“In Rama there was a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children …” -- Matthew 2:18
Many debates in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting are raging right now, and they will continue. Some are proposing changes to the way that security is handled at elementary schools, indeed at all schools.
According to our Declaration of Independence, legitimate governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That consent is gained through the process of voting.
The oldest negatives in The Herald-Sun’s files date to October 1945, and they were taken by Charles Cooper.
Observers who are looking for a sign that the economy might be on a subtle upswing will not have far to look this holiday season.
Like so many Americans, I am overcome by grief and sadness over the loss our nation suffered in Newtown, Conn. As we try to comprehend the violence and pain it has inflicted, we feel motivated to do something, anything, to stop the senseless violence.
A mid-December ruling by the State Board of Elections that allowed a do-over for some Buncombe County college students during early voting could wreak havoc in college towns all across the state.
For the past several decades at least, newspaper coverage has been as much about photographic images as it is about words. The intersection of stories and photos is key to what makes newspapers and news coverage compelling. A picture often does do as much to tell a story as a thousand words might.
If it’s one thing that we cannot have following the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., it is more apathy. Sure, following every mass shooting, the media does a great job of covering the shooter’s mentality and the grief of the victims’ family.
The events in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14 have struck me deeply. I work as a psychiatrist at Durham Center Access, where members of our community come for treatment of mental illness and/or substance abuse. Most people come to our facility voluntarily, but on a daily basis Durham Police bring people to our facility for evaluation because of risks to harm self or to harm others.
In response to Lee Nelson's recent letter " Gun control in America":
I think Lee is on track when he mentions arming teachers, although I doubt an AK-47 would be the gun of choice. I would leave that decision to professional security personnel. I don't think that required concealed carry for students is an option, but we absolutely should teach gun use, safety and law in our public schools.
On particular roadways around Durham, such as along the U.S. 15-501 and Fayetteville Road corridors, they are a familiar sight: Men and women clad in orange vests, soliciting for donations.
Two recent projects provide a needed perspective on local civil rights history. Learning and knowing that history should be of importance to every American, but is particularly meaningful to those of us living in the South.
Here in the United States we are yet again reeling from another mass killing, this time in an elementary school.
I am sickened and outraged (once again). How long will we allow the carnage to go on? Are we going to let the NRA advocate for conceal-carry in our daycares (as they just passed in Michigan last week)? Are we going to arm the teachers? It is insane. Children murdering children.