"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad" — Albert Camus
My heart broke Wednesday when I read the police report from Chief Jeff Hinton — a woman whose jaw was broken, allegedly by her boyfriend.
We feel like we know this person but have never met her.
Lincoln Heights is already home to many environmental hazards, starting with the dye and waste from local textile mills 100 years ago, continuing with two of Roanoke Rapids’ landfills in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and most recently with the yard waste landfill and the illegal dumping that still plagues our community.
This is the show the Roanoke Rapids Theatre needed.
For the past several months we’ve been covering a special girl, an American Pit Bull Terrier named Elle.
Although this piece stands as the opinion of rrspin.com, I want my name to go with it.
This column is dedicated to Todd Wetherington, Becky Wetherington, Crystal Edwards, Richard Gould and Cliff Jones and others who have worked passionately in the newspaper field.
The City Council gave anyone who wanted to speak an opportunity to do so at the special session regarding merchandise on the avenue Tuesday night. We have to remember the state owns the right of way and the city has to protect the people and people in wheelchairs who walk on the sidewalks.
Our newspaper recently worked on a project on infant mortality among African Americans in our community. Rates rivaled those of third world countries here in the capital city of the nation’s fourth largest state.
Lyndon Johnson once said of Gerald Ford that he “played too much football with his helmet off.”
Ask me why I got in newspapers and I’ll give you a short answer to a short question.
The way that people consume information is changing rapidly, and I hear frequently that the death of newspapers is imminent.
This weekend you will notice a change in rrspin.com. Nothing major, just some good, old black and white photos and some columns about newspapers.
We work with the residents of Lincoln Heights, who are strongly opposed to the city’s consideration of a solid waste transfer station on Hinson Street. The location of a facility near Lincoln Heights would disproportionately impact this historic African American neighborhood which has already been burdened with Roanoke Rapids’ garbage since 1959.
I have been in worse, namely Floyd and some other torrential hurricanes.
