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Editorial:
For nearly two decades, North Carolina Democrats and Republicans have clumsily mud-wrestled as each side tried to put its favorites on a vitally important federal court while blocking the other's picks.
Modified: 11/12/09 06:45:48 AM
Editorial:
Set aside hundreds of billions of dollars for an economic stimulus program and, for sure, some of it will be spent on clunkers - and we're not just talking about cash for rusted-out half-tons.
Modified: 11/12/09 06:46:04 AM
Editorial:
Today, Veterans Day, you might take a moment of quiet reflection at 11 a.m. For it was at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 that the Armistice ending hostilities in World War I was signed.
Modified: 11/11/09 06:52:05 AM
Editorial:
So a notorious anti-American Islamic cleric in Yemen thinks Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is "a hero" who "did the right thing" in gunning down 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas.
Modified: 11/11/09 06:52:23 AM
Editorial:
Do those United States senators who have pronounced the health care reform package approved by the House as "dead on arrival" in the Senate, as one of them put it, really want their legacy on this issue to be that they stopped it?
Modified: 11/10/09 06:29:16 AM
Editorial:
Those who worship at the Jamaat Ibad Ar-Rahman mosque on Fayetteville Street in Durham have some justifiable concerns that repeated incidents at the mosque may be more than random acts.
Modified: 11/10/09 06:29:33 AM
Editorial:
The N.C. Wildlife Federation is going hunting, seeking to gun down undue political influence.
Modified: 11/09/09 09:01:06 AM
Editorial:
This election season Chapel Hill experimented with public campaign financing for mayor and Town Council races - and the early returns are encouraging.
Modified: 11/09/09 06:43:04 AM
Editorial:
Outgoing Raleigh City Council member Philip Isley normally believes in leaving the citizens alone and not burdening people with a lot of rules and regulations.
Modified: 11/09/09 06:42:51 AM
Editorial:
There ought to be a law. A law that would protect voters and taxpayers from candidates who just have too much trouble making up their minds. Is there a recent example? Funny that you ask ....
Modified: 11/08/09 04:48:23 AM
Editorial:
Love and oysters have always been closely linked. When Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, sprang forth from the sea on an oyster shell, she promptly gave birth to Eros and "aphrodisiac" was born.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:48:38 AM
Editorial:
The Golden LEAF Foundation was a good idea and still is.
Modified: 11/08/09 04:48:56 AM
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