To the Editor:

The Eagles rock band has interpreted life in America over the last five decades. Yet, the lines that fit the last two decades best may be: “Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table. But you only want the ones that you can’t get.” 

Despite the intention by some commissioners to make the school board race partisan in Macon County, it will remain non-partisan, in part due to an outpouring of opposition from both the public and members of the current school board. 

National, state and local offices will be on the ballot across North Carolina for a high-stakes 2024 election, and it all begins next week, as candidates will begin submitting paperwork to launch their campaigns.

To the Editor:

This is a reply to the September 20 letter to the editor titled, “Rule of law proven a farce amid corruption.”

To the Editor:

Some people still believe that America is involved in a traditional Democratic/Republican political struggle.

To the editor:

Remember the saying from Vietnam days that we had to destroy the village in order to save it?

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

A strange paradox is alive in American politics.

Donald Trump is a paradigm of vices who deserved both of his impeachments and deserves indictment — which may happen in August — for trying to steal the 2020 election that he falsely claimed was stolen from him. 

AA proposed constitution for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is facing opposition from the EBCI Attorney General’s Office following Tribal Council’s unanimous vote April 6 to place it on the ballot for referendum this September.