I don’t want to write this column. I have been avoiding it for nearly a week, since I saw the 11-year-old Mexican girl sobbing, uncontrollably, “My daddy isn’t a criminal. I want my daddy.”
We treat it like a joke. The Congress and the media are obsessed. Is Donald Trump a “racist”? Is he the illegitimate half-brother of Vladimir Putin’s cousin?
Over the past couple of weeks, I and Pilot Publisher David Woronoff have fielded questions from folks about the paper’s Letters to the Editor section of the Opinion page. We’ve been asked — in ways ranging from polite to incredulous — what our standards are for publishing letters we receive.
This column originally appeared May 2, 2007, in the wake of the Virginia Tech mass shooting, which was carried out by a disturbed man and resulted in 33 deaths. (The writer also touched on the subject in a different column on Aug. 28, 2016.)
I have been a small business owner in Moore County for 30 years and have been co-owner of Southern Pines Equine Associates for the past 25 years.
Currently most of the world runs on fossil fuels, and at some point in the future we will run out of coal and oil. It is therefore important to continue to develop renewable energy sources.
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