School board candidate denies being guilty of indecent exposure To the Editor,
This letter is in response to a story published in The Robesonian on Thursday about a conviction rendered against me in 1992.
On or about March, 1992, two police officers from the Lumberton Police Department came to my home around 6 p.m. and stated that some person reported to them that I engaged in an act of independent exposure in a parking lot. At that time the officers did not state who made such charge nor did they sta...
Raymond Cummings has shown that he is a good decision-maker To the Editor,
Robeson county needs a county commissioner who will keep the interests of its citizens ahead of his own personal profit. Raymond Cummings has proven that he is a man of integrity, fairness and sound judgment. Wise financial decision-making in his own private affairs makes him the best candidate to keep our county moving forward in hard economic times.
As a businessman myself, I appreciate and support a candidate who is a go...
No need to panic on warming In a better world, debates about science — and nearly everything else — would be conducted without resort to demagoguery, sentimentality, cynical manipulation, or hysteria. In the world we inhabit, those tactics are dismayingly routine. Still, the great weakness of overwrought predictions of doom is that they can be checked.
The past year has not been kind to the most potent symbols of climate change hysteria. Consider the polar bears. Amon...
A new norm for paying CEOs? Lavishly paid executives have a new 1 percent number to ponder. It’s not about their perch on the top branch of U.S. incomes. It’s the lousy 1 percent rise in Citibank’s quarterly revenues, which helped prompt the bank’s stockholders to reject CEO Vikram Pandit’s $15 million pay package. That they were earning a meager 1-cent-a-share quarterly dividend did not improve their mood.
A cornerstone of capitalism is that by richly rewarding succe...
Support sought to preserve the NC Indian Cultural Center To the Editor,
As chairman of the North Carolina Indian Cultural Center, I and my board of directors would like to invite the citizens of Robeson and adjoining counties to come and support the center’s New Beginning Project 2012.
The NCICC, formerly known as Riverside Recreation Center, has been a fixture in Robeson County and for American Indian people for more than 40 years. It has been a place where native and non-native families have ...
School system unfairly provides girls softball with just one umpire To the Editor,
This letter is about the continual unequal treatment of girls sports.
In Robeson County, boys baseball games have always had two umpires, one to call behind the plate and the other to cover field action. Girls games, because of what is termed budget concerns, are only afforded one official. The issue was brought forth to Ronnie Chavis, who was athletic director in 2011. He listened to the concerns and told us it would be ad...
After Republican Party goes after gays, who will be next? To the Editor,
Are you a pawn in your own demise? For years we have heard the slogans “Take back our country,” or “Make America what it used to be.”
What is the real meaning of these sayings? The plan, formulated by the Republican Party, is very much in motion. The premise is simple: Use the popular vote to disenfranchise the minorities until there is once again a super majority of white, Anglo-Saxon conservative Republican males. The way...
Dale Fowell will tackle issues if elected lieutenant governor To the Editor,
I’m the spouse of an elected official, the one you never hear about, who sees and hears it all. My husband, Dale Folwell, is applying to be your next lieutenant governor. For most of our 26 years together, he has been in public service.
I support him not because I’m married to him, but because he got here by climbing his own ladder with his bare hands. As speaker pro-tem of the House, he feels the anxieties that North Carol...
Tribal members should direct dollars to fund to help educate To the Editor,
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
In December, Paul Brooks orchestrated private donors coming together and providing $15,000 to “feed” folks at an event at the Southeastern Farmers Market. While the community event was packaged in different ways, when all the ribbons and bows were removed, the event was a campaign initiative in appreciation and preparation for...
County government’s failures on Animal Control require state fix To the Editor,
I wish to respond to county Commissioner David Edge’s comment regarding the “insane” idea of animals in air-cooled boxes mandated by the state’s Department of Agriculture. Failure of the county commissioners to adopt standards of humane treatment for animals and their welfare have made it necessary for the state’s intervention. When “local” government bodies fail on important issues of the people, then it is necessary for big...
Commissoner’s comment about animals suggests don’t care attitude To the Editor,
County Commissioner David Edge must be living in the Dark Ages or hiding under a rock! Obviously he has been MIA during the many years some of us have worked diligently to make certain our animals are treated in the manner they deserve.
I doubt he would like to be driving around in a vehicle without air conditioning and I doubt he would like to be taken to his death smothering in the back of a truck so hot he couldn’t breat...
Lumberton residents need to pitch in with recycling program To the Editor,
Our City Council and our Public Works Department are to be commended for their recent action to bring curbside recycling to Lumberton. My family has been faithful in separating and taking recyclable materials to the local collection point directly behind the Lumberton Rescue Station since its inception there, and for many years at the former recycling site on Bailey Road.
If we are to be good stewards of our environment, we...
The Robesonian applauded for its tribute to Dalton Brooks To the Editor,
I want to thank The Robesonian in a deeply heartfelt way for writing the editorial on Dr. Dalton Brooks entitled “Lost Leader” that was published on Jan. 18.
Two days of listening to persons at both the wake and the funeral for Dr. Brooks confirmed my sense of the special quality of Dalton’s spirit, life, and contribution. He lived in love and stepped forward to serve our Robeson County community when he was asked by others...
Two bills pending in Congress threaten our rights as citizens To the Editor,
I want to get the word out about two bills that are being argued in Congress. These two bills have to do with the Internet and our freedoms as we know them now. In fact, if they pass, they will be infringing upon parts of our First Amendment Freedom of Speech. If that falls, just how much longer before other of our rights as citizens of this great nation will fall? The two bills are called SOPA and PIPA.
Community sites exi...
Lumbee Tribe does poor job or informing public on services To the Editor,
The policies and practices of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina make it difficult for tribal members to receive services. Additionally, quality communication to tribal members is not a priority of the LTNC.
In order to receive the most basic information about available services, tribal members must take off work (possibly endangering their employment), secure child, adult or elder care (incurring costs) and locate transpor...
Newspaper coverage sparks donations for Christmas program To the Editor,
I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks again for the wonderful coverage and support you provided the RCC&CC in the Robesonian on our Brighter Christmas program and the splendid donations from Campbell Soup. I truly appreciate your willingness to phone us to make certain the correct information was printed.
The articles garnered alot of support from the community and leaders in terms of additional donations, as ...
