Commentary on Current Events of Interest to Columbus, and the Surrounding Counties of NC
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On a daily basis, I feel sorry for some folks. In this particular case, it was a lady in a much larger city, in another part of the state. As the saying goes, she ain’t [Read More]
It had been a particularly frustrating week piled on top of another similarly pestiferous seven days. I did beat the sun to the draw on that lovely spring Saturday morning, but the coming days didn’t [Read More]
Since I got wrapped halfway around a tree whilst canoeing out of our house during Hurricane Matthew, my back has never quite been the same. Sometimes it’s even less the same than others, if you [Read More]
This week Jefferson has no guest in the studio. This week Jefferson has commentary on various local topics including the Columbus County Sheriff’s Race. THE COLUMBUS CONNECTION with Jefferson Weaver is a weekly public affairs program [Read More]
They know, just as surely as if they had a calendar. Their tails wag more; some bounce at the sight of any truck. Others bay constantly, even more than a normal hound whose life revolves [Read More]
The weather front came in the night, dropping temperatures thirty degrees in a matter of hours, announcing the onset of real fall weather with a curtain of blowing, cold rain. It was the type of [Read More]
This week on The Columbus Connection Jefferson has no in-studio guest. Instead, this week Jefferson gives his thoughts and opinions on various topics. THE COLUMBUS CONNECTION with Jefferson Weaver is a weekly public affairs program produced [Read More]
We always remember Sept. 11, 2001, as well we should. I just wish we could remember Sept. 12 of the same year. While firefighters, EMS, search teams, police officers and volunteers were pawing their way [Read More]
Bobby came to us in the middle of summer, after a sweet young lady with a big heart found him and a very business-like beagle on an area highway. The beagle was quickly rehomed, since [Read More]
The harvester was cutting valleys through corn that had reached epic heights, despite a dry summer. Dust rose yellow-red in the sunset, as a tractor with a bushhog busily cut the ends of the stalks [Read More]
Paint covers some of the marks. Others are barely visible behind moss, mold and dust. In some cases, the lines where the waters rose are worn like battle scars, reminders of the times the water [Read More]
I am angry, and you should be, too. In the past few weeks, seven law enforcement officers in North Carolina have been shot. Two were killed, including Deputy Ned Byrd. Early Friday, Byrd was on [Read More]
I hate August. Not my dear friend and brother in Christ by the same name. Thankfully, that August was born in July. For him I have nothing but fraternal love and respect.The month, however, is [Read More]
Normally, my column carries some biblically-inspired message, but a Second Amendment issue here in Columbus County has caught my attention. Let me be clear from the beginning. We don’t live in a 1950s sitcom, and [Read More]
The recent Supreme Court decision on Roe vs. Wade handed the responsibility for abortion law back to the states, where it should have been in the first case. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is there a [Read More]
I use to be one of those people who judged. I had an opinion for every circumstance and every fault that a person may have. I was a teenager who was young and foolish, who [Read More]
Commentary on Current Events of Interest to Columbus, and the Surrounding Counties of NC
