Sister city may have ideas Hickory can use

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Published: October 24, 2009

It's interesting to hear that Hickory has a sister city in Germany with similar problems, and encouraging to see that we are trying to learn something from them that might help us here.

I never understood why our leaders don't spend more time looking abroad to see what other countries are doing to solve similar problems, which ones have worked best and which solutions could be applied here with success.

In the article "Same Problems, Different Perspectives," the German delegation described two things that really worked well for them: Apprenticeship programs and time accounts.

Who among the Hickory leaders who attended will investigate these ideas further to see if they have applicability here?

Or is everyone in Hickory thinking the same thing: They're different from us, their laws are different from ours, so nothing they do could possible work here.

Wanda Arnold
Hickory

Nobel Peace Prize an unmitigated travesty

I write to protest the recent award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to a most undeserving individual. It has undercut the prestige of Alfred Nobel's intent.

Apparently, one has only to plan or propose a course of activity and not really accomplish anything. This is a travesty of unmitigated proportions.

That fellow is no Mother Teresa! God save America.

Grimes Byerly
Hickory