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North Raleigh murder brings sadness

The murder of a mother newly arrived in Raleigh saddens a city that draws many newcomers.

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    New deal for Dorothea Dix property?

    A state House bill opens the prospect for a new purchase or lease agreement for the city of Raleigh to turn the Dorothea Dix hospital property near downtown into a park. While the original deal, nixed by Republicans after Gov. Beverly Perdue left office, was a good one all around, the new proposal...

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    Shanahan doesn't go far enough

    Public Safety Secretary Kieran Shanahan say’s he won’t moonlight doing legal work with his firm. But his law firm’s connection to a lobbying firm started by him and his wife remains troubling.

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    Voller’s follies show Democratic Party’s failures

    The new state Democratic Party chairman is a gaffe machine who undermines his party’s efforts to offer options to Republican policies.

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    After the wind

    The tearing wrought by a tornado near Oklahoma City, the cruel randomness of the death and destruction it delivered, has also torn at Americans in other parts of the country, leaving them full of sympathy and eager to help.

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    Moeser is wrong to blame media for UNC scandals

    The former UNC chancellor should be angry that the athletic and academic scandals happened, but instead he’s upset by the reporting.

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    Don’t move the SBI

    Shifting oversight of the SBI could weaken the state’s ability to investigate public corruption.

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    Keep dogs off Raleigh’s athletic fields

    The City of Raleigh’s parks advisory board has made a sensible and overdue proposal: ban pets from all city-owned athletic facilities and playgrounds.

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    Raleigh theater director remembered

    Raleigh Little Theater’s Haskell Lee Fitz-Simons dies. He is fondly remembered by actors and theater fans.

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    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...

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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...

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