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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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    Jones & Blount

    This week’s installment of “Jones & Blount,” a strip focused on the doings down at the General Assembly.

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    VA will fight NC’s plan for border landfill

    A bill is moving through the N.C. General Assembly that would remove obstacles that have prevented creation of the state's largest landfill in rural Camden County, just south of Chesapeake.

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    McManus: Obama, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine

    As President Obama contemplates his many bad options in Syria, he may want to consider the Aspin Doctrine, an argument for intervention abroad made by President Clinton’s first secretary of defense, Les Aspin.

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    ’Man of Steel’ keeps true to his core values

    No matter what you may have read or heard, Superman is not 75 years old this month. He’s at least 77, and more likely 79.

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    Teacher supplement must be kept

    Eliminating the salary supplement for North Carolina teachers who earn a master's degree in their area of teaching is a bad idea. The enactment of the bill could harm education in this state for a long time to come.

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    Safe but afraid no way for Americans to live

    The US government argues that its security measures have derailed terrorist actions and have made us safer. Perhaps, but at what cost? If we end up physically safe, but afraid of expressing our views, are we better off? Many patriots risked or gave their lives to protect us from police states that...

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    On these dependable rocks rests my son's future

    The men in my life didn't just show up; they cared, listened and spent the world's most valuable commodity of time. This Father's Day, I want to thank all the men, my grandfather, coaches, teachers, uncles and others who were not my father but made it possible for me to know what it's like to depend...

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    When wealth is our only hierarchy, so much is lost

    Over the years, religion has played a less dominant role in American public culture. Meanwhile, the rival status hierarchies have fallen away. The meritocratic hierarchy of professional success is pretty much the only one left standing.

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    NC is an unwanted No. 1 in tax rate

    Among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, North Carolina has the highest rate of income tax on the first taxable dollar.

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    The manly GOP takes on abortion – again

    The legislation, even if it clears the House, has no chance in the Senate and would face a certain veto. It also contradicts the long-standing Roe precedent that the Supreme Court has shown no appetite to revisit. And yet House Republicans pressed ahead.

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