SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Weekly, Port City Daily publishes numerous news reports pertaining to local government, business, education, politics, development, and the region’s food scene and arts community. Readers often reach out to share opinions or offer insights in response to our coverage. And we welcome the input — so much so we want to share it with the community at large.
Port City Daily will begin to showcase feedback and viewpoints from readers that address top-of-mind topics and issues facing southeastern N.C. We also will share any reporting we have published in regards to concerns readers address.
Want to add to the voices? We want to hear from you. Email [email protected] no more than 200 words in response to an article you’ve read or something you just want to get off your chest, and we will consider publishing it.
Submissions are not a reflection of Port City Daily reporting. Responses are edited only for grammar, spelling and clarity.
On wind turbines
For anyone that thinks these monsters are a good idea just travel west from Niagara Falls to Detroit in Canada and see what these things look like….
They have a limited lifespan, require constant maintenance, and imagine adding salt water and hurricanes to the equation. Solar and even nuclear generation are far more effective means of generating future energy needs.
Keith Keller
Save Downtown Alive
Why not use the Wilson Center parking lot near the convention center that was used during Azalea Festival? It was a natural slope and patrons viewing bands have views of the river.
How about one of those side streets around the Wilson Center?
Please, find a way! Those poor bands and vendors, to be shut out after all of that planning!
Thank you,
James Zanker
Port City Daily primary questionnaires
I must express my appreciation to your paper for providing exactly what I was looking for today — information on the local candidates — in their own words.
This is my first election since transferring my voter registration from Virginia to North Carolina. I didn’t really expect to be able to educate myself the day before the primary. Your paper provided exactly what I needed.
I am also grateful you dropped the paywall for the candidate responses to the questionnaire. Without that, I would have been inclined to close the page, knowing as much about Port City Daily as I do about local candidates.
I am so impressed and grateful — definitely going to look into subscribing today.
Thank you!
Susan Hale Mckibbin
Kure Beach
In response to iFly building proposed along Eastwood Road
Seriously, this thing is bud ugly. Why do the residents of the Eastwood Road area have to be subjected to this kind of ugly development? Put it in an industrial area where it belongs.
We here in East Wilmington know the city council loves this kind of crap, we don’t. Stop subjecting us to this kind of irresponsible development!
Andy Donovan
Wilmington, NC
Promoting environmental protection rule workarounds
This reader comment is in regard to a Mar. 3 Port City Daily article, “County Environmental Organizations To Host Flood Prevention Workshop”
In their own words, civil servants with New Hanover County Cooperative Extension Service and the Soil and Water Conservation District, will provide a workshop for, and I quote: “…consultants in the fields of planning, stormwater engineering and environmental assessments; land developers; real estate professionals and anyone else with an interest in wetland conversions to development uses.”
Instead of working to protect our dwindling pieces of natural heritage, local environmental managers are showing developers how forestry permits can be used to game the land use planning system.
As an example, developer consultants work to convince regulators that wetland soils, ditched for forestry, should be considered uplands suitable for development. Workshop attendees will also learn how to use NC Forest Service forestry exemption permits to skirt local tree protection ordinances and air quality rules that are supposed to protect us from the hazardous smoke produced when developers pile and burn woody debris under the guise of forestry.
When elected and appointed public servants promote environmental protection rule work-arounds, especially related to developing wetlands — the places that flood when it rains — it’s small wonder many neighborhoods are already suffering from consequences of stormwater.
Andy Wood, director
Coastal Plain Conservation Group
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