January 20, 2009
MIAMI - There is no box on U.S. Census forms that accurately describes Ray Gongora. The Belize-born naturalized citizen grew up in an English-speaking Central American country, a former British colony where African slaves were once sold. He emigrated in 1...
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GREENSBORO — You can bet they’ll think of Barack Obama today at Gillespie Park Elementary. If snow doesn’t cancel school, they’ll watch his inauguration. And you can guarantee they’ll spot their principal, Gail Brady, hear her familiar greeting...
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All Day Obama Inauguration Celebration, 10 a.m., Elks Lodge Old North State No. 87, 2008 Phillips Ave., Greensboro. Hors d’oeuvres. Admission is $5 or 1-2 cans of food for charity. 772-2576. St. James Presbyterian Church has canceled its viewing. Presid...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Poets don't typically write to order. You can't just call them up and ask them for a poem. Not even for an inauguration. But The Associated Press did ask. And they did write. The inauguration of a new president just seems to be a fitting...
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CHICAGO - By some standards, 7-year-old Sasha and 10-year-old Malia Obama are typical American girls who get giddy over ice cream, the promise of a new puppy and the Jonas Brothers. But this week, when they officially become America's first daughters, the...
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CHICAGO - Every year, the dedicated teacher would put together a bulletin board for Black History Month, honoring famous achievers. There was Martin Luther King Jr., of course. Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. George Washingt...
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WASHINGTON - Summer, 1991: An up-and-rising Chicago attorney, not yet 30, interviews for a job as an assistant to the mayor. The job offer is immediate. The attorney calls the next day. Not to accept, but to make a counteroffer: My fiance would like to me...
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WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama lifts his hand from Abraham Lincoln's Bible at his inauguration, he won't be just the new president of the United States. He'll be the face of a new era. He's not the cause of the changing times, either the upheaval in the l...
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Where was the first inauguration? On the balcony of Federal Hall in New York on April 30, 1789, for George Washington. John Adams, the second president, took the oath of office in Philadelphia. The first presidential inauguration in the nation's then-new...
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. steps into his new job as a senator's senator - steeped in its culture and deeply respectful of its role in Washington's intricate balance of power. There couldn't be a more fitting backdrop than the Capitol dome when he is swor...
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January 14, 2009
A roundup of inauguration-related events in the area: Inauguration viewing, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Saint James Presbyterian Church, 820 Ross Ave., Greensboro. 273-6658. Presidential Inauguration Celebration, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, Stallings Ballroom, N.
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January 11, 2009
If North Carolina's newest senator is ever tempted to rise above her raisin', swept away by the privileges and perks of office, the black duffel bag lurking near her desk might bring her back to reality. Tucked inside is a hood designed to protect Sen. Ka...
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December 1, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced a foreign policy team led by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates - both early supporters of a war in Iraq that he opposed and wil...
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Rep. Earl Jones, a Greensboro Democrat heading back to Raleigh for his third term, is gunning for the post of Guilford County caucus chairman. And Scoop has yet to hear of anyone else who wants the job. The caucus chairman serves as a point of contact for...
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November 25, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The State Board of Elections signed off today on North Carolina's election results, approving the numbers in an unusually uneventful canvass that brought no objections. Elections board director Gary Bartlett said in an interview that offi...
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November 20, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — The margin of President-elect Barack Obama's victory in North Carolina is just about finalized. Obama received 14,192 more votes than Republican nominee John McCain after the lawful provisional ballots were added to the totals. (See the v...
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November 18, 2008
GREENSBORO (AP) - North Carolina Senator-elect Kay Hagan has named several members of her senior staff in Washington. Hagan said Tuesday that former campaign manager Crystal King will be chief of staff. Hagan said King has 15 years of political experience...
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November 17, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Political candidates are being held responsible for leftover campaign signs found on public property along roads and sidewalks in one North Carolina city. Officials in Winston-Salem are levying a $50 fine for each sign left on publi...
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November 15, 2008
When it comes to fouling up in the voting booth, it’s hard to be original. Imagine a way to mess up a ballot, and some hapless voter has already beaten you to it. That’s what Guilford County’s Board of Elections had to wade through Friday on its way...
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November 13, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — Despite his successful effort to register tens of thousands of voters this summer, President-elect Obama might not have won North Carolina without the state's new law allowing same-day registration and voting before Election Day. Obama to...
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November 12, 2008
DURHAM (AP) - Internal investigators are examining whether some Durham police officers posted derogatory remarks about President-elect Obama on their MySpace pages. Police Chief Jose Lopez Sr. said the comments did not involve a racial slur, but he wouldn...
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November 11, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE (MCT) — The Fayetteville teacher shown in a YouTube video questioning a fifth-grader's support for John McCain has the backing of the girl's parents, who say the comments were blown out of proportion. The teacher, Diatha D. Harris, has come...
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November 9, 2008
GREENSBORO - You're wrong. No matter what your views on politics, that's what someone thinks about the opinions you cherish, and they're probably saying it at top volume at this exact moment on talk radio or the Internet. When it comes to politics, we liv...
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An absentee ballot cast for the ancestors By Franklin McCain Franklin McCain is one of the four A&T freshmen who took part in the Woolworth's sit-in on Feb. 1, 1960. The students demanded service at a whites-only lunch counter on South Elm Street. Mc...
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In 2007, Greensboro voters chose Yvonne Johnson as the city’s first African American mayor. Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention touched the minds and hearts of millions. In that speech, he outlined his family's pursuit of th...
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