Category: Letters to the Editor

  Walk To End Alzheimer’s Dear Editor, I am excited to serve as the volunteer event chair for the Guilford County Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Oct. 19. This cause is very personal to me, as I lost my father to this disease two...

I’m still waiting for someone to give me the definition of an “assault weapon.” What is it? Describe it. You hear the overwhelming number of people including, surprisingly and unfortunately, Republican and conservative news commentators use the term. Again I ask…what is an assault weapon?

Main stream media is calling for increased pressure against the “Alt Right.”  Words have been given increased power due to political correctness advocates.  Scholars claim “incorrect” words are equal to physical abuse.

In these difficult times in politics and in society, the art of listening and compromise have almost become lost arts.  We, and our elected officials, far too often have our own agendas and ideas and care little about the opinions of others.

In the court of public opinion, data shouldn’t be filtered/cleansed by third party “fact checkers” to protect the “innocent.”  “Fact checkers” inability to differentiate fact from opinion reduces credibility. Communicating different opinions is not a lie, just as communicating agreement is not truth.