I saw him from the window. I should not have opened the door. There he stood. He was not shaken in my presence. He stood his ground. He had large ears and scrawny legs. He said his name was Peter. We had a moment.
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2023 @ 9:19 am
By: Lib Campbell
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A good friend, knowing how much I enjoy words, recently sent me a copy of Dr. Frank Luntz’s classic book, “Words that work.”
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2023 @ 6:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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“Summertime… and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.” Anticipation of summer parties, cookouts and pool parties. Beach trips and lake trips, and our favorite, the Neuse River.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 3:01 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Public education is the most important function of state government and we spend more tax dollars on education than any other budget item.
Published: Monday, June 19th, 2023 @ 11:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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America in 1944 was vastly different from the nation we are today.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 5:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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She watches news and reads broadly. She is particularly interested, and increasingly curious, about all the anti-abortion activity that is making so much noise around her.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 7:54 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Recently we had the opportunity to spend nearly two weeks in France. From Paris, we sailed on the Seine to Caen and the United States Cemetery in Normandy.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 10:05 am
By: Lib Campbell
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A reader asked why I am so insistent that the General Assembly is making the greatest power grab since Reconstruction.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 6:34 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It all started with Linda. Our friends adopted her, this little brown dog from South Carolina.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 12:07 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Blue Cross’ restructuring: “The devil is in the lack of details.”
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 11:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Warm spring afternoons bring the neighborhood children out to play. Laughter rings out and bikes are everywhere in the cul-de-sac, almost like it’s Daytona.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 7:59 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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What’s the difference between a protest and a riot? It is a legitimate question since our legislature recently passed an anti-riot bill.
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2023 @ 5:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In a commercial that ran in the Carolina Hurricanes playoff game, the elementary school boy came home. He looked in his fridge for apples and bananas.
Published: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: Lib Campbell
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What can you do when already-powerful politicians grab more and more power?
Published: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 9:25 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The Greenville Rose High School graduating class of 1963 met for its sixtieth reunion this weekend.
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 5:08 am
By: Lib Campbell
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North Carolina’s 58 community colleges are the red-headed stepchildren of our education system.
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 9:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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You have taken the spotlight off North Carolina in expelling two Black Representatives from the floor of your legislature. Elected Representatives.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:10 am
By: Lib Campbell
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For more than two centuries Americans have believed that our way of governing was best. Instead of having an autocrat or small group ruling us, we have held to the principle of majority rule. And it has served us well.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 6:23 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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We are twenty months away from the 2024 elections and already candidates for governor have declared they are running.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 4:33 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Tonight, playing the piano through the score of Les Mis, I had an epiphany. Empty Chairs and Empty Tables. One Day More. A Little Drop of Rain.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 8:52 am
By: Lib Campbell
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I must go down to the sea again…to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask…. is for highway 12 to be rebuilt. And for county, state or federal money to pay for beach renourishment, so my house will not be swept into the ocean.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 2:06 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Rising tides, coupled with beach erosion are destroying once beautiful waterfront properties, causing them to crumble or be uninhabitable.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 12:37 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The list of toxic accidents in the United States is long. I use the term accidents loosely, because some of the toxicity that has poisoned land and river is a consequence of bad decisions, disregard for the safety of people and animals, and a general carelessness of creation.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 8:10 am
By: Lib Campbell
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For more than a decade we’ve studied the problem exhaustively, we’ve talked about it almost incessantly, we’ve engaged the latest curriculum du jour, and have spent more than $50 million dollars, yet we still can’t solve the mystery of our children’s reading proficiency.
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 9:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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When the Affordable Care Act was passed it contained an option for states to extend Medicaid coverage to adults with an income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, beginning in January 2104.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 10:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In my family the song “Daddy sang base, Mama sang tenor” was not far from the truth. Only in my family Daddy sang bass, mama played the piano.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 4:08 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Triangle Business Journal (TBJ) recently announced the winners of its 2023 Women in Business Awards, naming Jama Campbell, State Employees’ Credit Union’s (SECU’s) executive director of the SECU Foundation, as a recipient.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 11:29 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Bright. Shiny. Treat. That’s what Wordle is. The New York Times started a trend in a game that takes the Jumbles to a new height.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 8:59 am
By: Lib Campbell
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You have to give legislators credit for identifying an issue that has needed addressing for decades. They introduced a bill that would eliminate the power of the sitting governor to name the members of the State Board of Education.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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When NBC news host, Lester Holt said there had been 68 mass shootings in 2023, my mouth dropped. That’s more mass shootings than days so far in 2023.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 9:03 am
By: Lib Campbell
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It’s an axiom as old as history. “Those who have no power want it, and those who have power want more of it.” The current power struggles in North Carolina politics are proof of the truth.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 12:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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You are almost home. Your family is gathered, whispering sweet words of gratitude and blessing for your exemplary life. We all thank you for the witness of a good and gracious life. Prayers for ease and peace in this transition.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 1:46 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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In the Pantheon of notable North Carolina public servants none stands so tall as Jim Broyhill. The Broyhill family story is essentially the North Carolina story. Starting from humble beginnings, family members learned to work hard, persevere, be humble and serve others.
Published: Friday, February 24th, 2023 @ 8:35 am
By: Tom Campbell
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You don’t need to go to Florida for sunshine. Sunshine is lighting the way here in North Carolina as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, also presented as the “Parents Bill of Rights” bill is making its way through the legislature, soon to become law.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2023 @ 9:53 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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