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FDA will rule none too soon on e-cigarette regulations
At stake is a tobacco industry with over $35 billion in annual profits, deep political clout and a product that, when used as directed, kills 50 percent of its users.
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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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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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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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Obama’s first-term chickens coming home to roost
Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph - not even the first page - of the account of the Obama administration in the history books.
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Managed-care Medicaid a proven failure when NC already succeeding
Managed-care companies know that actuarial risks are best spread over a wide population where healthier, covered lives cost less, freeing resources for the sickest. Medicaid expansion, being rethought in all states except ours, is key to increasing the risk pool. We failed.
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Burr's bill would put much-needed track and trace on our medicine
More than 30 states have disparate laws to track drugs along the supply chain. As a result, states with more relaxed laws inevitably attract bad actors who seek to introduce illegitimate products into the distribution chain. A national system is desperately needed.
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Unbelievably, politicians play politics with public health
While air quality has improved in the 40 years since Congress passed the Clean Air Act, 40 percent of Americans still live in communities with unsafe levels of pollution. I find it hard to understand why elected officials in Raleigh and Washington can knowingly threaten decades of gains to secure...
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What our changing military mission means for NC and the country
The Pentagon must decide how to continue with peacekeeping and state-building operations like Kosovo as major wars come to an end and budgets fall.
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OTHER VIEWS
How school vouchers successfully customize education, change lives
The debate over a private learning option for poor schoolchildren in North Carolina has a familiar ring to it because Florida faced similar fears a dozen years ago. But a targeted and accountable scholarship can strengthen our commitment to equal educational opportunity by giving more tools to the...
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage from Obama
Overhyping Benghazi will only diminish the importance of the scandal. Focusing on the political effects plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming this is partisan politics. Let the facts speak for themselves. They are damning enough.
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