We’re Listening: Waiting on the World to Change
Are you waiting or are you ready to take action in 2024? The time to begin is now. https://youtu.be/yTU2J2xnkbg?si=0hBoKgP8IZMOaWco Waiting on the World to Change, song by John Mayer One,…
Nan Lund: Take Off Your Blinders
Nan Lund responds to "DEI Efforts in Higher Education Deserve your Support," a column by Elon professor Mathew Gendle. "Looking back 50 years to 1963 when Dr. King’s most famous…
Pam Bloom: Not All Opinions are Created Equal
Pam Bloom writes a rebuttal to the My Turn, "Dr. King and DEI." "Not all opinions are created equal, even my own. Ignoring the difference becomes a complicit form of…
We’re Watching: Rebuttal to #45’s Aspiration for Godhood
The leading Republican candidate for POTUS recently released a commercial that seriously proclaimed he was sent by God for the United States. Lincoln Project responded with this dark parody. This rebuttal…
We’re Watching: Staying Informed – Should You Bother?
Some days it all feels hopeless. Does staying informed help you to know when you can effect change? Beau of the 5th Column often delivers positivity and hope with his…
January Calendar: Martin Luther King Holiday
Join the MLK Parade and walk to support reading, democratic ideals, and local 2024 Democratic candidates on Saturday, Jan. 13, 11 am - 12 noon. Meet up at 10:30 along Church…
Kenneth Stutts: Election Workers Needed
Interested in becoming a paid election worker? Rowan County Board of Elections member, Kenneth Stutts, provides encouragement and information to residents about becoming an election worker for the 2024 March…
What’s Now, What’s Next: Local Responses to Food Insecurity
On Tuesday, 1/16/24, Rowan County will celebrate its second annual National Day of Racial Healing with a presentation: "What’s Now, What’s Next: Local Responses to Food Insecurity." The event focuses on…
Kim Porter: A Liberal Arts Education
After many phone calls and postcards (yes I am old), I related to him [Dad] that a college education was to assist me in learning how to live, not get…
Keith Townsend: Slavery Was the Cause of the Civil War
This year will mark the 158th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Surely, at last, it is time for all Americans, especially white Southerners such as myself, to…