Our View: Two wrongs certainly don't make it right
Thumbs-down: to the North Carolina General Assembly following its decision to not fund the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation. Now, after identifying and contacting eugenics victims throughout the state, including the High Country, the state dangles a promise of $50,000 in compensation but fails to pay for the initiative. This is what passes for progress in North Carolina: The first round of maltreatment and disrespect against these victims went on for about 35 years. Today, it took us only two years to identify, find, maltreat and disrespect this group all over again.
Thumbs-up: to myriad Fourth of July celebrations in the High Country. With firework launches resounding from our mountains, you haven't heard a July 4 celebration until you've heard it in Watauga County. Our community parades and celebrations were a fitting tribute to the Independence Day celebration of our nation.
Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: you decide. Summer heats up, and up, in the High Country. New record highs set on Grandfather Mountain cast no shadow on the season — but do raise safety concerns, especially among the elderly and the very young. Now, if we could only muster a bit of snow come winter.
Thumbs-up: to a story of survival and faith. Following an explosion on an oil rig and third-degree burns on 95 percent of his body, Billy Jack McDaniel should not be alive today. He and his family share their story of recovery in the book, “Dead Man Breathing,” and in person at Bethel Park Sunday morning.
Thumbs-up: to myriad Fourth of July celebrations in the High Country. With firework launches resounding from our mountains, you haven't heard a July 4 celebration until you've heard it in Watauga County. Our community parades and celebrations were a fitting tribute to the Independence Day celebration of our nation.
Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: you decide. Summer heats up, and up, in the High Country. New record highs set on Grandfather Mountain cast no shadow on the season — but do raise safety concerns, especially among the elderly and the very young. Now, if we could only muster a bit of snow come winter.
Thumbs-up: to a story of survival and faith. Following an explosion on an oil rig and third-degree burns on 95 percent of his body, Billy Jack McDaniel should not be alive today. He and his family share their story of recovery in the book, “Dead Man Breathing,” and in person at Bethel Park Sunday morning.