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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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Chipping away at state workers' job security
North Carolina’s state employees have an appeals process in case of firing, and enjoy of measure of job security which many value as a perk to balance stagnant wages. Most work hard, but Republicans seem to enjoy making state workers targets of criticism. Now proposals coming up in the General Assembly...
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EDITORIALS
God’s best berry
Every spring nature decrees that one’s fancy shall turn to pleasant thoughts of birds and butterflies, the opening of flowers, the warm caress of sunshine, fishing and strawberries, not necessarily in that order. As has been said: “Doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but doubtless...
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EDITORIALS
Dwane Powell: The monstrous mastopus has its hands in everything
The N&O’s former cartoonist just couldn’t sit out this legislative session, not with all the fun things to draw. He’ll be offering his view every Sunday in The N&O during the session. Here’s this week’s.
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NED BARNETT
Barnett: The real scandal: Political gridlock
Congressional Republican calls to investigate the Obama administration continue a failure to address the nation’s real problems.
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EDITORIALS
Some bad bills gone, some survive
A deadline for legislation passes, and this turbulent session of the General Assembly has produced decidedly mixed results. There's still time to turn away some bad ideas, if lawmakers will have the courage to not rush to judgment.
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EDITORIALS
Emancipation Proclamation is blueprint for freedom
The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is on display at the NC Museum of History. North Carolinians, particularly young North Carolinians, need to see it.
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OTHER VIEWS
The fantasy of the clean-water fairy
Much discussion, negotiation and compromise produced considerable agreement on goals and strategies for cleaning up Jordan Lake. An NC Senate bill would destroy years of work.
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OTHER VIEWS
Will: Our lying eyes and Obama's loss of trust
Obama’s scandals are interlocking and overlapping in ways that drain his authority. Everything he advocates requires Americans to lavish on government something his administration, and big government generally, undermines – trust.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Eve Shy: McCrory fooled us
My condolences to the few remaining moderate N.C. Republicans and some Democrats who now know that Gov. Pat McCrory, with his moderate-sounding ideas while campaigning, had a very conservative agenda hidden in his own Trojan Horse.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Kirk Whorf: Hark the voters
Do you even read your editorials before you publish them? The May 15 editorial “Arresting the messengers” suggested that members of the legislature should listen to a few hundred protesters and possibly change their positions on any one of a number of bills. Really? Isn’t this...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Alan Swanstrom: Entire Internet
So the General Assembly through SB 327 wants to restrict Internet sales of automobiles to protect a retail dealer franchise system (and the N.C. automobile dealers campaign contributions and well-funded lobby).
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