, access to accurate and trustworthy information in your community is as critical to life under quarantine and as sought after as hand sanitizer and face …
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America's Newspapers
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4/23/20
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THUMBS DOWN to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services for withholding vital information about a COVID-19 outbreak at Wilson’s Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center from the public …
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A Times editorial
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4/19/20
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