Talk:Morganton, North Carolina

message: I've got reports of a chemical plant explosion in the past few minutes.  Can't find a source, but if you have one, it's article updating time.  Thanks! --bbatsell | « give me a ring » 19:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chemical plant explosion?

message: This article glorifies the city and only desribes places around it in the main page.  I made a few changes to it to try and make it less biased but there is still alot of work that needs to be done on it. 70.148.69.92 21:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glorified 

message: Is it wholly necessary to list San Francisco on the Nearby Cities bit?  71.70.239.4 (talk) 02:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nearby Cities

message: per wp:lead, the lead should have content that appears later in the article.  The info about Joara only appears in the lead. Also shouldn't that be referred to in the past tense?
In addition, I am wondering about the inclusion of the little league team.  Is that really important enough for an article about the city?  Surely there has been more important events in its history that trumps this.  They didn't even make the final. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 03:24, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joara and little league 

message: She is probably one of the most famous or notorious people in Morganton history. I can't understand why she and several other famous people from Morganton have been taken off WIKI when you editors let Paige Summers stay on the site and she is little more than a prostitute and certainly less famous than many of the others. Paige summers was only a playmate Joann was in Playboy and in Time Magazine and the front page of almost every newspaper in the country when she was arrested.
::Welcome to Wikipedia!  My suggestion is to first create a separate article for the subject.  That is not to say that the subject cannot be included in a list of famous residents (see wp:redlink), but any questions of notability would most likely be answered if she had her own established article.  --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 22:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joann Denton 

message: She was not the first woman hanged in NC. She likely was not even the first white woman hanged in NC. An article published by UNC and referenced in this very page contains argument that at least nine women, blacks and whites, died by either hanging or being burned at the stake prior to Frankie's execution. 24.176.93.130 (talk) 15:39, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frankie Silver 

message: That Morganton should currently be regarded as the 10th best place in the country to raise a family is an atrocious distortion. And that is putting it gently. This report from Reader's Digest was based on the results of a parent poll they conducted in the mid-eighties, if my memory serves. The respondents were asked not to name towns they believed were excellent places to raise a family, but to scale the importance of certain circumstances they believed would make for an ideal place to do so. From there, RD found correlating statistical data from selected metropolitan areas across the country and produced a list ranked by percent match. I wish I could tell you the exact volume in which their list first included Morganton, or even the most recent occurrence, for that matter; Morganton might have even been in that list across multiple years. I don't know. But it is apparent that the contributor of this information also did not know, as there is no reference given in the Morganton article. The Catawba County Economic Development Commission still keeps a scan of the article to share through their website, and local EDCs and Chambers of Commerce cannot seem to cease touting some perceived once-greatness of the area based on this single, magnificent mention. 
The area has become heavily deindustrialized over the last 20 years, during which time the unemployment rate in Burke County has doubled. Enrollment in Burke County public schools is declining. I'd have you take note of a current poll conducted by the Hickory Daily Record, which shows that more than a third of its 400+ respondents indicated that they would simply up and leave the area, if they were able, because they believe there is nothing here for them. Another 28 percent of the respondents said the area would be ok if only there were more jobs. 
I am removing this little Reader's Digest tidbit from the Morganton article, and will continue to monitor the article for its reintroduction - as I'm quite certain is likely - unless another user can show that some reputable organization has, within the last decade, placed Burke County back on a map of places folks should believe their children will be able to succeed and thrive. 24.176.93.130 (talk) 15:39, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading Reader's Digest mention 

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