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Charging Stations. Ipad Stands. Literature and Brochure Stands. There were too few relevant candidate forums and no debates, especially at the district level. Consequently, voter awareness of the candidates and the critical issues that impact the residents of Fayetteville is lacking. During the past several weeks, I have fielded many personal calls and requests from friends, family and residents asking me, “Who should I vote for?
However, here are my assessments of all 20 candidates. These are based on their achievements, community involvement, work ethic, integrity and overall willingness and desire to represent all Fayetteville residents of all districts.
These candidates know and love this community and have demonstrated their advocacy for doing what’s in the best interest of Fayetteville’s citizens, businesses and organizations while enhancing our quality of life through better and more efficient government. I have bolded the candidates demonstrating the values I feel Fayetteville needs to move successfully into the 21st century. Wright, Sr. Kinston – incumbent. Most of my preferred candidates, not all, favor term limits and adding four at-large seats to the Fayetteville City Council.
This would give Fayetteville citizens six votes when choosing municipal leadership, rather than only two one for Mayor, four for at-large council members, and one for their district. Many pundits are calling this a “friends and family” election, meaning that because of the collective barriers to voting mentioned above, the winning candidates will be determined by how well they turn out the vote. One thing you can count on, and I have said this many times before, is that we will ultimately end up with the Fayetteville leadership we deserve.
Trigger warning: Today, we enter Room at the Overlook Hotel. I will wait while the room empties out. Tick, tock. Everybody out of the pool? Halloran is talking with Danny about what happened in the Overlook Hotel? I will mansplain it to you. Danny is a little boy who has moved to the Overlook Hotel, where his father is going to spend the winter as the caretaker for the empty resort.
Danny correctly intuits there is something bad about the Overlook. The hotel cook, Mr. Halloran, tells Danny that a lot of things happened at the Overlook, and not all of them were good. So, stay out! Stay out! The year of our Lord is the chronological equivalent of Room This year we are all in Room A lot of stuff happened in As Mr.
Halloran said, not all of it was good. These topics have no common ground between opposing parties. They tend to offend.
This column was written the same day of the Highland Park mass shooting. Accordingly, I am cranky about gun violence while producing this stain on western literature.
By the time this doggerel hits the streets, there will probably have been yet another mass murdering. They seem to be rolling in about every 10 days. It is difficult to keep track of the latest fresh horror without a program.
Mass shootings prove once again that crocodile tears, thoughts and prayers are not a defense against a moron with a grudge and an AR style semi-automatic rifle. Mass shootings claim elementary students, parade watchers, church goers and grocery shoppers. They keep happening.
At Uvalde, a whole passel of good guys with guns stood in a school hallway while a moron with a gun killed kids and their teachers. Big Tobacco could make the same argument about cigarettes. A pack of cigarettes just lays there and does not hurt anyone. But when someone picks up the pack and starts smoking, the innocent little cigarettes kill people.
When a moron picks up a gun and starts shooting, the guns kill people. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing abortion as a federal constitutional right. This delighted the anti-abortion folks and angered the pro-choice side. For the foreseeable future, all Supreme Court decisions will be based on simple arithmetic: six is greater than three.
Other people disagree. We have entered the wonderful world of living in a theocracy. When religion becomes law, there will be a bad moon rising. Trouble is on the way. Any readers left? Are you mad yet? The six can change any rules to suit their politically and theologically correct thoughts. Math rules. Math conquers all. Six is more than three. The current Supreme Court can overturn any precedent it chooses.
Apologies for this rant. This column tries to avoid doom scrolling. Get your bad news elsewhere. Goodbye to Room A return to ridiculous topics next time. Publisher’s Note: Unfortunately, lies and misrepresentations of the Vote Yes initiative are creating a significant injustice for the Black community, by the Black community.
In essence, this proposal to add four at-large seats on the council with five district seats is not a racial issue by any stretch of the imagination. Approving and passing this proposal will allow every Fayetteville citizen to have a voice in choosing Fayetteville’s elected officials. Under the current system, citizens get only two votes. Under the proposed plan, each citizen would receive six votes.
One for Mayor, one for their district council member, and four at-large council members. Every citizen benefits! Much discussion lately has been aimed at low voter turnout at the polls during election time.
With 10 elected officials running our city, we ask citizens to leave their homes, families and places of employment and travel to a precinct polling location to cast a ballot for only two out of 10 candidates. Fayetteville residents obviously do not see the value in that, yet those currently on the city council ignore this fact so as not to weaken or jeopardize their position.
