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Rural hay making
The N.C. Rural Economic Development Center should build economies, not political debts.
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Seeing the invisible
UNC Professor Gene Nichol examines faces and issues behind North Carolina's rising poverty numbers...
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EDITORIALS
Garner, an All America city
Garner wins All-America city honors with a little help from a local star, Scotty McCreery
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EDITORIALS
Holshouser a trailblazer
Former Gov. Jim Holshouser was a subtle but brilliant man who was a positive force in North Carolina for two generations.
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EDITORIALS
High stakes
You have to give the outlawed sweepstakes industry this: When it comes to opening the lobbying wallet for politicians, including Gov. Pat McCrory, House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President pro-tem Phil Berger, they’re not cheap. These Republican leaders, supposedly no fans of this industry...
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OTHER VIEWS
In North Carolina, not just NSA can track your phone
An investigation the ACLU of North Carolina conducted last year into the policies of more than 40 local law enforcement agencies found that many county sheriffs and police departments in North Carolina routinely seek and obtain location data on individuals from cell phone companies, often without...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Steve Lough: How about ‘Free Fallin’ ’?
I feel it is my civic duty to educate Gov. “I didn’t know that! Pat” McCrory about his favorite song, “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gordon Uscier: Tax facts not relevant
Just two quick points on Marc Landry’s June 12 column “Our dubious No. 1 rank: in tax rate.”
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Chris Lowell: Gun bill will help
We should agree that our existing political system and government are a direct result of taking up arms against Great Britain years ago. This happened because firearms existed then, as now.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Roy Brock: Fiscally feckless
In Marc Landry’s June 12 column, he seemed to hold up California as a much better state than North Carolina when comparing state income taxes his daughter would have paid if she were still living in North Carolina against what she paid in California. Landry should have done more research.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dennis Brown: NCBC making difference
I read in the June 17 N&O that the N.C. legislature proposes to defund the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (“GOP rolls back Democratic era”).
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Robert Dalton: N.C. in tax middle
I read with interest the writing of your new columnist, Marc Landry, in his June 12 piece “Our dubious No. 1 rank: in tax rate.”


