It’s hard to top a late-season swoon or the star quarterback’s bum shoulder, but the winner for Headline Carolina Panthers Fans Didn’t Want To See Right Now is likely one that had nothing to do …
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12/20/18
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North Carolina already bans texting and driving. Now state lawmakers want to prohibit all handheld use of smartphones and tablet computers behind the wheel.
House Bill 144, the Hands-Free N.C. …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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4/23/19
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Editor’s Note: In observance of Patriot Day, The Wilson Times is republishing two editorials written shortly after Sept. 11 that reflect the local and national sentiment following a dark day in …
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9/10/19
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Editor’s Note: It is, perhaps, the most well-known and beloved newspaper editorial of all time. On Sept. 21, 1897, The New York Sun answered 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon’s earnest question …
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12/23/18
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It’s disheartening but not really surprising that both Republicans seeking their party’s nomination in this fall’s 3rd Congressional District special election are willing to pass on demanding …
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6/5/19
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No one opposes Obamacare more than we do, and Democrats are now confirming that it was designed as a way-station to government-run health care. But a federal judge’s ruling that the law is …
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12/23/18
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By now, we know that social media is more likely to bring out the worst in us than the best in us. Or, more accurately, it is likely to bring out the worst of us, while the silent many just groan and …
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1/16/19
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Editor’s Note: This editorial was published in The Wilson Daily Times on Dec. 26, 2008, and references bleak economic news during the Great Recession. While the nation’s financial outlook is not …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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12/23/18
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When Carol Folt became chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill, she may have felt like someone who had just moved into a house that was on fire.
The school was still embroiled in an ugly and embarrassing …
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1/23/19
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The new session of the General Assembly that convenes at noon Wednesday may hold some interesting political twists and turns. Things have changed a bit, in an important way.
As it’s been …
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1/8/19
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In almost every state, no means no. Except in North Carolina, where no means ... that depends.
North Carolina law is pretty much the same as every other state when one party tells the other, …
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5/23/19
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Wilson County pet owners tired of their animal registration fees being misused have a chance to stand up and be counted.
County commissioners will hold their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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1/4/19
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In a constitutional Catch-22, a divided N.C. Court of Appeals panel agrees motorists have a First Amendment right to flip the bird, but contends traffic cops can detain you for it anyway.
Shawn …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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8/8/19
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A political Thanksgiving tradition observed last week likely struck Charles Ray Finch and his family as more galling than charming.
Gov. Roy Cooper spared 45-pound toms Orville and Wilbur from …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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11/26/19
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For nearly six decades, C. Bruce Rose has served Wilson and its people with a singular selflessness. Today, Wilsonians offer their gratitude for a job well done.
It’s Bruce Rose Day in the city …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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12/4/19
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Religion, speech, press, assembly, petition.
If you can recite that list from memory, you’re ahead of 96% of American adults, according to the Freedom Forum Institute’s 2019 State of the …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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10/8/19
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No one owns the law, because the law belongs to everyone. It’s a principle that seems so obvious that most people wouldn’t give it a second thought. But that’s what is at issue in Georgia v. …
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6/30/19
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In an era in which live sporting events routinely are scrutinized to the inch and micro-millisecond using super-high-definition replays, we are not permitted the same access to footage that, unlike …
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5/8/19
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THUMBS UP to the Wilson Downtown Development Corp. for preserving tradition and easing community concerns by restoring “Christmas” to the Historic Downtown Wilson Christmas Parade’s …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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9/24/19
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County commissioners can hear you — they just aren’t listening.
That’s the only conclusion we can reach following a Wilson Times audit of constituent email contact with the Wilson County …
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A Wilson Times Co. editorial
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5/31/19
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