by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 21, 2009 | Opinion
As more than 900 participants gathered at Ridgecrest Conference Center for annual “Missions Extravaganza” of Woman’s Missionary Union of North Carolina Friday afternoon, some got a surprising greeting: the ceiling of the imposing four story porch in...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 20, 2009 | Opinion
My car is only five-and-a-half years old, but it has a lot of miles on it, and things have started to fade away — like the gas gauge, which hasn’t worked in more than a year. I checked on having it fixed, but two different shops told me it would take $900...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 19, 2009 | Opinion
North Carolina is among the states that are looking at “sin taxes” as a relatively easy means for increasing revenue – easy, so long as they can get by the powerful tobacco and alcohol lobbies. There’s just one thing wrong with sin taxes – they...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 18, 2009 | Opinion
North Carolina is among other states that are looking at “sin taxes” as a relatively easy means for increasing revenue — easy, so long as they can get by the powerful tobacco and alcohol lobbies.There’s just one thing wrong with sin taxes...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 16, 2009 | Opinion
I don’t generally watch television dramas — I’ve never seen “24,” “Heroes,” “Numb3rs,” “West Wing,” or “CSI” anywhere. I did watch one episode of “Lost” several years ago, but it...
