Updated December 16, 2020 8:39 a.m. EST
CBC Editorial: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020; Editorial #8618
The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company.
Why is it that too many of our elected leaders – most of whom are not public health experts – can’t bring themselves to heed advice from people who know what they are talking about? This tone deafness doesn’t differentiate on the prominence of power. It stretches from the White House in Washington to the town hall in Youngsville.
Earlier this month Franklin County’s Health Director urged Youngsville Mayor Fonzie Flowers to cancel the Dec. 5 Christmas Parade. Flowers responded defiantly: If a Wal-Mart, a Target, a Lowe s, a Home Depot if they can have the number of people they have in their store in an enclosed environment, we can certainly have a couple hundred Youngsville residents along our parade route.
Updated December 14, 2020 5:37 a.m. EST
CBC Editorial: Monday, Dec. 14, 2020; Editorial #8617
The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company.
Let’s be frank. The motive of the seven North Carolina Republicans who signed onto Texas’ baseless challenge to the legitimacy of millions of votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin has nothing to do with any actual desire to see Donald Trump keep the presidency.
They know that Democrat Joseph Biden got more votes – both popular and electoral – than Trump. They know there wasn’t any of the massive fraud that Trump baselessly claimed nor do they (or Trump) have any evidence of vote-counting errors or widespread technology failures. The six incumbents who won re-election did not utter a peep to question the legitimacy of votes in their own successful campaigns.
Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 The lesson in the compromise over $30 million for broadband expansion: Stop arguing over what you agree on. Get the job done. Expand highspeed broadband so every North Carolinian has easy and affordable access to this most basic 21st century utility.