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Encore performance

  Dear Viewpoint: Are you aware that a professional orchestra from North Carolina has been performing for Mecklenburg County’s primary students each year for the past 5 years? Probably not, because we did not have a space large enough for an orchestra and the number of students participating to gather together in our county until last year when the Phoenix […]

Catching up


Catching up with the news: » Last week landed on a sad note with news of the passing of Barbara Martin, proprietor of Virginia Avenue Mall in Clarksville, after a prolonged illness. In all my time dealing with fellow small business people, I don’t think I’ve encountered any who was more deserving of admiration and respect than Barbara. She was […]

Girls just want to play

  Dear Viewpoint: Girls just want to play! Yeah, basketball — and soccer, lacrosse, volleyball and everything else. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Sports Foundation which continues to do so much in advancing the development of sports in communities across the United States. Their efforts are paying off and it benefits all of us. There are […]

No surprise there

  Dear Viewpoint: It is no surprise to me that three “State Government Knows Best” Democratic legislators from urban districts that will never suffer the blight of large solar farms are trying to meet the standards of the Virginia Clean Economy Act, by forcing rural areas to overturn their limits on the locations of these solar farms. Since automobile tailpipe […]

Still no good for nothing

  Dear Viewpoint: Back in the late ‘60s Edwin Starr released a song entitled “WAR.” It was a protest song about the Vietnam war or conflict if you prefer. A lot of us in college at the time were against the war especially where I lived in “Liberal NY.” Probably different views in other areas. That’s the way it was. […]

Dance moves


Among the many pleasures of parenthood is getting to know your kids’ friends. You get to witness the nuttiest things. Growing up, my kids hung around with a young lad from a UNC family. Around this time of year he would entertain anyone within earshot with this little ditty: Duke is puke and Wake is fake, but the team I […]

Save our school

  Dear Viewpoint: As a proud legacy of Old West End High School, now Bluestone Middle, I am deeply concerned about the potential demise of this historic institution. The name change during the desegregation of schools is a painful chapter in our county’s history (the school’s name was changed after desegregation from West End to Bluestone Middle in the 1969-1970 […]

A dark vision for America

  Dear Viewpoint: In what may be described as the most chaotic election year in our history, I think it’s best to consider the “vision” of America’s future that each party and the candidates are promising us. We listen to their positions and proposals on individual policy issues and we determine if they are good for the country and more […]

Fair share of what?

  Dear Viewpoint: Once again the administration has called for the highest one percent to “pay their fair share.” Biden, Sanders, Warren and company have long said that the top one percent do not pay their way. Well, in a Jan. 2023 report by the Tax Foundation, according to IRS data, the top one percent of taxpayers paid a 25.99 […]

Counterpoints

From time to time, people ask the question, “Why don’t you write about the Democrats for once?” Only on occasion do they complete the sentence with what they’re really thinking: “and all the stupid/terrible/
outrageous stuff they come up with.” All right, challenge accepted. Let’s go straight to the top on this one. There’s a cottage industry of pundits who insist […]


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