New officers that are taught bad culture or habits by others that was taught to them isn’t good.

“It’s 10:00. Do you know where your children are?” In 1967 and running through the late 1980s, a media campaign asked this question of parents as high crime rates resulted in concern and community-wide curfews around the country. In the dark of night, bad people were doing bad things to good people, or anyone the bad people could find.

We can honor his memory by returning to civil discussions over our issues and reaching out to those who oppose us to work together for the greater good.

Many members of my family visited us this summer.

I encourage you to share your examples of glimmers of hope. A single glimmer or spark can be the beginning of a bonfire.  

At the top of her lungs, in a waiting room full of patients, she screamed at me, “You are a male sexist chauvinist pig”.

Last night, I attended the Jackson County Board of Commissioners meeting specifically to apologize to Commissioner Charles Elders.

Decisions made at all levels of government (President and Congress in Washington, DC, General Assembly in Raleigh and County Commissioners, Sheriffs, Courts, etc.) impact your daily lives.