Posts in "Editor’s Forum"
Digital outrage
Digital photos, videos and web forums helped bring attention to problems with a 15-year-old commercial fishing rule.
A tax gamble
Try it and see if it works: The experimental nature of beach nourishment now seems to apply to paying for it.
A photo ID would not have fixed this mistake
A proposal by the General Assembly’s new GOP majority to require voters to present photo IDs brings back a painful polling place memory.
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The Republic should survive KDH smoking ban
If the ban discourages smoking by young people at Aviation Park and other town parks and inconveniences a few adults, then so be it.
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Never mind
Protecting a vacant oceanfront tract was behind initial objections to a hotel project in Corolla. Now it doesn’t seem to matter.
These latest figures suggest a few stories
Unlike the whimsical accounts we wrote many years ago, Nags Head’s annual report offers some figures that can tell a real story or two.
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Nags Head might need a Plan D for nourishment
Regardless of what you think about beach nourishment, you have to give the Nags Head Board of Commissioners credit for perseverance.
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Fliers know no political bounds — or boundaries
By now, just about everyone who cares to has weighed in with disdain over the fliers attacking Marc Basnight. Now we’re getting one for a race we can’t even vote in.
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Process paved the way for an angry confrontation
Feelings reached the boiling point as citizens and commissioners clashed over the Lowe’s plan. Could there have been a better way?
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Crime can strike uncomfortably close to home
Stabbings have made the news lately, but break-ins and thefts are a bigger risk for all of us. Lately, guns have been part of the take.
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Land-use plans can hint at future development
Land-use plans can be handy guides to towns and counties. But they can do more. They give you hints about where governments stand on development.
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Despite its flaws, home is a good place to be
Two western North Carolina towns offer a contrast to the Outer Banks. In their own way, each has something to offer, but there’s still no place like home.
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