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On Wednesday, Nov. 6, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmeyer in New York struck down a rule proposed by the Trump Administration that allowed health care providers to refuse to participate in abortions or render other services on moral or religious grounds.
One week from today is Veterans Day. The name of the day is not Veteran’s Day – as if the day belongs to a single veteran. Nor is the name of the day Veterans’ Day – as if it belongs only to veterans. Veterans Day is a holiday established for all of us to have an opportunity to remember and honor all veterans.
Roughly two decades ago, the Lord blessed me with my first grandchildren. In the flush of early grandparenting, I sometimes wrote about Caitlyn, Courtney, Haley, Taylor and Jaxen. Several years passed before a new crop of grandkids made their appearances. Today I have 12 grandchildren on earth – and one in Heaven, Caitlyn. I dubbed the older group of five “The Old Guard.” The eight younger ones are “The Young Guns.”
SAFE was established in 1985. In March 1986, the first SAFE shelter opened its doors. SAFE answers approximately 850 hotline phone calls and referrals each year. From 1985 through 2015, SAFE provided 34,700 nights of shelter to more than 3,750 victims of domestic violence.
For the fifth year the CSS Neuse Foundation is joining efforts with Ironclad Races, Inc., to promote a half marathon, a 5K race – and Breakfast on the Boat.
Each year September 17 comes and goes with little notice. September 17 should rank with July 4th as a date we celebrate.
Do you have any idea how much of the Lenoir County budget our commissioners actually control? At most, only 22 percent of the county budget is spent at the discretion of the commissioners. Seventy-eight percent of the budget is allocated to meet mandates.
The second Friday in September has become fixed … sort of … as the date for “Wings Over the Neuse.” “Wings” is the single largest fund-raiser each year for the CSS Neuse Foundation, caretaker of the full-size replica of the CSS Ram Neuse.
Neuse News columnist Mike Parker investigates why a quarter of North Carolina’s counties have not been represented in the U.S. House for months.
With a new school year beginning to day for a lot of kids, columnist Mike Parker would like to address an important group — the parents.
On Saturday, July 13, I was working as a docent on the CSS Neuse II. In times past, tour guides, aka docents, took people through the replica and told about the history and life of sailors in the 1860’s. As foot traffic has picked up through the years, the Neuse Foundation installed signs that give information guides shared on the tours.
On Tuesday, July 9, my wife and I attended “North Carolina and Gettysburg,” one of the presentations during the first-ever Adult Summer Reading Program at the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library. The focus is “Rediscovering the Civil War.”
Neuse News columnist Mike Parker challenges readers to take the same test 23 people passed to become new citizens on Independence Day.
As the Fourth of July comes later this week, we should use this opportunity to follow the advice of the North Carolina Constitution as we reflect on one of this nation’s most important founding documents, The Declaration of Independence.
