Opinion
Lori’s grandfather and the Stanley Cup
My wife’s grandfather, William F. Sullivan, once told a newspaperman that one of his “fondest memories was ‘polishing the cup.’”
For the record, he’s referring to Lord Stanley’s Cup, the hockey championship trophy that the Carolina Hurricanes now have in Raleigh after vanquishing the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night after a six-game series, and was in the window of a drugstore in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Many still hungry in the mountains
To the Editor:
Friends and wisitors to Haywood County, we count it as a privilege to volunteer with the anti-hunger program of Haywood Christian Ministry. We sort donated food and produce which is then distributed through the food pantry, food lockers or at feeding sites. We began this work in late 2024, after Hurricane Helene devastated much of our region, leaving many in Haywood County homeless and without access to an adequate source of food.
Ensuring inclusive, evidence-based decision making
To the Editor:
I write as someone with more than 30 years of experience facilitating transparent, evidence-based decision-making across diverse stakeholders, and as a pro-democracy advocate who believes local governance is essential to community health.
We must make systemic changes
To the Editor:
We are fighting the same battles our ancestors fought and that our descendants will fight unless we change how we are governed.
There are a veritable few very wealthy people who influence all people on the planet to do their will. This is not conspiracy theory but recorded history.
Be purposeful and feed the good wolf
There is a Cherokee legend where an elder tells his grandson a story about two wolves. It goes something like this.
“Son, within all of us is a battle of two wolves. One is evil. He is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.”
President is dragging the U.S. down
To the Editor:
Will the USA follow its shamefully incompetent and dishonest “leaders” all the way through the sewage system, to the absolute bottom and the destruction of our United States? I’m ashamed that U.S. citizens have elected such a fool, who then appointed more fools, such that we have an administration, that is comprised entirely of fools.
The myth of male rule
To the Editor:
Patriarchy is not inevitable and having huge swaths of land and people being controlled by a single person is not ordained by God.
We are no longer an agrarian society where the physical strength of men allowed them the advantage in acquiring or defending land. Our institutions must be restructured where cooperation and mutual aid become central to policy.
This administration is a disaster
To the Editor:
“The strength of American government is based on three things: a President that is truthful with the people and who can be counted upon to keep his word, a Congress that ensures that the president follows the law and insists that it controls the spending of all our hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and a Supreme Court whose rulings are fair and just, assuring no man or woman is above the law or favored by the law.
‘Nought may endure but mutability’
My brain was working overtime this morning, and I woke a little before 5 a.m. That was it, couldn’t get back to sleep. That quote above about change from the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was on rewind in my brain as I pondered my day. Why, I don’t know.
The moon was bright and lit up a cloud hanging over our mountain, and a light mist greeted me as I slid into my truck.
