It is becoming pretty clear that the most urgent question facing today's Europe is the German question. Paul Krugman sees Germany as k...

I thought I would post without comment a link to Tony Tharp's most recent comments about Oriental here . Bear in mind he is writing fr...

"One trains for the known, but educates for the unknown...." Thomas Ricks

A large and growing group has formed to oppose Walmart's plan to open a Walmart Express just outside Oriental's Town Limit. Walmar...

After several months worth of effort, On Monday night, Pamlico County's Board of Commissioners voted five to two to adopt the Pamlico Co...

As I read this article, in my mind I heard the strains of Borodin's music. Would you believe a seven thousand mile journey of freight...

No, it isn't. Here's the debate. Later today I'll give my take on the issue. The real question is: "good for whom?...

During a senate debate on the Panama Canal Treaty in 1978, United States Senator S. I. Hayakawa of California argued, "We should keep t...

I've been thinking about the ferry toll issue. Why is it so hard for some people to think of a ferry as an integral element of a transpo...

Once again, republicans in the state legislature have thrown Eastern North Carolina under the bus. I find it interesting that real estate...

Today's Washington Post prints a piece by columnist E. J. Dionne shedding light on the positive role the federal government has always p...

There is a petition circulating around town opposing the contract negotiated between the Town Board and Mr. Chris Fulcher concerning the dis...

Robert Reich, President Clinton's secretary of labor and currently a professor at Berkeley, has posted a commencement address . He title...

We keep hearing charges that "Oriental needs to be more friendly to business." The truth is that the biggest obstacles to busine...

About five years ago, the Town of Oriental's Board of Commissioners established a Long Range Planning Committee. I suggest that it is ti...

Do you know what a "Senior Public Involvement Officer" is? I tried to find out this evening on the NC DOT web site, to no avail. ...

Today's article in the News and Observer about possible tolls on I-95 should be a wake-up call. Tolls for Pamlico County commuters may ...

Judging from the current primary campaigns as well as what has happened in many states when Republicans take over, the new operative slogan ...

I attended last Friday's STEP II forum at the Pamlico Community College's Ned Delamar Center. It was a bit discouraging. The point...