Editorials
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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EDITORIALS
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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EDITORIALS
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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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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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.


