Pennsylvania officials say that have found a case of voter fraud in the 2020 General Election, a ballot cast for out-going President Trump. Th…
Our country is in trouble for a variety of reasons. Last year like no other in our modern history has seen citizens divided over our direction…
After retiring recently I accepted a part-time job at one of Burke County's Waste Convenience Sites. As an "essential" worker you learn quickl…
It is important than all of us Republicans and Democrats alike those on the political and the right and those on the left to pause and to thin…
The greatest scam
Donald Trump lost by more than 5 million votes and the same Electoral College majority that he won in 2016 and called a “landslide.”
It’s started already.
Stop the nonsense
This year, and likely next, will largely be determined by the spread of Covid-19 and the magnitude of our efforts to contain it. It will be a …
We know COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire through our nation’s nursing homes. With only a few weeks until the district work period in August…
I was so happy to read the letter to the editor (Friday, Aug. 7) from William Russ about moving the Confederate monument next to the courthous…
Morganton houses one of the largest psychiatric hospital in the state, but if you were to take a survey of my graduating class, I would bet mo…
I was born and raised in Morganton and a graduate of Freedom High School. I have several ancestors engraved on the Confederate Monument includ…
Folks, do you not watch the news and comprehend that the Covid-19 pandemic is REAL and SERIOUS? Look at Florida and Arizona and Texas, states …
I found the city council’s response to the faith leader’s letter severely lacking in qualities of public leadership. The letter is unnecessari…
In the twilight of my life I weep for America.
The Mayor and City Council of the City of Morganton submit this letter in response to the letter published in the News-Herald on July 9, 2020,…
Dear Mayor Thompson, Members of the Morganton City Council, and City Manager Sandy,
To: Mayor Black, Manager Eckard, the Five Members of the Town Council (Mr. Thompson, Ms. Stevenson, Mr. Sweezy, Ms. Hildebran, Mr. Ogle), Fina…
There is much about our current president which makes him unfit for office, but it is perhaps most illustrative to look at his leadership duri…
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