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

Police charge man in son’s shooting death

2 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

NASHVILLE — A man died in the hospital last week after police say his father fatally shot him. Brandon Michael Wallace, 34, succumbed to injuries sustained May 5, when Nashville Police Department officers responding to a distress call found him in a 416 Woodfield Drive home. Wallace was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. After securing the home, officers executed a search warrant and conducted interviews.
Our Opinion: WCC equips grads with keys to opportunity

2 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

THUMBS UP to Wilson Community College and its 258 newest alumni, community members from all walks of life who turned their tassels and toasted the Class of 2025 on Friday. “I feel like it’s a new beginning,” WCC graduate Caleb Patterson told the Times. “We’re starting the next chapter of our lives.” Some grads are getting a jump-start on their […]
Showcase local leaders’ achievements

2 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

Removing history should not be confused with erasing history. Eliminating history is cowardice. The fear that someone, or a group of people, may have done something more important than what you are doing causes the weak to sour on your achievements. Their weakness is their inability to achieve greatness as long as others’ past accomplishments linger in the minds of […]
Agriculture faces severe labor shortage

2 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |John Hood

Recessions hurt. North Carolina’s headline unemployment rate hit 11.2% during the peak of the Great Recession in 2010. During the COVID-era Great Suppression of 2020, it briefly hit a mindboggling 14.2%. During such times, we pretty much all know someone who’s out of a job, even if we’re not. And for every 10 people deemed “unemployed” by the official definition […]
Elm City to lower tax rate, raise water/sewer rate

2 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Christopher Long

ELM CITY — Town commissioners voted 3-1 on Thursday to lower the town’s tax rate and raise the water and sewer rate for the 2025-26 fiscal year. “We’re going down on the taxes and increasing on the water,” Commissioner Vonica Carr said during Thursday night’s special called meeting held to set the town’s tax rate for the 2025-26 budget year. “In my personal opinion, we’ll be able to afford the water rate with going down on our taxes.
Nonprofit seeks volunteers for free 2-day health clinic

5 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

ROCKY MOUNT — Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free dental, vision and medical care to those in need, is seeking volunteer medical, dental and vision professionals and general support staff for its Aug. 9-10 clinic. The two-day clinic is planned at Nash Central High School, 4279 Nash Central High Road, and will be held in collaboration with the Ripple Effects Group. RAM is also in need of general support volunteers to help set up on Friday, Aug.
Prosecutor: Driver texting when he hit troopers

6 days ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Drew Wilson

WILSON — A prosecutor said Monday that a Rocky Mount man was texting while driving when he struck the back of a North Carolina State Highway Patrol cruiser, injuring two troopers in 2021. Peyton Luke David, 23, made an Alford plea of guilty to felony obstruction of justice in a plea arrangement in Wilson County Criminal Superior Court. Then an East Carolina University sophomore, David was headed west on U.S. 264 near Saratoga at 1:12 p.m. on Oct.
Who should manage our $127 billion in pension funds?

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Tom Campbell

The responsibility for investing and managing North Carolina’s public employee pension funds falls completely upon our elected state treasurer. For decades, there has been discussion about whether this is too much responsibility to place on one person’s shoulders. State Treasurer Brad Briner was the latest to pose this question. Some 372,000 public retirees receive retirement checks totaling more than $755 […]
Bring back comics, Dear Abby

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman

I have been a longtime subscriber to The Wilson Times and a number of other local newspapers. Many of these local papers are no more. I see that The Wilson Times has deleted the comics page and Dear Abby. In addition to local news and the editorial page, these were some of my most looked forward to features. Why has […]
A public servant to the last

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

It was 250 years ago this week that the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia to organize America’s rebellion against the British crown. War had broken out a few weeks earlier at Lexington and Concord. But there was as yet no national government, no formal American army or relations with foreign countries and no clear explanation of what the rebellious colonists sought to accomplish.