Barry Saunders
Barry Saunders
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: My unexpected SC stop, thanks to a police drug operation
While driving through South Carolina on Thursday night, I got temporarily stopped thanks to a drug interdiction operation called Operation Rolling Thunder.
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Saunders: I’m not alone in my ire against improper language
Most of you, though, are as distressed as I am when you hear misconjugated verbs and other grammatical faux pas from people who should know better.
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Saunders: Less than $20 in your account? Withdraw it at some ATMs
For the past several years, it would have been impossible to get $10 from a bank automated teller machine, since they were only stocked with $20s. But PNC Bank has just finished installing 159 "smart" ATMs across North Carolina. And Chase ATMs even offer pennies.
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Saunders: From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, wonderful life lessons in growing up
In his new book “Sasquatch in the Paint,” basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar aims to help middle schoolers find their identity.
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Saunders: Ban the book, bring on the teens
The Randolph County school board must be playing mind games by banning “Invisible Man.”
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Saunders: Searching for answers in lethal Charlotte confrontation
I know it's hard for some, but try to put yourself in the shoes of Jonathan Ferrell, the former college football player shot after wrecking his car in Charlotte.
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Saunders: The excellent overseas adventure of two Triangle nonagenarians
Even a rental car engulfed in flames couldn't keep a 91-year-old Chapel Hill man and a 93-year-old Durham man from taking a fun - and meaningful - trip together.
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Saunders: Local color makes for good reading
Two local writers make good use of Triangle landmarks to increase their new books’ appeal.
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Saunders: Random violence makes us all afraid
My schoolmate from Rockingham didn't want to talk, and I understood. His son was killed four days ago -- kidnapped, robbed and shot after stopping at a gas station in Fayetteville to ask for directions.
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Saunders: It’s not enough just to have a dream you must act on it, too
Did nobody in Southeast Raleigh have a dream that possibly they could build their own grocery store when others left the area last year?

