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A recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raises important concerns for residents of North Carolina’s rural communities.
It found that these residents are seeing …
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12/5/19
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It was bound to happen.
After years of eroding the public’s right to know with more than a thousand loopholes, Florida lawmakers now want to amend the public records law to make information …
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12/4/19
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Women know this experience: A sidewalk encounter with a man who makes some kind of coarse advance or comment. It insults, it intimidates. It puts women on the defensive. Do I tell this moron to get …
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12/3/19
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Our lawmakers are developing some of the bad habits of their cohorts in Washington.
This would make amusing theater — at least, for folks who find the impeachment hearings enthralling. Now, …
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12/2/19
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In late 2000, Democratic Gov. Mike Easley and the Democratic majority in the N.C. General Assembly fretted while Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning wrote the third section of a …
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11/27/19
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We’ve seen thousands of sad stories in our time, but the case of a man found in his North Texas apartment three years after his death ranks right up there as one of the saddest.
Ronald Wayne …
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11/26/19
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North Carolina has quietly been beefing up the agency that oversees dams in the state, and with good reason.
The state ranks No. 2 in the country in the number of dams in risky condition in places …
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11/25/19
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Shining a spotlight on opaque hospital billing structures may not be a miracle cure for the rising cost of health care. But medical cost transparency is worth pursuing on principle, alone.
No one …
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11/22/19
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Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration appear to be making significant progress on 737 MAX safety. But much work remains to improve federal policy guiding aircraft …
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11/21/19
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For the first time in U.S. history, an American war has lasted long enough to see a child born at the start of hostilities reach fighting age. Our military personnel have been in Afghanistan — …
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11/20/19
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International travelers grudgingly accept that their cellphones or laptops might be handled and given a cursory inspection at an airport or border crossing. But some travelers, including U.S. …
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11/19/19
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It’s a strange paradox that, while today’s young people seem so much more enlightened than many of their elders in terms of technology, social progress and commonsense concern for the environment …
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11/18/19
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