Opinion
-
They said it…
“We actually bought the inn in 2017 and then reopened it in 2018,” she said. “The previous owner was a very talented architect and he had bought it from Hunter Cole. In that time, he had made all the rooms with ensuite bathrooms and made it into a bed-and-breakfast. Unfortunately,…
-
DeLap: The new normal after COVID didn’t change addictions
Family movie night in the average home before the new millennium or the internet had a much different face. Since the coronavirus that face has been altered somewhat, but from the rumors circling, “THE GRID” was just as addicting in a pandemic, and in some cases, more so.
-
-
DaLap: Economic changes can take away ‘how it always was’
As the new editor of the Bladen Journal, one of the things I had to do right away was sharpen my pencil, evaluate our bottom lines and ensure the strength of the paper – making sure that it didn’t go the way of many papers that have closed up shop.
-
DeLap: Economic changes can take away ‘how it always was’
As the new editor of the Bladen Journal, one of the things I had to do right away was sharpen my pencil, evaluate our bottom lines and ensure the strength of the paper – making sure that it didn’t go the way of many papers that have closed up shop.
-
Lowry: Kids shouldn’t be on social media at all
Mark Zuckerberg is very sorry. His apology at a Senate hearing to the families of victims of online child sex abuse was dramatic, and the human thing to do in the moment, although he was pressured into it under persistent questioning from Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri. Zuckerberg’s…
-
MARTIN: Jill McCorkle does it again with another story
Jill McCorkle takes ordinary people, puts them in common situations, and makes extraordinary stories. She has done it again in her latest collection of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”
-
Chevron doctrine wouldn’t exist but for Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is weighing the future of “Chevron deference” — a doctrine of the court’s own devising that has given government agencies expansive freedom to make public policy. If this strikes you as an arcane legal debate of no great moment, think again. It’s a matter of great political…
-
BLADEN COUNTY SCHOOLS
-
BLADEN COUNTY SCHOOLS
-
HOOD: Insurance commissioner seeks third term
If incumbent Mike Causey wins the Republican nod for insurance commissioner in March, it’ll be his seventh nomination. That will break the current record of six nominations for insurance commissioner — a record currently shared by Causey and the late Jim Long, a Democrat.
-
‘Masters of the Air’ does a public service
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have once again done a public service.