As a result, thousands of residents are being represented or misrepresented by unqualified candidates elected by only a few hundred votes or less.
For our community to move forward into a prosperous 21st century, we need good ethical people with common sense, intelligence and leadership abilities. Without it, crime, overall community safety, homelessness, affordable housing, infrastructure and stormwater issues and trash-litter problems will continue to escalate throughout our city.
So, democracy is a form of government that gives power to the people. Lately, America’s democracy has been strained at all levels. First, there’s the U. House Jan. Second, the U. Supreme Court has issued some controversial opinions this term: upended a year-old precedent on abortion, expanded gun rights for the first time in a decade, bolstered religious rights, notably those of Christians and declared that a violation of Miranda does not necessarily constitute a violation of the Constitution.
Passionate opinions have caused demonstrations on both sides of the issues. Democracy is a model form of government, but it’s not a guarantee. Life won’t always go the way you want it to sometimes. Democracy is supposed to allow all citizens an opportunity to have an equal voice, and it achieves that purpose most of the time. Democracy is imperfect but inherently and highly flexible. What happens in Raleigh and Washington, D. First, municipal governments impact constituents far more frequently and positively than either state or federal legislators.
Second, citizens can have far more influence at the local level than they ever will at higher echelons. One-stop voting for Fayetteville’s municipal election is from July 7 through July The General Election is July Voter turnout is predicted to be very low.
The power rests with the people, but that power can’t be realized if citizens don’t vote. Fayetteville elected officials are presently under a council-manager form of government. The council comprises the mayor and nine council representatives elected to single-member districts. Lately, the question has become, as Fayetteville is evolving, should it continue with all single-member districts, or is the time ripe for change?
A Vote Yes Fayetteville initiative recently secured 5, signatures from city residents to change the Fayetteville City Council from nine single-member districts to a combination of five single-member districts and four at-large districts.
If the Vote Yes initiative is successful, Fayetteville City voters could cast six votes — one for Mayor, four for at-large council members and a district council member.
Fundamental fairness dictates Vote Yes supporters deserve an equal voice, and we expect this matter to be on the November ballot. The current council has 10 members — eight are African American, including the mayor. The mayor and several African-American council members have voiced concerns about the proposed change. It is rumored heavily in the Black community that racism is behind the call for change since eight out of 10 present members of the council are African American.
Vote Yes supporters, including two former mayors, two former mayors pro tem and two past Fayetteville City Council members, deny the race allegation. The Vote Yes initiative began the signature collection process a year ago.
Is the proposed change about race? Thus far, the allegations appear unfounded. I know players on both sides of the issue, and I believe this is more about trust than race. I fully understand some members of the Black community holding the white community as suspect, but declaring unfounded fears as racial motivation is unfair to both sides of the process.
Again, democracy ought to give power to the people and provide an opportunity for an equal voice. Pause the racially-charged rhetoric and let the people decide at the polls. Indeed, the ability to raise enough money to run at large is not racial. It’s economics. The river runs deep, though. Moreover, other than emergencies, I believe a little thought goes a long way before action. I take the collective charge to the Church capital C seriously. I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
This is clearly a call to unity. There is no doubt that we live in a world and culture that adopts rules and enacts legislation that runs counter to the Truth of who God calls us to be.
Yet, we must endure and even flourish. Exercising on the beach comes naturally. Many people jog, walk, walk their dogs, play in the surf, dig holes, build sand art, look for shells, fish and hunt for shells at night. I recently visited my cousin, who has a sixth-floor condo in North Myrtle Beach.
My year-old cousin spends most of her day walking the beach, looking for shells in the surf, and if you met her, you would see the benefits from walks, jogs, hunting for shells and walks in the water and think she was much younger! A great view of the ocean and people-watching are added benefits! Each morning I took my mat out and did my barre workout. There is something about stepping off the mat and digging those toes in the sand. The rewards of beach exercise are subliminal because you do not realize how many muscles you use, and there is beautiful sunshine and sand.
Digging holes and making sand art involves all the movement patterns and use of muscle groups. Playing in the surf or hunting for shells requires a test of balance and strength with the force of the rolling waves. Walking seems to be effortless, and before you know it, you have walked a long distance and going back turns into a headwind or vice versa.
There are many benefits to walking and jogging on the beach, and walking in sand is one of them, whether you are barefoot or have shoes on, and it is less stressful than walking on a hard surface. Your calf muscles work harder to push along the surface. By walking at a slower pace, the uneven variation in the sand requires more effort and about three times more energy than walking on a hard surface. Jogging also requires more energy, and the movement pattern is less stressful on your joints because the sand acts as a cushion.
