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Road Worrier: Speed-loving legislators would lift NC limit to 75 mph
The House will review Senate legislation to raise the top speed limit on some North Carolina highways. The state’s chief traffic engineer says DOT would OK the 75 mph limit only where studies show it is safe.
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: Driver seems to hit geese on purpose, stirs anger
Some who witnessed a vehicle hitting geese on Father’s Day hope that someone got the license number and called authorities. But a person striking a goose doesn’t have to stop, the Wildlife Resources Commission says.
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: An act of help – and a response of ingratitude
When the cops were coming for a drunk stranger, Richard Spandau gave the man a ride home. Too bad the man wasn’t appreciative.
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JOSH SHAFFER
Shaffer: Brier Creek pet cemetery abandoned to mud and weeds
After uprooting and moving the graves of 500 animals, Pet Rest Cemetery shut down and surrendered the plots to the elements. But is a cemetery something you can close? It's not like its a laundromat.
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JOHN DRESCHER
Drescher: Open files of political appointees
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory wants to raise the number of political employees from 1,000 to 1,500. NC citizens should get access to their hiring, firing and performance reviews.
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: A musician misses his dad, and “Color Him Father” is born
As a teen growing up in Wadesboro, Richard Spencer longed for his missing father. He grew up to write the Grammy-winning song “Color Him Father.”
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: 50 years ago, a death in Mississippi and a defining story of the Civil Rights Movement
After Medgar Evers was shot and killed at his Mississippi home, Claude Sitton wrote a story for The New York Times that made the racial situation in the South real for the rest of the nation.
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ROAD WORRIER
Road Worrier: New transportation money formula could doom Triangle trains
Gov. Pat McCrory’s proposed Strategic Mobility Formula, zipping through the legislature, appears destined to steer more money to highways and freight railroads – and less to regional transit and Amtrak service.
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BARRY SAUNDERS
Saunders: Big Brother would surely be bored
If the National Security Administration were to hit the replay button on a week’s worth of our recorded telephone conversations, we would be mortified by the mundanity.
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JOSH SHAFFER
Shaffer: 2-year-old taekwondo champ snaps board
Lydia Miller only recently learned to walk. But she's advancing already in the fierce world of taekwondo, breaking her first wooden board using the hammer fist technique. As far as anyone can tell, she is the youngest fighter anywhere practicing the ancient Korean art.
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JOHN DRESCHER
Drescher: Publisher fights to keep public notices in newspapers
A third-generation newspaperman says the notices keep government open and accountable.
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