Latest Opinions
COMMENTARY: Let’s use this election to get a fresh start
Our Tribe went through a very trying time a couple years ago, but I do believe, in my heart, that someday we will come back together and support each other and lift each other up.
EDITORIAL: Back to nature
Because we live here and are around it all the time, we take the natural beauty and untouched wilderness for granted.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: Jesus is the chief cornerstone
Moses, as deliverer of the Israelites, while bringing an estimated three million of them out of Egypt, became angry with them at Mt. Horeb.
COMMENTARY: Enrollment records could be used for census
The last official census of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was conducted in 2001. The next one was supposed to have been conducted ten years later in 2011, but it wasn’t which puts the Tribe eight years out of compliance with Section 19 of the Charter and Governing Document.
COMMENTARY: MOMO-mania
Do we create the panic and danger of which we are afraid?
EDITORIAL: Walking and chewing gum at the same time
Some in our community imply that highly visible economic development projects are being given the total focus of the Tribal Council and administration at the expense of municipal projects. This is just not true.
SPEAKING OF FAITH: God is light
This is the message he has given us to announce to you: God is light and there is no darkness in him at all.
COMMENTARY: Performing arts important to well-rounded education
In the past few years, we have been lucky to have a program emerge here in Cherokee that has entertained and brought a finer part of life to us. The Cherokee Performing Arts Program, comprised of middle school and high school students at Cherokee Central Schools, has raised the bar on school theater productions statewide.
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