We can't think of a single Johnston County town that has ever allowed its citizens to weigh in on the hiring of its chief executive.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 9:28 AM | Full story
Our fear is that the farther people live from downtown, the less often they will go there and spend their money at shops and restaurants.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 9:30 AM | Full story
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Tying water conservation to drought creates exactly the reaction you’d expect when someone sees a flash flood one evening and is told there’s a drought the next: “Yeah, sure.”
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008 9:34 AM | Full story
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Clearly, the school board is committed to its employees; it spent $2.6 million to turn an old three-story classroom building into offices that house about four dozen people. But what about its commitment to gifted students?
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:37 PM | Full story
Smithfield residents can take some comfort in knowing that growth is on its way. The U.S. 70 bypass of Clayton will bring that growth, first to Wilson's Mills, we suspect, but then to Smithfield and Selma.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:36 PM | Full story
The July 4 holiday weekend was one of those times when I was glad to no longer be working for the Associated Press.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:31 PM | Full story
Americans have so much for which to be thankful, especially when compared to others.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2008 2:27 PM | Full story
County and school leaders had to put one project ahead of the other, while looking for extra money needed to complete a second high school.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:00 AM | Full story
Given the price of gasoline today, we’d just as soon live fairly close to the grocery store, other shops and restaurants.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:02 AM | Full story
Stop signs really don’t mean anything; the speeders just roll right on through.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:09 AM | Full story
Digging up dirt on the opponent has become standard operating procedure for major political campaigns in America.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:06 AM | Full story
Season is about more than vacations and cookouts.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2008 10:48 AM | Full story
Updated: Jun. 25, 2008 10:44 AM | Full story
It is true that many students left Neuse Charter School — 28 of 220, or 12.7 percent. But it’s true also that traditional public schools lose students too.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2008 10:27 PM | Full story
Now seems a bad time to place an impact fee on new housing and commercial construction in Benson.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2008 10:29 PM | Full story
A tightening economy meant a tightening budget. As such, the $21.3 billion budget didn’t have much in it to make anybody mad.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2008 12:58 PM | Full story
The murder trial of Lynn Paddock, accused of killing her 4-year-old adopted son in 2006, has proven difficult to cover.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2008 4:14 PM | Full story
Although it has been a while since anyone here at The Herald attended high school, we try to keep in mind that graduation day is a big deal, even to those students who might not want to admit it.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2008 4:16 PM | Full story
There are signs that the state may be poised to take the most significant step on the transportation front since the creation of the urban-loop-building, road-paving Highway Trust Fund in 1989.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2008 4:20 PM | Full story
Our thinking is that people working fewer hours are still glad to have a job. That is to say, the hospital could have chosen to lay off employees.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2008 8:58 AM | Full story
Selma leaders should put their focus on the people who live in mobile homes, not on the folks who own the parks.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2008 9:02 AM | Full story
Bright Beginnings, More at Four and Smart Start might well be having their intended effects. No one should be afraid to find out, to the degree possible, exactly how well each is meeting its goals.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2008 9:06 AM | Full story
Have County Commissioners been playing politics with teacher pay all along?
Updated: May. 28, 2008 9:02 AM | Full story
We think Mr. Biggs earns every penny he is paid.
Updated: May. 28, 2008 9:05 AM | Full story
Corporate donors to politicians of both parties know well that immigration reform lacking some form of amnesty will damage the economy and their bottom line.
Updated: May. 28, 2008 9:08 AM | Full story
Emergency medical service in Johnston ought to be an agency of county government, at least in the neediest of cases.
Updated: May. 21, 2008 1:45 PM | Full story
The reasons that legislators have been a bit short with their reach in recent years are many.
Updated: May. 21, 2008 2:00 PM | Full story
The risk on May 6 was that a lot of money could derail loyalty and discipline, throwing the party into disarray.
Updated: May. 14, 2008 9:16 AM | Full story
Forced annexation is justified when people who live just outside of town benefit from their proximity to town.
Updated: May. 14, 2008 9:19 AM | Full story
Maybe it’s standard operating procedure for national get-out-the-vote groups to fail to read state voter-registration laws, time after time.
Updated: May. 14, 2008 9:25 AM | Full story
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