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You can put lipstick on a pig but you still have a pig
It seems to me these days that the Republicans are trying to become Democrats and the Democrats are trying to become Republicans — go figure. I have listened to so much talk about re-branding the Republican Party to make it more competitive in presidential elections, and all this comes from the autopsy performed by the Conservative Political Action Conference’s last meeting during the last election. They found out they were too white and way ...
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The biannual migration of the snow birds
There are about 3,000 miles of Intracoastal Waterway, as was conceived by the United States Congress in 1909 by the Rivers and Harbors Act, following the invention of the diesel engine. The act set national policy for waterway from Boston to the Rio Grande. Construction of the canal began shortly thereafter with the purpose of moving supplies north and south. Following the Civil War, the waterway system suffered from the railroads’ anti-com...
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Filling mom’s worn shoes
On the day I became a mother, I remember feeling like the worst daughter in the world. I looked at my mother and apologized for the nights that I stayed out late and didn’t call, the times I talked back, the days that we yelled at each other over some inconsequential thing that to my teenage self-involved self seemed like the most unfair event that had ever taken place. I apologized because for the first time, I realized how she felt abou...
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Blanks
Your View for April 25
If you could have any super power, what would it be and why? “I guess a peacemaker — to help people stop the violence. I’d start in St. Pauls.” — Sharon Blanks “I watch ‘Charmed’ all the time, and I’d be Piper, I’d have that power in my hands to flick my hand and blow something up.” — Claudette Fairley “I would stop all the fighting, I’d make them kiss and make up. I guess I’d be a peacemaker. I’m 73 years old and I’m tired of peopl...
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North Carolina writers serve up spring reading options
Ready or not, spring is here — and it is time for a seasonal update on new books important to North Carolinians. This month’s most important literary news is the release of “Life After Life,” popular author Jill McCorkle’s first novel in 17 years. McCorkle fills a southeastern North Carolina retirement facility with quirky residents, staff, and visitors whose encounters with each other make readers wonder whether to laugh or cry. She will b...
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Roadside memorials should give pause to motorists
To the editor: North Carolina is very concerned about litter along its highways, and has been for as long as I can remember. So, when I first saw roadside shrines, markers and wreaths, I was somewhat surprised that the Division of Highways personnel allowed such things. One would have thought that the authorities would have taken them away as trash, but not so. To my surprise, not only were they not taken away once they became old and faded...
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Congress, and other diseased bodies
One of my favorite targets for bashing has been Congress and Republicans because Congress is full of phony, thieving, elitist Neanderthals and the Republicans keep shooting themselves in the foot. Can anybody ever stop making earmarks? It doesn’t look like it — and I believe they think that their own dirty little trouble is a secret. I think the trouble with earmarks is they are in almost every bill that is introduced in either side of the Ca...
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Newfangled technology
A few short years ago, I remember trying to explain to my dad, notoriously out of touch with technology, why writing on the shiny side of a CD would ruin it. Last week, he sent me an email with his phone, containing a video he had shot with said phone of an ongoing project at his job. He called me a few minutes later to ask if I had seen it, and didn’t understand why I had to wait to get back to the office. Watch a video on my cell phone?...
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Your view for May 2
What’s on your bucket list? Is there something in particular you would like to learn, a place you would like to travel, or an activity you would like to do in your lifetime? “Take a cruise to the Bahamas, just to get away from everything.” — Jane Lewis “I want to finish college, and study Physical Therapy, because I’m athletic and I want to join the military.” — Cicily Pridgen “I want to go to Hawaii. It’s beautiful and I’m pretty s...
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Growing peace
I arrived home recently, after a particularly frustrating day, in a mood that no one likes to be in. It was one of those days when everything outside your car window looks uninteresting; when you twice get stuck behind an elderly man attempting to merge onto the interstate at 40 mph; when nothing you do seems to be right. I walked into my empty home, but all I did was move around in circles. I couldn’t watch television, didn’t feel like dig...
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Eastern NC eating, the literary way
There are hundreds of reasons to celebrate Georgann Eubanks’ third and last in her “Literary Trails of the North Carolina” series. Follow her travels in the just released “Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina,” and you will have the most enjoyable and efficient survey of authors and literary connections in that region. But one of my favorite parts of her books are the descriptions of the places where literary-connected people eat. ...
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A vote for transparency
Robeson County residents don’t need to be schooled on what happens when elected officials do government business out of the sunlight. That is how our county commissioners have made themselves among the highest paid commissioners in the state while enjoying benefits that The Robesonian can find nowhere else. It was all done legally by our commissioners, through the budget process, but never discussed or debated in the public. Instead, their ...
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Letters
Resident concerned about recent break-ins to homes
To the editor: There have been many break-ins to homes in and around our community. My home was broken into in November. The sheriff’s detective has a suspect, or suspects, in mind. But none hav...
Jan 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the editor
Dear Citizens of St. Pauls and the Surrounding Areas, We would like to take this opportunity to thank each of you for all the support you give the Chamber through your attendance at Chamber spon...
Dec 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editorial
Filling mom’s worn shoes
On the day I became a mother, I remember feeling like the worst daughter in the world. I looked at my mother and apologized for the nights that I stayed out late and didn’t call, the times I tal...
May 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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The blurring of the holidays, it’s terrible, right?
Frankenstorm, the season appropriate nickname for Hurricane Sandy tearing up the east coast this week, really blurred the line between a tropical storm from the Caribbean and a snow storm fro...
Nov 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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11 years since The World Stood Still
Admin’s Corner
Sep 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bad roads, and even worse repair plans, are things that I hate
Ayering it out
Sep 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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