Corey Friedman

United States, Wilson

Executive Editor at Restoration News Media

First Amendment firebrand. Editor, @TheWilsonTimes & executive editor, @RestoringNews. Legislative committee chair, @TheNCPress. Fluent in #1A, #opengov, #ncpol

Articles

Fiscal fantasies threaten economic future

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |John Hood

I wrote my first book — about what’s now called corporate ESG (for environmental, social and governance criteria) — in 1996. After six subsequent works of serious nonfiction, I redirected my authorial energies in 2020 toward writing historical-fantasy novels set in early America. Patriot soldiers battle flying demons. Daniel Boone hunts fire-spitting salamanders. Shadowy mages ensorcell Washington politicians into committing […]
It’s time to address ‘church hurt’

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Martin Henson

“Church hurt” is exactly what it sounds like: some harm that occurred in the church that leaves a lasting impression. Millions of Christians have left the church in recent years because of church hurt. Now, I think it’s time to address it. If the church really wants to entice an increasingly nonreligious society to come back into its fold, it’s […]
NC can’t let sore-loser candidates undermine our democracy

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Billy Corriher

A few months after I left my hometown of Cherryville, North Carolina for college, I voted in my first presidential election. Like so many people in America, I was shocked to watch the disputed 2000 election play out in Florida and then the U.S. Supreme Court. One side accused the other of trying to change the rules after the election so its candidate would come out ahead. I was even more shocked, decades later, when something similar happened in North Carolina.
Trump’s support skews NC voters’ take on tariffs

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Mitch Kokai

More North Carolina voters oppose tariffs than support them, according to the latest Carolina Journal Poll. The same poll shows three out of every four likely voters in the Tar Heel State agree tariffs will raise prices for consumers. The numbers almost certainly would look even worse for tariff supporters without President Donald Trump’s steadfast support of the controversial policy. Four questions from the May 11-13 poll focused directly on tariffs.
NCWU graduate Rizzo to pursue doctoral degree

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

ROCKY MOUNT — Andy Rizzo, a North Carolina Wesleyan University Class of 2025 graduate, will pursue a Ph.D. in marine biology at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rizzo earned Bachelor of Science degrees in biology and environmental science during her stay in Rocky Mount, all while serving in leadership roles on campus.
Our Opinion: Eyes on Main Street switches lens to ‘selfie mode’

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

THUMBS UP to the Eyes on Main Street Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival, which has set our civic camera to selfie mode for the downtown photography expo’s 11th edition. Founder and artistic director Jerome De Perlinghi made this year’s show all about Wilson, curating images that former Eyes on Main Street artists-in-residence captured during their monthlong Wilson sojourns. “There is an […]
Talk Back: Grad’s perfect attendance; Letterman dines in Wilson

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

Each day, The Wilson Times shares stories, columns and breaking news updates on our Facebook page for an audience of more than 45,000 followers. Selected comments appear below. Opinions expressed are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Wilson Times. On Wilson Preparatory Academy valedictorian James Brown III earning perfect attendance throughout elementary, middle and […]
Dingbatters and Hoi Toiders

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |D.G. Martin

Are you a dingbatter? This word is used by local people in Ocracoke to describe the crowds of tourists and other visitors. It is better on Ocracoke Island to be an Ocracoker, with longstanding connections to the island, its people and its special dialect, known as the Ocracoke Brogue. The complicated and rich story of the brogue is expanded in […]
Why I’m optimistic about NC Democrats

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Alexander Jones

Between 1984 and 2008, North Carolina Democrats never received more than 42% of the vote in a presidential election. Even when Southerner Bill Clinton nearly won the state in 1992, he garnered exactly that number, and the reason that George H.W. Bush didn’t easily dispatch him appeared to be that Ross Perot siphoned off a portion of the state’s natural […]
Fallen veterans honored on Memorial Day

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Drew C. Wilson

About 300 people, including many veterans, came together Monday to honor those who have lost their lives in American conflicts around the globe. Emerson Ray Chambers, chairman of the Wilson Committee on Patriotism and past commander of Wilson County Disabled American Veterans Chapter 8, welcomed attendees on the Wilson County Courthouse plaza. One minute of silence was observed in honor of Eddie M.