Jogging on the beach can build your strength while stabilizing your muscles and coordination. It takes more effort to stabilize your core on uneven surfaces.
Your body begins to develop a natural and very efficient running form while adjusting to the instability. Running on sand has a long history of training benefits for sports.
Top runners have made the beach a part of training for race preparations. Going into the surf to swim, board or hunt for shells is a good core and balanced workout. There are guidelines for walking or jogging on the beach, especially if you do it frequently. Injuries can occur because of the increased demand on your soles, hamstrings and calves. Walking in the sand with bare feet is fine for shorter distances, but longer distances should be undertaken with proper walking shoes to avoid shin splints.
The slope of the beach can provide a challenge for stabilizing muscles, leading to pain or soreness. If you run or frequently walk, change the direction that you are going and go at either high or low tide. The sun can cause you to underestimate the impact of the temperature and sun rays on your skin. Walking with a water bottle and wearing sunscreen, a hat and sunglasses are always advisable.
Live, love life and enjoy the beach! Summertime for young people should offer fun, friendship and great memories, and what can be more fun than a cool, refreshing swim? Sadly, every summer brings the news that someone in our community, usually a young person, has drowned.
Why is this the case, and what do we need to know before heading to the water? According to the World Health Organization, drowning is the third leading cause of accidental death worldwide, largely affecting children and teenagers.
Males are especially at risk, with twice the mortality rate of females. The male brain certainly bears examining. Young males, in particular, are more likely to take risks, such as swimming alone or in secluded waters not authorized for recreational activity. Males of all ages succumb to predictable notions of invincibility and bravado. The point here is not to assign blame to drowning victims or their families but rather to spark a discussion.
It is not they who are tragically tone-deaf. It is society at large for not giving drowning the urgency it demands. Adults, this is where you come in. First of all, we need to know what drowning looks like. Contrary to the popular notion of someone flailing madly in the water, experts agree it usually happens in silence.
It can occur quickly, in as little as a minute. A swimmer with his mouth open, gasping for air, his head bobbing in and out of the water, needs immediate help. Hair blocking the eyes or forehead and trying to swim in a specific direction but with no progress are other danger signs. Safety experts agree on a few key suggestions: don’t go swimming alone, learn CPR, avoid alcohol before swimming and boating, add fences, alarms and cameras to home swimming pools and swim only in designated waters secluded spots pose such risks as rocks, debris, currents and extreme depths not always anticipated.
Most importantly, encourage swimming lessons. In a nutshell, supervise. Supervise the inexperienced swimmers, and supervise the experienced. In addition to adult supervision, encourage young swimmers to look out for each other. Fifty years ago this month, I lost a dear family member to drowning. Surviving family members tend to torture themselves, wondering what they could have done differently.
We endlessly ponder how far our best efforts go before fate takes over, but, as mere humans, our best efforts are all we have. News reports alone can’t convey the loss felt by families and communities touched by drowning. Individual stories are, in fact, chapters in a national tragedy, but we as a society reflexively write them all off as an unfortunate offshoot of an otherwise carefree season. My wish is that young people enjoy their summers and let go, if only temporarily, of care and worry while still looking out for themselves and each other.
Our job as adults is to foster the perfect balance between having fun and exercising caution. Youth is fleeting enough; let us hold onto its energy and innocence for as long as we can. If you live in Cumberland County, the chances are good that you, someone in your family or a friend is a state employee. Cumberland County is well within driving distance to the Triangle, home to our state capital and the workforce that supports state operations.
In addition, various state departments and agencies have offices all over North Carolina, employing workers at all levels, including hundreds in our community. Most of them take their job responsibilities seriously while under increasing pressure and enjoying little public support in this era of anti-government sentiment.
More and more public service employees at the state and local levels are deciding with their feet and taking their skills and experience elsewhere, many enticed by higher pay in the private sector. While the Office of State Human Resources touts 76, state employees, the current reality is much different. COVID probably accounts for some of this, but for whatever reasons, the number of state employees has dropped from 61, in April to 57, today.
Ronnie Condrey of State Human Resources told The News and Observer that unfilled jobs and high turnover are a serious problem for our state. Private sector jobs traditionally pay more.
Public sector jobs generally come with more job protections and more generous benefits, although those have waned in recent years. At the end of the day, though, public sector pay has to be enough to live on, and that simply is no longer the case in North Carolina and many local communities. Cities and counties are scrambling to give raises as well, but even when there is the will, the way is difficult in poorer communities.
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