As a proud student at Elon College, a private university, I am responsible for a large portion of the cost of attendance. Perhaps these students should settle for 33.6 percent responsibility of the cost, which is where South Carolina settles in at being 25th in the nation. Perhaps the Stars and Stripes that I proudly served under has a different meaning to Native Americans whose ancestors were sent on the Trail of Tears. Historians such as Shelby Foote understand this, even if the modern-day carpetbaggers who control North Carolina's major newspapers do not. As a subscriber for over 30 years, I have seen The Observer in recent years seem to lose its public purpose by failing to report equally on both sides of issues - most noticeably on the arena and zoning.
Subscribers object to paying for a predisposed viewpoint.
Provide full information from all sides, and we can do the thinking. As for service, we just can't seem to get a paper delivered on time anymore. We're reading the morning newspaper in the afternoon. Surely then, customer service won't have to tell us the carrier overslept again. You've lived in Davidson or the surrounding areas for all your life.